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From YouTube: County Board Wrap-Up, September 2015
Description
ATV's monthly update providing insight on all the actions and activity of the most recent County Board meeting. County Board Chair Mary Hynes joins Diana Sun to talk about the September 2015 Board meeting, focusing on a Affordable Housing Master Plan, the Courthouse Sector Plan, the expansion of Abingdon Elementary School, Reevesland Farm, Fire Station No. 8 and the proposed expansion of Virginia Hospital Center.
A
Hello,
welcome
to
County
Board,
wrap
up
I'm
Diana
son
from
the
office
of
communications
with
me
here
today
is
Mary
Hines,
the
County
Board
Chair
welcome
Mary.
Thank
you
for
joining
us
Hannah.
Each
month,
following
the
county
board
meeting
we're
taking
a
half
hour
to
talk
about
some
of
the
actions
the
board
took
and
what
those
actions
mean
for
you,
your
family
and
our
community.
A
This
month
we'll
be
discussing
the
affordable
housing
master
plan,
courthouse
sector
plan,
expansion
of
abington
elementary
school,
the
future
of
Ruiz
land-farm
fire
station
number
eight,
and
the
proposed
expansion
of
virginia
hospital
center.
As
always
marry
hines
will
be
here
to
help
us
understand
it
all,
and
we
have
a
lot
to
cover
today.
B
A
C
You
know
a
master
plan
fits
into.
We
have
a
comprehensive
plan
that
were
required
to
have
by
the
state,
and
the
master
plan
fits
in
and
said.
These
are
areas
that
we
need
to
plan
for
that
are
essential
to
creating
a
vibrant
community
and
we
didn't
have
any
plan
associated
with
housing.
So
since
2012
we've
been
working
on
this
with
a
group
of
citizen
group,
that's
done
a
lot
of
the
work
and
very
intensely
over
the
last
six
months.
C
C
A
C
We're
going
to
accomplish
these
goals
and
priorities
that
we've
laid
out
in
our
plan,
and
one
of
the
things
we
know
is
that
over
time,
those
those
strategies
can
change,
but
the
board
basically
pulled
up
five
big
ideas
out
of
that
implementation
framework
and
said
to
the
manager.
We
want
you
to
do
these
first,
so
the
first
one
is
monitoring
how
we're
doing
every
year
on
achieving
what
we
laid
said
we
were
going
to
because.
C
Exactly
the
second
is
to
look
at
our
affordable
housing
investment
fund,
which
is
a
loan
fund
that
we
use
to
make
bricks
and
mortar
investments
and
think
about
whether
we
need
to
adjust
some
of
the
ways
we
apply.
People
apply
for
those
funds
and
we
give
out
those
funds
in
order
to
achieve
affordable
housing
in
places
we
currently
don't
have
it
that
makes
sense
per
the
plan.
The
third
one
is
to
look
at
some
zoning
ordinance
proposals,
one
around
accessory
dwellings,
which
are
smaller
units
within
a
larger
unit.
C
So
if
you
have
a
big
basement,
you
might
think
of
putting
an
apartment
in
your
basement
under
certain,
so
what
we
used
to
call
an
English
base
exactly
yeah,
but
you
could
also
put
it
on
your
second
floor
depending
right.
So
it's
just
a
small
unit
in
your
other
one.
Looking
at
some
land
use
tools
that
we
might
to
take
our
idea
of
transit,
oriented
development
and
think
about
other
transit
corridors
that
have
good
bus
service
and
how
those
might
redevelop
in
a
way
that
would
give
us
a
mix
of
affordability
and
then.
C
C
The
plan
you
know
we've
been
doing
since
2000
is
we've
been
looking
at
where
we
have
market
rate,
affordable
housing
and
we've
been
working
with
landowners
and
nonprofits
to
try
to
preserve
as
much
of
that
and
or
expand
it
where
it
makes
sense,
because
there's
a
lot
of
land
or
you
can
go
higher.
This
plan
continues
that
as
a
strategy.
C
But
then
it's
next
strategy
is:
let's
look
at
good
transportation
corridors
and,
let's
think
about
what
kind
of
density,
what
kinds
of
forms
will
give
us
mixed
income,
housing
in
those
transportation
corridors
and
then
finally,
the
third
little
piece
of
distribution
is,
you
know
a
80.
