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Old 02-07-2014, 05:01 PM
 
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In Fairfax County VA rents for apartments are very high and many middle class people can't afford housing. So the county gave away about one hundred acres of woods previously used as a park and gave it to a developer for free to develop so called workplace housing. The apartments will be low cost and designed for people like Teachers, Fire Employees and local government staff who live nearby.

The park land will be clear-cut and the land used for a high density development of hundreds of apartments.

It is near mass transit and near highways and retail and other apartments. So the zoning is logical. But is it a good idea to convert heavily wooded parkland to housing paid by the taxpayers?

What do you think about giving away heavily wooded park land for housing to solve the crisis in affordable housing?
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