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Upcoming Meeting: Envision Courthouse Square

Upcoming Meeting: Envision Courthouse Square

The Envision Courthouse Square is a community planning effort to re-imagine the county’s civic center and create a great public destination. The goal is to update the 1993 Sector Plan and create a visionary plan, strategies, policies, development standards and implementation steps. One of the goals is to understand and include cultural resources and the treatment of historic features, public art, and a potential cultural facility. Historic preservation is an important part of the past and the future in this…

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UPCOMING SPRC MEETING: Key Boulevard Apartments

UPCOMING SPRC MEETING: Key Boulevard Apartments

The Arlington Planning Commission’s Site Plan Review Committee (SPRC) will hold its first meeting to discuss the proposal for the redevelopment of the Key Boulevard Apartments, located at 1537-1545 Key Boulevard. The agenda for this meeting includes an informational presentation, a discussion of the land use and zoning issues, and the justifications by the applicant for this proposal. Preservation Arlington highlighted this project in a recent post about existing site plan proposals that impact important historic resources. Built in 1943,…

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FOR SALE: The Kollmeyer House

FOR SALE: The Kollmeyer House

Located in the heart of Arlington’s Douglas Park neighborhood is a house that is probably more about opportunity than anything else.  While the property at 1708 South Lincoln Street may not be one of the largest lots in Arlington, as the listing agent points out, it is definitely an opportunity to own a piece of American history. It just isn’t exactly clear what is to be discovered on this property. At 154 years of age, this house, called the Kollmeyer House…

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Upcoming Hearing:
March HALRB

Upcoming Hearing:
March HALRB

Arlington County’s Historical Affairs and Landmark Review Board (HALRB) will hold its monthly meeting on Wednesday, March 19, 2014. The Agenda includes four Certificate of Appropriateness (CoA) requests in the Maywood Historic District, one CoA in the Fraber House Historic District, discussion on the proposed language for the Arlington Village Historic Marker and the Green Valley Pharmacy Marker, and other items. The Public Hearing Agenda is available as a PDF on the county website. For more information on HALRB including their purpose,…

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