Some
percent
of
our
land
is
owned
single-family,
but
if
we
go
to
this
idea
of
people
could
have
a
unit
in
their
basement
or
duplexes
or
some
other
arrangements
where
it
makes
sense
where
it
doesn't
violate
neighborhood
character.
A
C
A
lot
of
people
don't
know
the
building
that
the
county
board
is
in
right.
Now
is
a
rental
building.
We
don't
actually
own
it
and
it's
been
a
long-held
desire
dream,
whatever
that
we
would
have
a
courthouse
building
that
we
owned,
and
so
we
planned
the
area
basically
on
three
sides
of
the
big
parking
lot
which
in
our
dream
and
our
vision
becomes
a
huge
central
square
and
the
parking
goes
underground.
C
A
C
Well
again,
we
told
the
manager
to
prioritize
some
things
and-
and
a
big
question
is:
how
can
we
advance
getting
that
underground
garage
most
of
the
property
around
the
square
is
owned
by
the
county?
There's
not
a
lot
of
redevelopment
private
redevelopment
that
might
contribute,
although
there's
some
and
so
I
hope
that
as
we
move
into
next
year's
capital
plan,
that
staff
will
give
some
thought
to
how
we
might
advance
that
parking.
C
A
D
E
D
B
Do
you
know
where
you
can
plan
your
family's
next
picnic
in
nature,
walk
travel
back
in
time
without
leaving
your
chair
or
maybe
take
a
tour
of
arlington
county's
public
art.
Even
when
it's
raining
well
here
in
Arlington
County's
GIS
mapping
Center,
we
can
help
you
do
all
of
this
and
more
from
your
desktop
computer
or
mobile
device.
B
Gis
stands
for
geographic
information
systems
and
we
gather
and
analyze
data
to
create
maps,
charts
and
3d
models
of
the
world
around
you,
whether
it's
hiding
a
safe
route
to
school
for
your
child
or
planning
a
bike
route
on
over
100
miles
of
trails.
We've
got
you
covered
and
if
you
need
a
bike,
we
can
show
you
where
all
the
capital
bikeshare
stations
are
repair
stations
and
restrooms
for
your
next
adventure
on
wheels.
Finding
the
nearest
police
station
fire,
hydrant
bus,
stop
or
voting
station
couldn't
be
easier.
B
Thanks
to
Arlington
counties,
GIS
mapping,
Center
our
team
supports
Arlington's
residents,
county
government
and
other
organizations.
We
provide
aerial,
photo
analysis,
data
maintenance,
digitizing
support
and
much
more.
Providing
these
tools
empowers
you
to
make
better
informed
decisions
about
your
work,
life
and
recreation.
In
the
counter
see
what
GIS
is
doing
for
Arlington
and
see
what
it
can
do
for
you
visit
max
arlington,
VA,
dot
us
and
get
started.
A
C
We
started
this
spring
to
have
a
conversation
with
the
community
about
locations
north
of
Lehi
way.
That
would
work
to
improve
response
time
for
EMS
and
fire
fire
station.
Eight
is
the
one
right
across
from
the
Heidelberg
bakery
on
the
highway.
Yes
and
it's
kind
of
close
to
the
Cherrydale
fire
station,
and
we
thought
for
a
very
long
time
that
if
we
could
move
it
further
north,
it
could
be
better.
So
the
community
came
together.
We
had
three
or
four
meetings.
C
Well,
I
don't
know
yet
who
were
going
to
appoint.
The
first
step
will
be
that
we're
going
to
have
a
work
session
on
october,
eight
with
the
county
manager
and
his
staff
talking
to
the
board
for
us
to
kind
of
get
all
of
us
up
to
speed
on
what
they
learned
over
these
last
several
months
about
sites
about
response
times
about
a
lot
of
different
things
that
they've
been
studying.
We'll
also,
I
believe,
have
a
straw
man
on
what
the
charge
might
be
to
the
group
and
oh
by
the
way.
