King+Beauregard project

[Fairlington124]

Initial Site plan is available online (https://alexandriava.gov/uploadedFiles/planning/info/Development_Projects/DSUP2013-00001%20Preliminary%20Site%20Plan1.pdf).

My thoughts – Let’s be real, the West End will never be Clarendon in our lifetimes. The road and property geometry, and topography, just won’t allow it. But I think it’s perhaps as good as we can get. Property developer can’t build an entire street grid just out of one parcel, and the City doesn’t have a neigborhood plan to implement one.

Seeing as cycling is the prime concern of this blog, I would simply like to state that I hope that the plan includes provision for bike parking. As many here may know, that area is due to undergo a project which will:

-Remove the slip lanes going from King to Walter Reed/Beauregard (in both directions)
-Widen the sidewalks into MUPs
-Eliminate left turns across King+Walter Reed/Beauregard

All of theses will help cyclists access, and go through the area. I presume the central area of the project is envisioned as a mixed-use plaza-like area. I hope and am concerned that it will be used as an extended slip lane for people who are coming north on Beauregard and want to go east on King. This is fully on the hands of previous generations of planners who turned this area into a bunch of “super blocks”, without allowing for a proper street grid. Hence, anyone driving is necessarily forced to go on a major artery (King, Beauregard, Braddock, Seminary, Hampton), even if they only need to go a short distance.

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[CDFairlington]

Abingdon School neighbors oppose more traffic in our neighborhood from a variety of sources and want traffic ordinance enforcement in Fairlington.

[lordofthemark]

@CDFairlington 177043 wrote:

Abingdon School neighbors oppose more traffic in our neighborhood from a variety of sources and want traffic ordinance enforcement in Fairlington.

So you believe that completion of the Alexandria Gateway project will somehow prevent Arlington County from pursuing traffic ordinance enforcement in Fairlington? Interesting.

As for more traffic, your neighbors must be excited about the TDM plans for the Gateway project. And also aware that driving through Fairlington will not be a particularly direct way to anywhere for residents of Gateway.

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