read more like the last frustrated cry of a population that has long driven policy in Arlington and isn’t used to having its opinions disregarded: the mostly white, upper-middle-class homeowners of the city’s northern enclaves. Passing missing middle “would transform Arlington from an urban village to a paved metropolis,”But those opponents, and even some supporters, are missing something important about missing middle. It won’t do what either side seems to think, at least not at first.
wars come to my own city—and realized that the stronghold was my own part of town—I began to see how easy it is for many to hide the truth about their arguments from themselves. Here, that began with something called the Arlington Way.“This is a first for us,” said Daniel Weir, a member of the Arlington County Planning Commission, surveying the hearing room. “There are a lot of people here.”It was a frigid Monday night in December, and more than 80 Arlingtonians had come out to the county government building in the Courthouse neighborhood.