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Thoughts on how we can make Virginia more affordable and productive

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Hometown Virginia 🏗️ @arlingtonfacts.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Perfectly legal to build conjoined house to sell for 3 million dollars, but illegal to subdivide until missing middle legalization
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Hometown Virginia 🏗️ @arlingtonfacts.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
We charge 15 year olds money to attend sports games at their own high school but it is free for boomers
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Hometown Virginia 🏗️ @arlingtonfacts.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Fios outage in arlington?
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Hometown Virginia 🏗️ @arlingtonfacts.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Getting hype for Clarendon Cup today 🚲
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Hometown Virginia 🏗️ @arlingtonfacts.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Nice
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SRtwofourfour @srtwofourfour.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Not exactly my jam but some of these people will move out of older cheaper places and many will buy pies from acme and empanadas from Mpanadas etc etc and every single one of these is better for the environment than the usual arlington mansion #columbiapike www.bcnhomes.com/available/to...
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Bradbury Square — BCN
AVAILABLE | 16 Townhomes 2300 S. 9TH STREET, ARLINGTON Bradbury Square New Construction Townhouse Columbia Pike
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Hometown Virginia 🏗️ @arlingtonfacts.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
What a waste of taxpayer money and bus rider time
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Hometown Virginia 🏗️ @arlingtonfacts.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Should be by-right
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Hometown Virginia 🏗️ @arlingtonfacts.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Might as well make Wilson Blvd a one lane road at this point
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Hometown Virginia 🏗️ @arlingtonfacts.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
I don’t think its reasonable to close this sidewalk in Clarendon for 2 months
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Hometown Virginia 🏗️ @arlingtonfacts.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Just block the full lane bro
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Hometown Virginia 🏗️ @arlingtonfacts.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Same spot, different tragedy. Heartbreaking. It shouldn’t be like this.
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Hometown Virginia 🏗️ @arlingtonfacts.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Delegate Patrick Hope delaying affordable housing for seniors with disabilities
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Hometown Virginia 🏗️ @arlingtonfacts.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Planning for community engagement in late 2026. Planning has been going since 2022. The National Park Service must be stopped.
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Hometown Virginia 🏗️ @arlingtonfacts.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
How much money do you think the owners of this parking lot in Ballston are leaving on the table every year?
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Hometown Virginia 🏗️ @arlingtonfacts.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The planning department tried to keep the abandoned crack motel 😂
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Hometown Virginia 🏗️ @arlingtonfacts.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Every business in ballston has shoveled beautifully except this small local bank
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Hometown Virginia 🏗️ @arlingtonfacts.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Got a little too optimistic about heat pumps
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ArlingtonInfrastructure @arl-infra.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I ❤️ sidewalk snowplows
An orange mini plow clearing the sidewalk at Central Place in Rosslyn.
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Levi Anthony Luckenbach @lluck002.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
(Rosslyn is limited to 400’ due to its proximity to DCA; Ballston is the most viable Arlington TOD that is outside the FAA’s most restrictive heights)
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SRtwofourfour @srtwofourfour.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
I like how #arlingtonVA supports small businesses like here they are allowing a beloved local small business use this alley for storage for no charge - so nice! #advancedtowing
Advanced towing stole this alley
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Michael 🚲🚲 @ballstonbakfiets.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Ballston, capital of Washington, DC
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SRtwofourfour @srtwofourfour.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Hate this all you want - this gives us cool restaurants, coffee shops, exercise places … and homes.
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Tracy Hadden Loh @lohplaces.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Someone submitted a 14-page white paper on Columbia Pike transit service as part of their comments on the strategic plan during the comment period and staff put the whole thing into the board book/public record. Honestly inspirational.
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Theo in Arlington @adamtheo.com · 12/12/2025
Arlington County should definitely 💯 take full control of Glebe and Langston from VDOT. Without control we will never be able to fix those corridors to improve #VisionZero pedestrian safety or expand transit access. We are at the whim of people who think in terms of highways and faster VMT.
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County manager punts on questions of local takeover of Glebe Road and Langston Blvd | ARLnow.com
Arlington's county manager is holding off on a firm stance regarding local control of roads currently controlled by the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT). County Manager Mark Schwartz told ...
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ArlingtonInfrastructure @arl-infra.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
̶G̶o̶n̶d̶o̶l̶a̶ Tramway Now! 🚡
The Roosevelt Island Tramway entrance sign.
An aerial tram over the East River.The NYC skyline view from the aerial tram.
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Sustainable Mobility for Arlington County @susmo.org · 03/10/2025
🚴‍♀️Hey Arlington fam! 🛴 The Columbia Pike Bike Boulevards plan is out & it is missing the mark on safety + connectivity. 😬 Speak up for a plan that is safe, comfortable, and connected with a long-term vision! 🗓️ Deadline: Sun 10/5, 11:59 PM
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Columbia Pike Bike Boulevards: Demand a SAFE, CONNECTED plan with a LONG-TERM VISION!
