Recent comments in /f/rva

rvafun100 t1_j2ybz6n wrote

Reply to comment by airquotesNotAtWork in Your City Is the Most Livable in America, Until We Publish This Article About It by ValancourtB

Cheap and massive 5/1s are what corporate ‘developers’ are focused on because they have the highest margins and arguably lead to the most housing units/density in the shortest amount of time. However, the development of high-end townhomes is in fact happening in the areas listed above (and many not mentioned and even many more in the pipeline). They are not illegal by any means, and zoning laws are not preventing them from being built as so many falsely state…have a look at the 2600 block of Kensington Ave as just one example.

1

STREAMOFCONSCIOUSN3S t1_j2y6nt6 wrote

Reply to comment by goodsam2 in Your City Is the Most Livable in America, Until We Publish This Article About It by ValancourtB

> Explain to me how we have the fan and entry price is twice as high as the suburbs and has a worse school long term.

Because elementary schools pull from a smaller area than middle and high schools. For elementary, students come from just the Fan, but for MS and HS they also come from impoverished areas surrounding the Fan. Same scenario is true of Tuckahoe Elementary in Henrico county.

2

Scuzwheedl0r t1_j2y4gfd wrote

Reply to comment by goodsam2 in Your City Is the Most Livable in America, Until We Publish This Article About It by ValancourtB

I totally agree that these mid-density housing options are excellent for maintaining a smaller land base while still providing units. I know a few of them have gone up in Eugene in the past few years, it just seems the backlog of demand has really outstripped supply.

Like the recent infrastructure bill that has been sorely needed, we need some kind of construction subsidization bill to get people in reasonable mortgages. I think the amount of stability for a family that ownership provides will create huge economic benefits down the line. And even though it may hurt my own home value, its a hit i'm willing to take to solve this overall problem. I would like to imagine others would as well, but NIMBY has never been more specifically applicable than with this problem!

1

goodsam2 t1_j2y3hlr wrote

Reply to comment by xDocFearx in Your City Is the Most Livable in America, Until We Publish This Article About It by ValancourtB

To me I think it's a unhappy medium of many things, the mall is nice but it's annoying to get there and you always pay for parking.

It's not on anything resembling a grid anywhere so all the roads criss cross. Confusing names drive on 3 streets named rugby that intersect.

Charlottesville has legitimately worse traffic than Richmond despite being 1/4 the size.

They do pull better than you would reckon just looking at metrics concert wise what they do.

Some neat historical stuff, UVA has some nice amenities though I don't like the snootiness of a lot of it.

8

goodsam2 t1_j2y377k wrote

Reply to comment by STREAMOFCONSCIOUSN3S in Your City Is the Most Livable in America, Until We Publish This Article About It by ValancourtB

>What about middle and high school?

It's moving up from the bottom.

>The sad fact is that as long as you have education-focused parents with the means (wealth) to remove themselves from poor students, they will continue to do so, and currently that means moving away from the poor students.

Which means not moving into the suburbs where poverty has been rising faster than urban areas for 2 decades.

Explain to me how we have the fan and entry price is twice as high as the suburbs and has a worse school long term.

>Implementing school choice would remove the necessity of moving away.

I mean yes but also what level of choice are we talking about here. I think we need to keep them in public schools.

1