Comments on: Morning Notes

By: Captain_Obvious

Captain_Obvious — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 14:46:50 +0000

No I didn’t, you haven’t proven anyone wrong. In fact, you have done nothing to support your own case. Get over it already and just accept that you live in a suburban area.

By: Deadite

Deadite — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 14:43:00 +0000

Dude, you lost the argument. You wanted quantitative reasoning and I gave it to you. You wanted qualitative reasoning and I gave it to you. Just admit that you’re too stubborn to admit you’re wrong and GTFO.

By: Sparky

Sparky — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 03:15:21 +0000

The county should greatly up zone the property (5 small single family lots) to increase its value many times because the owner evicted the tenants and let the houses decay on purpose to make it an eyesore? No. Bad precedent unless you want to encourage boarded up buildings. Also bad precedent to approve an 11 1/2 story building where 6 is appropriate. The zoning on Lee Highway does permit more than this. Approving this building would in effect set 11 1/2 + stories as the norm for Lee Highway. The building with MOMs is OK–that’s where Bergmann’s is located.

By: Arlingtonian

Arlingtonian — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 02:22:46 +0000

Arlington needs a Walmart, not a grocery store. A Walmart would create competition which would reduce the excessive prices that the County’s groceries and supermarkets now inflict on the County’s residents. However, the County government is doing nothing to encourage Walmart to come here. The government offers all sorts of benefits for affordable housing, but does nothing for affordable food.

By: Captain_Obvious

Captain_Obvious — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 01:18:02 +0000

@d-rax, yea…urban areas are typically big, why don’t you just look at the top population density figures…

By: Captain_Obvious

Captain_Obvious — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 01:16:30 +0000

@d-rax, wow, your map example is 1 block in Ballston. What small-mindedness.

By: Captain_Obvious

Captain_Obvious — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 01:14:52 +0000

really? Then how do places become urban? Because there must be some sort of attraction to the place. Its usually jobs, jobs that tend to congregate in the same area and become a central business district…like Wall Street or K St.

By: Captain_Obvious

Captain_Obvious — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 01:13:13 +0000

That’s another facet of an urban area, residential areas.

By: Captain_Obvious

Captain_Obvious — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 01:10:59 +0000

McLean has a metro, bus lines, jobs, retail, etc., so yea, it kinda is like Arlington, but a little quieter. I’ve lived in Arlington, DC, and McLean so I think I know what I’m talking about.
Funny, you call me a troll when your comments have been copy and pasted from wikipedia.
And boom, now you’re done.

By: Hollywood

Hollywood — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 23:36:43 +0000

The same could be said of the streetcar. We should probably not go forward with that either, right Drax?