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Anonymous wrote:Tiny homes are a waste of land. What is the difference between tiny homes compared to townhouses and condos? People that demand it are just people who can't afford the land demanding their own land.

No they are not. It's an affordable option for people that want single family homes. You can fit a tiny home with a cute backyard on smaller lots.

You are not understanding that it is the land that is expensive. If you go to places with cheap land, like texas, then they are building small single family homes. When land is expensive, then townhouse or condo is how you get a little bit more affordable.

Nobody is going to build a $200k tiny house on a $800k lot.

There's no reason to build a tiny house on a 2 acre lot. That's why tiny houses are impractical until the minimum lot size changes.

There are plenty of places in NOVA with smaller minimum lot sizes. R-4 is a very common zoning category for land in Fairfax. That only requires a quarter acre for lots.

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Anonymous wrote:Tiny homes are a waste of land. What is the difference between tiny homes compared to townhouses and condos? People that demand it are just people who can't afford the land demanding their own land.

No they are not. It's an affordable option for people that want single family homes. You can fit a tiny home with a cute backyard on smaller lots.

You are not understanding that it is the land that is expensive. If you go to places with cheap land, like texas, then they are building small single family homes. When land is expensive, then townhouse or condo is how you get a little bit more affordable.

Nobody is going to build a $200k tiny house on a $800k lot.

There's no reason to build a tiny house on a 2 acre lot. That's why tiny houses are impractical until the minimum lot size changes.

There are plenty of places in NOVA with smaller minimum lot sizes. R-4 is a very common zoning category for land in Fairfax. That only requires a quarter acre for lots.

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Anonymous wrote:Tiny homes are a waste of land. What is the difference between tiny homes compared to townhouses and condos? People that demand it are just people who can't afford the land demanding their own land.

No they are not. It's an affordable option for people that want single family homes. You can fit a tiny home with a cute backyard on smaller lots.

You are not understanding that it is the land that is expensive. If you go to places with cheap land, like texas, then they are building small single family homes. When land is expensive, then townhouse or condo is how you get a little bit more affordable.

Nobody is going to build a $200k tiny house on a $800k lot.

There's no reason to build a tiny house on a 2 acre lot. That's why tiny houses are impractical until the minimum lot size changes.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t have an issue with trailer parks. I’d rather them than apartments.

Or people sleeping in tents . . .

Unhoused people have a right to put up tents on sidewalks. Where is your humanity?

And where do they go to the bathroom and throw away their garbage? On your lawn?

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t have an issue with trailer parks. I’d rather them than apartments.

Or people sleeping in tents . . .

Unhoused people have a right to put up tents on sidewalks. Where is your humanity?

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Anonymous wrote:Tiny homes are a waste of land. What is the difference between tiny homes compared to townhouses and condos? People that demand it are just people who can't afford the land demanding their own land.

No they are not. It's an affordable option for people that want single family homes. You can fit a tiny home with a cute backyard on smaller lots.

You are not understanding that it is the land that is expensive. If you go to places with cheap land, like texas, then they are building small single family homes. When land is expensive, then townhouse or condo is how you get a little bit more affordable.

Nobody is going to build a $200k tiny house on a $800k lot.

Lots are not 800k in Virginia almost everwhere in Virginia outside of Arlington, Alexandria and certain areas of Fairfax county. You can buy buildable lots in PWC for 100-200k. Condos are a trap that destroy wealth for homeowners. There are plenty of affordable areas in Northern Virginia and Virginia as a whole. Eliminating zoning to promote “affordability” because a handful of the most desirable zip codes on Northern Virginia are expensive does not make sense. They will never be affordable to the average person and changing the zoning rules to encourage the everyone to move to a small number of desirable locations will destroy what makes the locations desirable to begin with.

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Anonymous wrote:Tiny homes are a waste of land. What is the difference between tiny homes compared to townhouses and condos? People that demand it are just people who can't afford the land demanding their own land.

No they are not. It's an affordable option for people that want single family homes. You can fit a tiny home with a cute backyard on smaller lots.

You are not understanding that it is the land that is expensive. If you go to places with cheap land, like texas, then they are building small single family homes. When land is expensive, then townhouse or condo is how you get a little bit more affordable.

Nobody is going to build a $200k tiny house on a $800k lot.

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Anonymous wrote:Tiny homes are a waste of land. What is the difference between tiny homes compared to townhouses and condos? People that demand it are just people who can't afford the land demanding their own land.

No they are not. It's an affordable option for people that want single family homes. You can fit a tiny home with a cute backyard on smaller lots.

Also tiny homes often have better construction than a trailer.

What I want to see are ways to have a tiny home be legal.

Anonymous wrote:Tiny homes are a waste of land. What is the difference between tiny homes compared to townhouses and condos? People that demand it are just people who can't afford the land demanding their own land.

No they are not. It's an affordable option for people that want single family homes. You can fit a tiny home with a cute backyard on smaller lots.

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Anonymous wrote:I think a little tiny home community would be amazing!

OP here, I have nothing wrong wrong with tiny homes and I think they can be a great option for some people to become a homeowner. What I don't agree with is mandating a minimum lot size or 5,000 sq feet statewide. There are legitimate policy reasons why counties have larger minimum lot sizes in certain areas. It could be for environmental reasons, natural disaster risk or infrastructure limitations, or fiscal reasons, etc. The VA state legislature actual passed a great law in 2025 that allows localities to include tiny homes as policy goal in the comprehensive plan.

So sad you don’t get to control other people’s property.

So under your logic my neighbor has the right to flood my property by paving their entire property? Your simplistic understanding of property rights does not reflect the reality of living in a society where decision impact other people.

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Anonymous wrote:I think a little tiny home community would be amazing!

OP here, I have nothing wrong wrong with tiny homes and I think they can be a great option for some people to become a homeowner. What I don't agree with is mandating a minimum lot size or 5,000 sq feet statewide. There are legitimate policy reasons why counties have larger minimum lot sizes in certain areas. It could be for environmental reasons, natural disaster risk or infrastructure limitations, or fiscal reasons, etc. The VA state legislature actual passed a great law in 2025 that allows localities to include tiny homes as policy goal in the comprehensive plan.

So sad you don’t get to control other people’s property.

Tiny homes are a waste of land. What is the difference between tiny homes compared to townhouses and condos? People that demand it are just people who can't afford the land demanding their own land.

Anonymous wrote:I think a little tiny home community would be amazing!

OP here, I have nothing wrong wrong with tiny homes and I think they can be a great option for some people to become a homeowner. What I don't agree with is mandating a minimum lot size or 5,000 sq feet statewide. There are legitimate policy reasons why counties have larger minimum lot sizes in certain areas. It could be for environmental reasons, natural disaster risk or infrastructure limitations, or fiscal reasons, etc. The VA state legislature actual passed a great law in 2025 that allows localities to include tiny homes as policy goal in the comprehensive plan.

Anonymous wrote:Manufactured housing is a proven, known, demonstrably sound pathway to economic security. I grew up in a city that had every type of imaginable dwelling, from 1800s mansions to 1980s colonials/middle class residential neighborhoods to apartment complexes to manufactured housing neighborhoods. We somehow managed to make a go of it, and snooty VA can deal, too. If you don’t like, it, you can move.

Why did you leave?