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Save the Dates
Career Center Working Group
The School Board and County
Board have created a joint Working Group tasked with recommending how the
Career Center site may be developed in phases to accommodate more high school
capacity and new community amenities. Stakeholder
representatives and a Working
Group charge were finalized recently and a new project
website has been created for this effort.
A kickoff meeting including a site tour is scheduled for January 20, 2018
with subsequent meeting dates and draft agendas posted online.
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Special GLUP Study: 2300 9th Street
Arlington Housing
Corporation (AHC, Inc.) has requested a Special
General Land Use Plan (GLUP) Study for the existing building located on
2300 9th Street S. This
request to evaluate appropriate land use and zoning categories for the site
represents an initial step in what may ultimate become an adaptive
reuse of the building. The Long
Range Planning Committee (LRPC) of the Planning Commission will consider
existing and proposed GLUP and zoning categories in early 2018 using massing
models and transportation analysis. Pending
the outcome of that review, and subsequent submissions by AHC, the Site Plan
Review Committee (SPRC) of the Planning Commission could initiate a review of a
major site plan amendment to the existing building in the summer of 2018.
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In Case You Missed It
Columbia Pike Architecture
The County Board, on December 16, 2017, approved a package
of amendments to the Commercial Centers and Neighborhoods Form Based Codes. The amendments represented adjustments to the
regulations impacting building architecture and placement which span several
sections of each Code. The purpose of these refinements is to
encourage and help facilitate architectural diversity among future FBC projects
proposed along Columbia Pike. In
addition, this package of amendments achieves the following elements:
- Consistency between both Form Based Codes,
- Comprehensive update to Architectural Standards,
- Replacement of unique sign standards with those
that are available County-wide, and
- Significant update to images and illustrations
supporting text regulations.
For
more, please follow the link to the staff
report:
Other Countywide Studies:
At its meeting on December 16,
2017, the County Board established a Housing Conservation District in 12 areas
with market-rate affordable housing. In 2018, the County staff will be engaging
with the community to develop a series of zoning and financial tools to incentivize
affordable housing in these areas.
The district is intended to
prevent the loss of market-rate affordable housing, to encourage and incentivize the
distribution of affordable housing throughout the County, and to preserve and
enhance existing apartment neighborhoods, consistent with adopted policies from
both the Affordable
Housing Master Plan and General
Land Use Plan.
Since 2000, Arlington has lost
more than 14,400 market-rate affordable units that are affordable to households
earning up to 60 percent of the Area Median Income. Most of those losses were
caused by rent increases, although some were the result of redevelopment. There
are 13,775 market-rate affordable housing units remaining in the County, and
just 2,780 of these are affordable to households earning up to 60 percent of
the Area Median Income. Roughly half of the remaining 13,775 market-rate
affordable units are in neighborhoods with adopted sector and area plans,
meaning they may already have access to specific affordable housing incentives.
The Housing Conservation District contains 4,714 market-rate affordable units,
or 68% of the remaining 6,978 units.
By establishing the district,
the Board has completed the first step in a two-phase process. In Phase II, the
County will explore zoning- and tax-based incentives that could help preserve
market-rate affordable housing within the district. This work will include
identifying the types of context-appropriate building forms and layouts that
could result from incentive-based zoning standards. More information about the study can be found
online, by searching for Housing
Conservation District.
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