Proposed Update to Practice/Policy
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Proposed Changes to the ACZO
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Review Status
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Adaptive reuse |
- Create a more efficient process in which adaptive reuse of existing office buildings can be realized.
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Lead Staff: Marc McCauley
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Shared parking for commercial uses
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- Expand existing shared parking and off-site parking regulations for by-right development.
- Expanded shared parking regulations can be an effective measure to address on-site parking requirements within Arlington’s neighborhood shopping centers.
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Lead Staff: Val Weiner
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Parking for athletic/health clubs and compact space flexibility
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- Updates to Sections §14.3.7.A, specifically pertaining to the minimum required
- parking ratio for the Athletic and health club use, and § 14.3.3.F, pertaining to prohibitions on compact car spaces.
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Lead Staff: Val Weiner
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Outdoor visual entertainment
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- Regulations for outdoor visual entertainment in the form of building-mounted, digital
- screens as a permitted amenity in large retail developments. Use
- standards would minimize brightness and clarify hours of operation for the use of outdoor visual entertainment.
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Lead Staff: Jill Hunger
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Sign flexibility
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- Provide greater flexibility when considering signs above 40’ including, but not limited to, placement and height due to architectural elements or site elevation (topography), the size of signs and the number of total signs; and an updated definition of monument signs.
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Lead Staff: Marc McCauley
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- County Board Meeting – Request to Advertise (4/20/24)
- Initially advertised with County Board consideration no earlier than September 2024.
- County Board action now not anticipated until 2025 as staff completes its analysis and engages the community.
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Self-service storage and live/work units |
- Continuation of CMRI 1.0. Expanding and/or amending the use category of self-service storage and introduce live/work units as an allowable use in commercial, office, and mixed-use buildings, and also to investigate how any proposed amendments would affect home occupation accessory uses.
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Lead Staff: Val Weiner |
- County Board Meeting – Request to Advertise (5/18/2024)
- Initially advertised with County Board consideration no earlier than September 2024.
- County Board action now not anticipated until late 2024/early 2025 as staff completes its analysis and engages the community.
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