C
Diana
open
Arlington's
got
a
set
of
questions
right
now
that
people
can
look
at
until
we
get
to
the
probably
the
tenth
of
the
12th
of
a
month
and
give
the
us
their
feedback
on
the
criteria
we've
been
using
as
well
as
other
criteria.
They
think
we
ought
to
take
a
look
at,
but
we'll
get
together
in
October,
8th
with
the
manager
with
this
draft
of
the
charge.
It's
my
hope
that
the
board
will
adopt
at
October
21st
at
our
carryover
meeting.
It
may
take
us
another
little
while
to
find
the
right
members.
A
C
The
manager
has
suggested
that
that
their
work
would
conclude
in
March
of
next
year
in
order
to
fit
into
the
capital
improvement
program
process
and
here's
the
other
piece
of
the
puzzle.
So
we
need
to
replace
the
salt
dome,
which
is
up
there
near
marymount,
it's
falling
apart.
That's
funded,
we
own
seven
acres
up
there
and
that's
one
of
the
key
locations
that
the
task
force
will
be
looking
at
for
potentially
housing
on
your
fire
station.
C
E
C
Board
always
reserves
to
itself
the
capacity
to
balance
out
what
it
hears.
I
hope
we
put
together
a
group
that
is
thoughtful
and
and
has
some
tension
about
the
answer
so
because
I've
found
when
we
have
tension
about
the
answer
in
the
group
that
there's
a
lot
of
energy
put
into
trying
to
find
something
that
is
satisfying
to
most
people.
So
hopefully
that's
what
will
happen
and
the
recommendation
that
comes
through
will
be
one.
The
board
will
accept,
but
we
never
promised
in
advance.
A
Let's
move
on
to
talk
about
reeves
land,
so
this
is
a
historic
property.
It's
right
next
to
bluemont
park
and
it
was
the
site
of
Arlington's
last
dairy
farm.
There
is
an
old
farmhouse
on
the
property.
There
is
a
park,
there's
a
sledding
slope
that
is
much
beloved.
I
tell
us
it.
We
the
board,
voted
to
split
reeves
land,
and
can
you
explain
to
us
about
that
sure.
C
C
We
don't
really
have
museums,
but
but
even
the
kind
of
community
house
that
we
might
say
that
you
have
in
barcroft
or
in
lyon
park
it's
it's
too
small.
It's
to
cut
up
and
we've
been
trying
to
figure
out
how
to
what
we
really
want
to
preserve.
Is
that
whole
feeling
of
the
farm
house
on
the
hill
and
the
land
falling
down
and-
and
we've
got,
you
know
Reeves
and
learning
center
gardening.
C
So
we
we
did
what's
called
a
unified
residential
development
division
in
order
to
give
ourselves
some
flexibility
to
potentially
sell
the
farmhouse
to
an
individual
who
would
be
required
to
live
in
it
and
required
to
respect
its
historicity.
The
parcel
would
not
allow
any
other
homes
to
be
built.
Now
we
have
the
board
voted
to
do
this
I
think
four
to
one.
We
have
three
years
to
record
that
action
of
the
board.
C
C
No,
we
haven't
put
it
on
the
market
we
have.
We
haven't
recorded
the
the
notes
on
the
deeds.
The
other
part
of
the
action
actually
will
lock
the
whole
rest
of
the
parcel
in
as
a
park.
So
that's
another
thing.
People
have
been
worried
about.
Are
you
going
to
sell
off
land?
You
know
lots
for
other
kinds
of
building,
and
that
is
not
the
board's
intention.
It's
to
preserve
the
one
historic
house
and
keep
the
rest
of
it
as
a
part.
So.
C
Was
my
work?
You
know
they're
back
it
behind
the
property
up
at
the
very
top
of
the
hill
and
behind
the
house.
Is
the
old
milk
shed
from
the
a
farm
right
now,
that's
very
difficult
to
get
to
so
I
think
the
long-range
thinking
about
the
park
is
that
there
would
be
some
kind
of
an
accessible
path
that
would
take
you
along
the
edge
and
get
you
up
to
the
top.
C
C
C
And
I
think
you
know,
regardless
of
which
way
board
members
have
voted
on,
whether
to
do
the
Urd
or
not
every
single
board.
