City Council says developers should be financially on the hook for the traffic impacts of their projects — but they disagree over how long payments should last.
Alexandria currently relies on developers to pay for the impact their projects have on local roads and transportation networks. When it comes to follow-through, however, the city has no meaningful mechanisms to hold accountable developers who don’t make good on the promises they made during the application process.
A water main break has shut down three Alexandria schools today.
Douglas MacArthur (4633 Taney Avenue), James K. Polk (5000 Polk Avenue) and Patrick Henry Elementary (4643 Taney Avenue) Schools have been closed, according to Alexandria City Public Schools.
Good Tuesday morning, Alexandria!
🌤 Today’s weather: Scattered clouds. Mild. High of 67 and low of 50.
🌤 Tomorrow: Sunny. Mild. High of 73 and low of 44. Sunrise at 6:26 am and sunset at 7:48 pm.
(Updated 5 p.m.) Police are responding to a shooting near the bus stop at the Bradlee Shopping Center (3660 King Street).
According to the scanner, multiple gunshots were reported by employees at the McDonalds at the Bradlee Shopping Center — where an ACHS student was murdered last year — around 3:40 p.m.
A clerk at the 7-Eleven convenience store at 3023 Duke Street was shot in the leg in a robbery early this morning.
At around 2 a.m., a man dressed in black wearing a black mask went into the store, displayed a handgun and walked behind the counter, according to staff. The suspect reportedly shot into the floor behind the counter and the bullet ricocheted and hit the clerk in the leg.
(Updated 1:50 p.m.) Police are responding to a call for shots fired on the 1200 block of Madison Street, roughly a block away from the Braddock Road Metro station.
Alexandria Police spokesman Marcel Bassett said there are currently no injuries reported. The original call for service came in around 12:52 p.m., Bassett said.
After extensive public comment and a few interruptions, Alexandria’s City Council voted unanimously to approve a zoning change that would bring zoning requirements for abortion centers in line with other medical facilities.
The gist of the change is that abortion would be included with other healthcare-related uses for by-right approval in commercial and mixed-use zones.
Good Monday morning, Alexandria!
☔ Today’s weather: Light rain. Mostly cloudy. Mild. High of 66 and low of 56.
🌤 Tomorrow: Decreasing cloudiness. Mild. High of 65 and low of 50. Sunrise at 6:28 am and sunset at 7:47 pm.
It was a busy week in Alexandria with discussion heating up around several city policy proposals.
Alexandria has been moving forward with Zoning For Housing/Housing For All, a suite of changes to Alexandria’s housing code that works to rectify some of the city’s historic housing segregation.
A 58-year-old Alexandria man suffered non-life-threatening injuries after being shot in the hallway of a Landmark area apartment building early Thursday night, according to the Alexandria Police Department.
Police said the incident occurred shortly after 5 p.m. on the ninth floor of an apartment building in the 300 block of S. Reynolds Street.
Alexandria could be making significant changes to the way the School Board is elected, from staggered terms to breaking alignment with the standard election cycles.
A new survey suggests that School Board elections could be changed to staggered terms, meaning school board members are elected across different years rather than all at once.
