What's the real deal about real estate taxation of the Army-Navy County Club and Washington Golf and Country Club? Real deal is that County Government needs land the two country clubs occupy very soon for public infrastructure if Amazon decides to locate another headquarters here, and within the next several years otherwise.
As has been mentioned on this blog before, elected and appointed VIPs who run County Government and the Arlington Public School System have long been addicted to New Urbanism, commonly referred to as Smart Growth, which is mixed-use redevelopment-for-the-sake-of-redevelopment imposed upon low and medium density suburban neighborhoods. This redevelopment paradigm is also also referred to as 'more Clarendons everywhere' among Arlington's planners, few of whom choose to live in Arlington, let alone Clarendon.
Arlington has been ruled by a one political party for almost four decades. Although Arlington is controlled by self-described 'Progressives' the County is actually regressing from authoritarian government to a repressive regime, like the People's Republic of China. Not surprising given the human behavior that's been either criminalized or demonized over the past 17 years, both nationally and locally.
So Washington Golf and Country Club and the Army-Navy Club have been lumped with Donald Trump, the NRA, and a laundry list of the Regime's other "deplorables" for the purpose of forcing a sale of most or all of their open space for various types of new infrastructure, from new schools to new upscale townhouses. Assessed value of ANCC is about $157 million and WGCC about $87 million. The amount both clubs pay in real estate taxes every year is about what the County spends on "regionalizing" Arlington's neighborhood parks to provide upscale infrastructure to several local jurisdictions.
As the deal stands now, Amazon would heavily contribute to redeveloping ANCC and WGCC to provide housing and other upscale amenities for its employees while the County and APS would have at least 100 acres for new schools and regional sports and recreation infrastructure.
County Staff, Advisory Commissions, and Civic Association 'community leaders' have been trained or are being trained to facilitate the Amazon deal. Latest were the Advisory Commission Chairs at last night's secret County Board meeting.
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