Residential Parking Working Group Documents

County Board Work Session

July 11, 2017

Staff presented a draft policy recommendation to the County Board at a Work Session. The goals of the Work Session were to answer questions about the recommendation’s elements, the process of creating the recommendation, and to get Board Member feedback.

• Meeting Agenda, Video, and Staff Presentation
• Meeting Audio (MP3 download)

Working Group Recommendation to the County Manager

• Summary
• Full Report

Working Group Meeting Eleven

February 28, 2017

• Agenda
• Meeting Summary

Working Group Meeting Ten

February 22, 2017

• Agenda
• Meeting Read-Ahead
• Meeting Summary

Working Group Meeting Nine

February 6, 2017

• Agenda
• Meeting Read-Ahead
• Meeting Summary

Working Group Meeting Eight

January 18, 2017

• Agenda
• Meeting Read-Ahead
• Meeting Summary

Working Group Meeting Seven

December 14, 2016

• Agenda
• Meeting Read-Ahead
• Meeting Summary

Small Group Discussion

December 14, 2016

In addition to the two public open houses, staff and Working Group members hosted a small-group discussion with members of the Arlington community in order to gather reactions to the Working Group process and the policy strategies under consideration.

• Meeting Summary

Presentation to NAIOP

December 14, 2016

At the request of the local chapter of NAIOP, staff gave an overview of the Working Group process to members of the organization at a regularly scheduled meeting.

• Meeting Summary

Open House One and Two

December 7, 2016 & December 17, 2016

• Open House One and Two Summary 
• Open House Presentation Boards

Working Group Meeting Six

November 30, 2016

• Agenda
• Meeting Read-Ahead
• Meeting Summary

Working Group Meeting Five

November 14, 2016

• Agenda
• Meeting Read-Ahead
• Peer City Parking Policy Summaries
• Carsharing Studies
• Meeting Summary

Working Group Meeting Four

November 2, 2016

• Agenda
• Meeting Read-Ahead, Part One
• Meeting Read-Ahead, Part Two
• Edited Residential Parking Working Group Guiding Principles
• Meeting Summary
• Additional Readings
  • Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments Webinar, “Let’s not over-park!”
  • Park Right DC web site

Working Group Meeting Three

October 18, 2016

• Agenda
• Meeting Read-Ahead: Readings on parking and housing development, as well as excerpts from Arlington’s Standard Site Plan Conditions and three recently approved Site Plan applications 
• Revised Policy Principles to Consider
• Meeting Summary
• Additional Readings
  • “Bending the Cost Curve: Solutions to expand the supply of affordable rentals”
  • White House “Housing Development Toolkit”
  • Arlington County Standard Site Plan Conditions
  • “Parking rules raise your rent”
  • Response to a question from the Working Group made at Working Group Meeting One: Forecasted Number of Housing Units to be Constructed under the Current General Land Use Plan

Working Group Meeting Two

October 11, 2016

• Agenda
• Meeting Read-Ahead: Parking 101
• Meeting Summary (including Notes from the Working Group Discussion of Values and Priorities)
• Additional Readings:
  • Chapter 6: “The Cost of Required Parking Spaces.” The High Cost of Free Parking.
  • Arlington County’s Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance Page
  • “Zoning and subdivision regulations.” The Practice of Local Government Planning

Working Group Meeting One

September 28, 2016

• Agenda
• Updated Schedule Overview and Meeting Ground Rules
• Meeting Read-Ahead: Connecting Arlington’s Policy Framework to the Residential Parking Working Group
• Meeting Summary

Reference & Background Documents

Arlington County Comprehensive Plan

• General Land Use Plan
• Affordable Housing Master Plan
• Master Transportation Plan
  • MTP Parking and Curb Space Management Element 2009
  • Staff Summary of MTP Policies Related to Multi-family Parking Requirements

December 2013 County Board Report on the Commercial Parking Working Group (see pages 1 through 10 for a brief summary)

Sector Plans

• Ballston Sector Plan (1980)
• Ballston Sector Plan Summary
• Clarendon Sector Plan (2006)
• Courthouse Sector Plan Addendum (1993)
• Courthouse Sector Plan Addendum: Courthouse Square (2015)
• Crystal City Sector Plan (2010)
• Rosslyn Station Area Plan Addendum (1992)
• Rosslyn Sector Plan (2015)
• Virginia Square Sector Plan (2002)
• Virginia Square Sector Plan – Site Specific Guidelines (2002)

Site Plan and Special Use Permits

• Site Plan Approval Process
• Unified Commercial/Mixed Use Development Permits
  • Administrative Regulation
  • Community Review Process
  • Permit Application Checklist

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