BUILDING COMMUNITY FOR THE NEXT 100 YEARS
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​​ASF advocates for better development policies to ensure Arlington's long-term, budget, equity and environmental sustainability
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Case Study for Reforming Arlington County's Community Benefits Process based on the recent Green Valley project experience
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County Board Approves Huge Project to Dilute Minority Voice in Green Valley and Kill Transit Precepts for Development! Arlington County Board approved 4-0-1 on April 9 unprecedented addition of 23% of expensive housing units in diverse Green Valley where incomes won't support new rents. 531 units 2 miles from Metro violates transit policy and sane growth precepts at 2480 S. Glebe Rd. Complex land use and zoning issues were ignored, community benefits watered down. See comments by AME Lomax Zion Church to the Board, ASF comments Apr 5 and ASF comments Apr 9.
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Arlington County in 2025 Appealing Circuit Court Judge Written Decision of October 25, 2024 to End Arlington's Missing Middle (EHO) Program; entire program now on hold
On September 27, 2024 Judge David Schell ruled that Arlington had violated requirements when changing zoning (in March 2023) to allow up to 6-unit dwellings in single family neighborhoods. Read more here
Read about the County's request for a stay of execution, and excerpts from the Judge's 22 page decision.​
See County Letter of Oct 2024 Halting EHO Projects! See also County's October 18 legal motion for a stay of execution of the Judge's order. See also ASF's January 2024 Brief to the Arlington Committee of 100 and a map of permits approved as of September 27, 2024 (from Arlington economist Michael O'Grady)
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Special GLUP Reform
Arlington is Using Land Use/Zoning Tools to Expand Density; See ASF's Feb 16 2024 Suggested Fixes our ASF email to County Board on Special GLUP and Non-Profit Rezoning, and our Draft Tracking Tool of Upzoned/Upglupped Lots Feb 2024 revised May
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Langston Boulevard Area Plan Approved by the Board November 2023
The new LBP presages up-zoning (and GLUP changes) for unfunded density and gentrification.
Quick Link to ASF's November 7 Letter to the County Board, and September 29, 2023 Letter to the County Board
Quick Link to ASF November comments to the Board and Presentation to Arlington Board October 14 2023
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