Tag: zoning

Your Views: How about a population cap?

  To the editor: Get ready for a more costly city with more and taller structures, less open space, more people, their cars and youngsters and...

Our View: The voice of integrity

Integrity is a word that’s tossed around a lot, including by us. Do we aspire to be people of integrity, a community of integrity,...

What’s up with Inova?

By Olivia Anderson | [email protected] What started as murmurings around what will happen to the Inova Alexandria Hospital site off Seminary Road when Inova builds a...

Your Views: An open letter to city council

To the editor: I have just learned about the new rules for zoning density variances and affordable housing requirements recently approved by City Council. I...

City Council gears up for fall business

By Missy Schrott | [email protected] Alexandria City Council will reconvene on Sept. 8 for what is sure to be an interesting autumn in city government,...

City council approves new Avanti Holdings project

By Margo Wagner | [email protected] Alexandria City Council voted to amend the Braddock Road Metro Station Neighborhood Plan and rezone to allow for the construction...

Council considers zoning issues, restaurant SUPs

By Arya Hodjat | [email protected] Alexandria City Council members discussed a number of issues related to zoning requirements, including the need for a comprehensive approach to...

Our View: Pay attention to proposed zoning changes

City staff have reviewed many of Alexandria’s zoning ordinances, and changes to those ordinances have started making their way onto dockets for city council’s...

Letter to the Editor: Housing affordability is a density issue

To the editor: Housing affordability is the new clarion cry for public and private sector problem-solvers. The impending “Invasion of the Amazonians” has galvanized them...

New coffee shop, eatery planned for upper Prince Street

A new coffee shop and limited service restaurant is planned for 1320 Prince St. Whitney and Jason Langone filed a special use permit with the...