Member
is
committed
to
preserving
this
as
a
place
where
you
can
come
to
understand
some
of
the
history,
and
it
may
be
that
the
best
way
altima
tlie
to
preserve
the
house
is
to
sell
it
to
someone
who'll
take
care
of
it
appropriately
and.
A
F
You
won't
need
to
feed
the
meter
when
park
in
Arlington.
Now
you
can
pay
by
cell
thanks
to
the
park
mobile
app
and
park
at
any
metered
space
throughout
the
county.
It's
easy
to
get
started.
Download
the
app
from
the
Apple
or
Android
store,
then
sign
up
for
your
free
account.
You'll
need
your
license.
Plate
number
and
a
credit
card
launch
the
app
when
you
park
at
a
meter
key
in
the
zone
number
listed
on
the
park.
Mobile
sign
or
use
the
gps
functionality
select
the
amount
of
time
you
want
to
park
and
hit
start.
F
D
F
App
allows
you
to
get
text
messages
showing
you
when
your
time
is
about
to
expire,
and
you
can
add
more
time
within
the
posted
duration
from
anywhere
there's.
Even
a
find
your
car
function.
In
case,
you
forgot
where
you
park,
Arlington's
Park
mobile
app
is
the
same
as
DC.
So,
if
you
use
it
in
the
district,
you're
covered,
Park
Mobile's
pay
by
cell
app
is
available
for
iphone
android
and
blackberry
smartphones
for
more
information
about
pay
by
cell
and
where
it's
available
visit,
arlington,
VA
us
and
search
Park
mobile.
A
C
A
C
More
children
in
our
community
is
really
a
wonderful
opportunity
to
invest
in
the
future
and
all
so
abingdon
already
had
a
bunch
of
trailers.
Abingdon
was
an
older
building,
is
an
older
building
where
the
systems
are
beginning
to
fail.
So
the
school
system
really
elevated
it
and
said
we're
going
to
put
a
going
to
move
some
stuff
around
basically
they're
getting
up
to
an
extra
hundred
and
thirty-five
kids
from
what
they
have
now
I
think
would
be
close
to
700.
C
When
all
is
said
and
done,
and
and
so
it's
redoing
all
the
systems
managing
the
storm
water,
better
they've
moved
the
gym
from
the
back
of
the
school
to
the
front
of
the
school.
So
this
we
have
better
community
access,
improve
playgrounds
in
the
back
preservation
of
what
is
one
of
the
nicest
walking
tracks
around
and
an
open
field
that
the
abingdon
Farrington
community
really
uses
tremendously.
But
but
basically
it
was
its
turn
and
it's
time
for
for
that
to
be
redone.
Now.
C
I'm,
you
know:
we've
been
working
pretty
carefully
together
through
the
last
capital
improvement
programs
to
make
sure
that
we're
trying
to
move
as
much
in
lockstep
together
as
we
can
there.
They
are
looking
now
to
cite
another
school
on
the
south
side
and
potentially
to
new
schools
on
the
south
side
and
there's
a
group
of
citizens
of.
C
Is
they
call
it
the
south
arlington
working
group
and
they're
supposed
to
come
in
in
October?
We
also
last
year
identified
a
couple
of
locations
where
we
believe
we
have
room
in
buildings.
We
have
that
have
gymnasiums
and
spaces
that
could
be
used
for
cafeteria
that
the
schools
could
use
on
an
interim
basis
as
we're
waiting
for
permanent
spaces
to
be
built
and
the
Carver
a
rec
center,
which
is
adjacent
to
Hoffman,
Boston
school
and
there's
a
little
bit
of
space
that
drew
in
the
rec
center
and
Madison
community
center
also
has
some
space.
C
So
we've
made
those
available
to
schools
and
said
if
you're
interested
in
and
the
fourth
one
is
the
Fenwick
building,
which
is
next
to
the
Columbia
Pike
library.
We've
said,
if
you
guys
want
to
use
these,
let's
have
a
conversation
and
I.
Think
it's
possible
next
fall
that
some
of
those
will
be
put
into
use,
as
we
continue
to
work.
C
A
very
creative
think
yeah.
