Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Plenty of vacant office space in Ballston/Rosslyn corridor. The Career Center can move there.

So can the library.

Have you been to the Career Center? I don't think so, or you wouldn't be suggesting that they put in a woodshop, automotive repair bays, barn (with horses), daycare, and commercial kitchen in the middle of some random office building in Rosslyn.

What exactly do you think technical education is?

Yes, I've seen this "oh, just move it to an office building" suggestion a few times. People really have no idea how extensive the facility is. I was surprised when my DD first took an animal care class there. I highly recommend signing your kids up for one of the enrichment classes they offer. They have classes on Saturdays for, I think, 3rd grade and up during the school year and longer classes in the summer -- https://careercenter.apsva.us/summer-enrichment-2017/

Anonymous wrote:Plenty of vacant office space in Ballston/Rosslyn corridor. The Career Center can move there.

So can the library.

Have you been to the Career Center? I don't think so, or you wouldn't be suggesting that they put in a woodshop, automotive repair bays, barn (with horses), daycare, and commercial kitchen in the middle of some random office building in Rosslyn.

What exactly do you think technical education is?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dear South Arlington,

#GROWSOMEBALLS

Unless you live in Glen Carlyn. Then you should STFU, because you were never going to get your peaceful bird watching sanctuary. Enjoy that bus depot! It'll be great for both traffic and pollution, and certainly better than a school would've been for your property values and mine. You are SO SMART!!

I have no idea what this response is supposed to mean.

Anonymous wrote:Dear South Arlington,

#GROWSOMEBALLS

Unless you live in Glen Carlyn. Then you should STFU, because you were never going to get your peaceful bird watching sanctuary. Enjoy that bus depot! It'll be great for both traffic and pollution, and certainly better than a school would've been for your property values and mine. You are SO SMART!!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:17:32 here. We bought near my aging parents (which was the goal, school zoning aside), but given the prices everywhere in Arlington it is hard to define any of it as "affordable."

I need to drive around some of these areas bc I am having a hard time figuring out where all this housing is concentrated.

Step 1: go to south Arlington
Step 2: look for old apartment buildings on Columbia Pike
Step 3: get an ice cream from the broiler

A different PP here (one of the Alcova Heights posters). The ice cream machine at the Broiler is broken! We went in for ice cream recently for the first time in ages, and the machine is out of order. No ice cream for us!

Anonymous wrote:Plenty of vacant office space in Ballston/Rosslyn corridor. The Career Center can move there.

So can the library.

Look I am all for a 4th high school and may be fine with the career center location but if you want low income children to succeed do not take away their libraries. The Columbia Pike library has the second most use in the county after Central. Sure move it elsewhere where there is a need (maybe into empty space in Arlington Mill where they wanted to put it around 8 years ago) but don't take a heavily used resource from S Arlington and put it in the north. Maybe the career center could move to the R/B corridor if the county labs can actually move there. Teenagers can get around more easily than young kids and it pulls from all over the county.

Also I think some people are in denial about the usefulnesss of trade and technical skills. I heard an interview recently with a MD state politician who is an electrician and did an apprenticeship after high school. He was taking about being 23 and making 80k (more than 5 years ago) and being debt-free while his friends were graduating college searching for entry-level jobs with no debt. Some of those skilled trades are going to be slower to be replaced by robots too. The career center has great programs. Just food for thought.

WTF, they had a land swap in the works with Arlington cemetery , and the land was designated for "public uses" like bus storage or a FREAKING MUSEUM???? And there was the talk about the Buck site being for the exact same thing. Why is there no efforts for finding a site for the 4th high school???

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/army-county-break-off-land-swap-talks-over-arlington-cemetery-expansion/2017/06/16/20e8372c-52a8-11e7-be25-3a519335381c_story.html

I'm glad the swap fell through, as it distracts their resources from the real problems the county faces, you know MUSUEM SHORTAGE.

The big issue here is the lack of vision by the SB and Murphy. The hybrid option is a bandaid that costs money and time.
The county projects 41,500 children age 0-14 by 2030 !! That's 10,000 more than 2022. They have to go to school, and APS must start on the 4th comprehensive HS now, not after 2022, because if they wait, they will have crammed literally thousands of kids in every nook, and simply no space to build anything anywhere without resorting to "night shift" and "online" learning, while construction is going on, when it would have been much easier to start building a decade earlier.

Plenty of vacant office space in Ballston/Rosslyn corridor. The Career Center can move there.

So can the library.

Anonymous wrote:17:32 here. We bought near my aging parents (which was the goal, school zoning aside), but given the prices everywhere in Arlington it is hard to define any of it as "affordable."

I need to drive around some of these areas bc I am having a hard time figuring out where all this housing is concentrated.

Step 1: go to south Arlington
Step 2: look for old apartment buildings on Columbia Pike
Step 3: get an ice cream from the broiler

17:32 here. We bought near my aging parents (which was the goal, school zoning aside), but given the prices everywhere in Arlington it is hard to define any of it as "affordable."

I need to drive around some of these areas bc I am having a hard time figuring out where all this housing is concentrated.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone please elaborate on where exactly all this low SES housing is, exactly? I recently moved back to Arlington and shopped for homes, and real estate values seem very high even in South Arlington/areas zoned for Wakefield. Even places that used to be borderline dodgy are pretty pricey ($700k townhomes by Nauck!?)! There are newish yuppie apartments in places that I remember as pretty iffy.

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Yep, you can spend 700k for your home and send your kid to a GS 3. I'm shocked this is coming to a head.
Affordable housing is concentrated around Columbia Pike ( especially past 4 mile run) and 50 at George Mason. They are sprinkled everywhere else, but not as concentrated.
Also, the county releases a bunch of bs numbers about units ( being fewer than there really are). They don't county massive complexes like Barcroft. It's ridiculous.

There are also ordinary non-AH lower income areas with SFHs that are either owned or rented out. I live in Nauck and the area on the western side of Glebe and the eastern end of Columbia Pike seem generally more low income. I think a lot of the area close to Wakefield and in the Four Mile Run area as well. My own street is decidedly mixed - several $1m new homes interspersed between genuinely tiny and/or rundown older houses. The gentrifiers are coming for better or for worse, but it's a slow process.

Anonymous wrote:Can someone please elaborate on where exactly all this low SES housing is, exactly? I recently moved back to Arlington and shopped for homes, and real estate values seem very high even in South Arlington/areas zoned for Wakefield. Even places that used to be borderline dodgy are pretty pricey ($700k townhomes by Nauck!?)! There are newish yuppie apartments in places that I remember as pretty iffy.

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Yep, you can spend 700k for your home and send your kid to a GS 3. I'm shocked this is coming to a head.
Affordable housing is concentrated around Columbia Pike ( especially past 4 mile run) and 50 at George Mason. They are sprinkled everywhere else, but not as concentrated.
Also, the county releases a bunch of bs numbers about units ( being fewer than there really are). They don't county massive complexes like Barcroft. It's ridiculous.

Can someone please elaborate on where exactly all this low SES housing is, exactly? I recently moved back to Arlington and shopped for homes, and real estate values seem very high even in South Arlington/areas zoned for Wakefield. Even places that used to be borderline dodgy are pretty pricey ($700k townhomes by Nauck!?)! There are newish yuppie apartments in places that I remember as pretty iffy.

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Dear South Arlington,

#GROWSOMEBALLS