For a variety of reasons, good and bad, Columbia Pike is being completely rebuilt without any dedicated bike facilities.  Instead, parallel routes are supposed to exist for bikes just north and just south of the Pike, the Columbia Pike Bike Boulevards.  These routes have never been safe, comfortable, and connected, but the County was supposed to be unveiling a plan to change all of that. Sadly, the proposed concept plans unveiled at the September Open House are woefully insufficient.
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Hometown Virginia 🏗️ @arlingtonfacts.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Fill out this survey if you think the rent is too high
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Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Nobody in Arlington should have to put up with this casual disrespect of the neighborhood. People should be able to walk on streets that are safe
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Hometown Virginia 🏗️ @arlingtonfacts.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
👀
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Hometown Virginia 🏗️ @arlingtonfacts.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
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Jane Fiegen Green @janefgreen.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Great overview of what Missing Middle housing can bring to Arlington. share.google/EIBd7UpJOgOG...
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Arlington six-plex shows promise of Missing Middle
Only a few projects have been allowed to continue under Arlington’s Expanded Housing Options amid legal challenges. One is a six-plex near the Virginia Square Metro Station that shows the incredible p...
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Hometown Virginia 🏗️ @arlingtonfacts.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
The average new house in Arlington costs 2.4M
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Hometown Virginia 🏗️ @arlingtonfacts.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Wilson Blvd is really important and it's wild that we just let people block half of it whenever they want
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Hometown Virginia 🏗️ @arlingtonfacts.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
With the new protected bike lane, cars are now double parking on Wilson Blvd itself @arl-infra.bsky.social
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Hometown Virginia 🏗️ @arlingtonfacts.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Hiring competent leaders seems like a good idea for future nonprofits. Sad to see the outcome of this adventure.
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Hometown Virginia 🏗️ @arlingtonfacts.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
What is the point of the plans and the planners if the plans don't include apartment buildings in Rosslyn? We have a housing shortage! "the plan did not meet the Fort Myer Heights North Plan or countywide Comprehensive Plan."
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chilito @hectorarbuckle.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Sad news about an awesome tower in Arlington. www.bisnow.com/washington-d...
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JBG Smith Abandons 1,400-Unit Apartment Project
The REIT told Arlington County it no longer intends to build a pair of 30-story towers that received approval in the National Landing neighborhood.
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Lotta @gemmy.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
They get smaller and fewer every year, but always there to remind you. I will not forget, and those of us who watched the Pentagon burn are not likely to…
Large American flag hanging from a building in Rosslyn, Arlington, Virginia. (Pic from my car two days ago)
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Sue Mosher @placekeepers.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Here's the whole map. More info at ssafety.org/happy-wheels/
Map of crowd-sourced, comfortable bike routes in #ArlingtonVA to connect trails with key destinations
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Hometown Virginia 🏗️ @arlingtonfacts.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
No new zoning at East Falls Church No new zoning along R-B corridor No new zoning in Aurora Heights What have they been doing?
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EOC @orcma.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
We have the worst urban planners
George senior “I have the worst f*ing attorneys” face
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Hometown Virginia 🏗️ @arlingtonfacts.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Not much point in dynamic pricing for parking if nobody bothers to pay anyway...
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Hometown Virginia 🏗️ @arlingtonfacts.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Is the county seriously going to deny this nice-looking building for being too tall? It's in Rosslyn! It's the shortest building in the picture! We have a housing shortage!
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Nate Rathjen @rathjen.us · 08/09/2025
Arlington having an unofficial network of bike routes named after Sesame Street characters actually rules
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Rob Pegoraro @robpegoraro.com · 09/09/2025
Missing Middle zoning (aka making duplexes to 6plexes by-right on single-family lots, depending on their size) is once again legal in Arlington. At least until the next round of dead-ender litigation from NIMBYs who don't seem to get that Arlingtonians keep voting for pro-MM County Board candidates.
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Missing Middle scores a win as appeals court returns to original ruling | ARLnow.com
Arlington's "Missing Middle" ordinance may make a comeback after a new ruling in the Virginia Court of Appeals. In a Friday decision, a panel of three judges returned to the court's original stance th...
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Hometown Virginia 🏗️ @arlingtonfacts.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Could have been statewide but it was killed by democrats in the senate
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Roey Hadar @roey.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Saw tennis star & noted NWSL boyfriend Ben Shelton in the tunnels postgame in DC. Gave a couple of folks an informal injury update, saying he plans to play next in the Tokyo Open in about three weeks. Shelton pulled out of the U.S. Open early and will miss the upcoming Laver Cup.
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Hometown Virginia 🏗️ @arlingtonfacts.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
We support federal employees (as long as they don't want to live here)
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Hometown Virginia 🏗️ @arlingtonfacts.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
The SW baseball field at Quincy Park could probably be repurposed into a bit of a plaza/bocce situation
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