Arlington County Government, VA Board Wrap-Up, 2 Mar 2020

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From YouTube: Board Wrap-Up: Crystal City Development

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The Board approved public hearings to consider a Phased Development Site Plan for Crystal City that is a little unusual.

A

Welcome back to County Board wrap up with County Board Chair Libby, Garvey and board member matty44mtravel.

A

Anne's, correct and but one plan, that's.

B

Innovative take it away sure.

C

So so, in the past, we've done phase development site plans. This is just a an innovation, a tweak really on that. That is taking three properties that are really related in terms of neighborhood, but they're not directly contiguous. We put them together so that that we could evaluate the density and the development in the area as a whole in a unified approach and I think this is we're seeing a lot of changes in Crystal City, but we're also engaging the community in that discussion.

C

So we advertise this in March and we're now set forth and staff is going to do the work with a lot of the stakeholders in the area and I think this is a great approach.

C

We want to evaluate things thoroughly and have a the correct amount of process, but we don't want to get so bogged down in process that the the sort of the the extremes, the over process, that some times we worry about with respect to the Arlington way gone, amok happen and so I think this is a great approach and we've started on it and staffs gonna bring expertise to a good good way for we just.

A

Kind of streamlining.

B

The process, but it's gonna, let us probably get more benefits for our community, which is great yeah and it's you know the old fashioned way of doing it, which you know often where you do this spot, and you just look at that and do it and then you would do this one and look at it and do it well, if you put them all together, you can find some ways to kill it and it's taking a holistic approach which, frankly, that the residents of the Crystal City area have been asking us to do for a long time and it's clear that you really need to do that.

B

So I think we will get some more benefits out of it and they will come faster. It's I think it's gonna be a lot better way to do it I'm really pleased our staff came up with again, as you said, it's tweaking and not a huge difference, but it's amazing how hard it can be sometimes to come up with just oh, why don't we try that just.

A

I'm, just gonna what you were saying earlier: not these the way we've always done.

B

The way right, exactly exactly so.

A

This is the public hearing from phase then for this area correct and we'll then move on from that. It's.

B

A public review process and it's part part way down. We do them for all all of the different groups. It's with jbg is the one and that's one of the reasons we're able to do it all.

C

At once is because it's a it's developed, but it's also I'm glad you mentioned that, because there is, there is going to be full public input. It's just going to be for these three linked together.