To the editor: An Arlingtonian, I live in a residential neighborhood of single-family homes.
Discussion of the now-enacted Missing Middle has centered on the sale of multi-family homes, and how they will provide affordable housing for middle-income families. We can expect developers to buy up properties in our neighborhood and build multi-family dwellings.
The way things stand, there is nothing to prevent a developer from owning the building and renting out apartments and individual rooms. A developer can run a mini-hotel right in the middle of our residential neighborhood!
We don’t want to live down the street from a residential hotel. Our property values will plummet, as most potential homebuyers won’t want to live down the street from a hotel, either.
Now it is up to the County Board to zone properly. The law of unintended consequences threatens to engulf us.
Kenneth Suskin, Arlington