Well,
you
know
I
will
say
the
let
when
I
was
on
the
school
board.
The
last
time
was
the
last
time
we
had
a
big
bump
up
and
we
did
some
very
unusual
things,
including
moving
a
piece
of
key
Elementary
School,
which
is
right
here
in
courthouse
out
to
west
over,
and
we
called
it
Key
West
and.
C
C
We
do
it
mostly
with
bonds
a
little
bit
with
our
annual
pago
money,
goes
into
fixing
sidewalks
and
intersections,
and
things
like
that,
but
but
the
voters
basically
have
been
approving
bonds
to
support
school
construction.
For
since
the
late
80s
we've
had
a
pretty
you
know,
we've
had
an
unbroken
string
of
bond
approvals
to
support
the
school
system.
Its
expansion.
A
So
a
growing
community
is
a
good
thing:
yeah,
it's
a
healthy
community
and
speaking
of
growing
community.
At
your
last
meeting,
the
board
authorized
the
manager
to
sign
a
non-binding
letter
of
intent
with
the
virginia
hospital
center
with
an
option
to
purchase
some
county
land
about
five
acres.
I
believe
right
next
to
the
hospital
and
is
what
is
happening
there
is
that
is
the
land
sale
a
done
deal
well.
C
The
letter
of
intent
is
really
that
we
intend
to
move
forward,
but
we
have
to
get
to
what's
called
an
option
agreement
where
all
of
the
details
about
how
such
a
land
transaction
would
happen
would
be
worked
out
by
the
various
lawyers
Virginia
hospitals,
centers
and
ours
and
you're
right.
It's
this
five
and
a
half
acres,
that's
just
north
of
the
hospital.
C
We
have
four
or
five
buildings
and
we've
been
in
the
process
of
emptying
all,
but
one
of
those
out
and
moving
them
down
to
the
standoff
center,
which
is
at
washington
boulevard
member
of
50.
So
that's
that's
the
right
place
for
the
hospital
to
expand.
Now,
what's
really
interesting
to
me
and
the
world
of
we
talking
about
land
and
how
scarce
land
is
and
the
hospital
on
some
other
parcels
in
the
county
that
they
have
indicated
a
willingness
to
to
put
on
the
table.
C
So
we
might
get
cash,
we
might
get
only
land,
we
might
get
a
combination
and
a
lot
of
it
will
depend
and
the
value
of
what
the
county
ultimately
ends
up
with
will
be
not
only
the
value
of
the
land.
But
what
is
it
that
the
hospital
wants
to
build
on
that
land,
because
all
the
density
there
is
going
to
have
to
be
created
by
the
county
board?
It's
zoned
as
a
you
know,
a
public
place
with
no
density,
so
we'll
be
in
a
conversation.
C
C
It'll
be
based
on
an
assessment,
you
know
a
prop
of
the
value
of
the
property,
and
so
we
know
what
the
base
value
is
today
of
that
property.
But
when
the
County
Board
does
a
rezoning
and
a
regal
up
and
all
of
which
adds
value
to
what
the
people
can
do
on
the
property,
it
makes
the
property
more
valuable.
And
so
that's
why
we
can't
say
today
what
the
value
will
be
and
we
can't
I'm
fairly
certain.
C
Is
absolutely
the
beginning,
what's
been
great,
as
the
hospital
has
worked
really
well
with
their
neighbors?
And
so
the
three
civic
associations
are
supportive
of
moving
this
process
forward
and
they
have
they
have
about
six
acres
or
so
on
two
different
corners
in
on
lee
highway
and
george
mason,
and
then
they
have
the
old
doctors
hospital
on
carlin
spring,
which.
A
C
C
They
have
a
bit
of
a
bit
of
a
process,
they
have
to
go
through
Diana
and
they
have
to
get
what's
called
a
certificate
of
public
need
from
the
state
that
basically
says
how
many
more
beds
they
can
add
and
what
kinds
of
specialty
equipment.
And
so
when
they
have
the
letter
of
intent,
they
can
go
and
say:
okay,
we
think
we're
going
to
have
a
deal,
and
can
you
tell
us
now
what
our
certificate
of
public
knee
would
allow
and
then
that
lets
them
begin.