AHCA and CCCA share concerns about the change to segregated affordable housing, pedestrian access, surface parking, open space, and fern street plantings in addition to a process that has not allowed adequate community engagement. The plan appears set for approval as proposed anyway.
AHCA, ARCA, and CCCA outlined our views on the proposed HQ2 development and detailed a set of items needed to adequately mitigate impacts including affordable housing, metro station improvements, community park funds, and private-public data tracking among others.
Since the Livability Framework was issued in June, we have conducted a series of workshops, bringing together residents with diverse backgrounds and extensive knowledge of their communities and county processes. In the workshops, we examined the many essential elements of such a community and refined these goals into an Action Plan with specific objectives and outcomes we believe are needed to accommodate the expected growth in the area over the next decade.
Join us for our next monthly meeting, Wednesday, November 13 at 7 p.m, Aurora Hills Community Center. On the agenda:
Come hear about transportation projects in our area and the county’s plan to collect transportation data and model future needs from staff from Arlington County Department of Environmental Services.
County Board member Matt de Ferranti will also be present until 7:40 to hear your transportation concerns and possibly answer a few questions on county policy.
We’ll also hear about the Livability Action Plan, the latest outcome of the Livability22202 initiative.
Additional meeting items: Census 2020, officer elections.
Come Early, at 6:30 PM to meet local high school teens as they present a solution to single-use take containers in and around National Landing that they’ll be taking to the EPA for the National Recycling
Innovation Fair.
Other newsletter updates:
Free trees; 20th & Ives park exploratory committee; Census 2020 jobs; Restaurant Row parking & Crystal House development; Crystal City BID open houses; I-395 toll lanes; AHCA officer elections.
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A starting draft of community benefits has been developed in coordination with reps from our three area civic associations and leverage the Livability22202 initiative. These reflect the most appropriate package of items our impacted neighborhoods expect to see from this particular project.
Join us for our next monthly meeting, Wednesday, October 9 at 7 p.m, Aurora Hills Community Center. On the agenda:
Come hear about crime and ask questions of the Arlington County Police Department. The Crystal City BID will talk about their expansion into our neighborhood and changes anticipated with buisness, community events, and area branding. Finally, Matt Mattauszek from the County Housing and Planning Division as been appointed the planning coordinator for the 22202 area. Find out about his role and ask questions about how the County is planning to manage housing and development in our area.
Other newsletter updates:
Volunteers needed; New businesses on 23rd street; Gunston Fall Fun Fest; Arlington Census Parters; Development updates.
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Join us for our next monthly meeting, Wednesday, September 17 at 7 p.m, Aurora Hills Community Center. On the agenda:
Come hear about the progress on the Livability Initiative, ask questions, and provide feedback on ways to improve Livability and especially ways to build a sense of community for 22202.
Other newsletter updates:
Nelly Custis Park open; Dog parks uncertain; Input needed for Crystal House corner park; 23rd Street water main work; Development updates; 23rd Street tunnel closed; More glass recycling options
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Join us for our next monthly meeting, Wednesday, July 17 at 7 p.m, Aurora Hills Community Center. On the agenda:
Dog Parks, and the resident-let initiatives to finally get public dog parks at Virginia Highlands and Eads. Come learn more details and how you can help.
23rd Street “Arts Village”. Hear about a possible future vision for 23rd Street “Restaurant Row”.
Other newsletter updates:
Livability Framework; Sustainability request; Start of Amazon HQ2 building at Met Park; Army-Navy Dr complete streets project; More buildings at Crystal Houses; Nelly Custis Park Ribbon Cutting July 27.
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Update: At the July meeting, members of the Aurora Highlands Civic Association introduced and passed a resolution supporting the establishment of a dog park in the area. On August 6 representatives […]
Update: keep track of progress on the Livability Initiative page Recognizing that the pace of development in the 22202 area is expected to surge from mid-2019 onwards, and that recent […]
Aurora Highlands Civic Association represents the residents of Pentagon City and surrounding subdivisions of Addison Heights, Aurora Hills, and Virginia Highlands. Aurora Highlands is a residential neighborhood in Arlington, Virginia, 22202 established in 1910.
OUR MEETINGS are held the second Wednesday of the month at the Aurora Hills Community Center at 735 18th Street S Arlington, VA 22202 @ 7:00 p.m.
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