Arlington County Board Responds to BVSCA on
Visitor Parking Requirements
Date: May 29, 1998
Dear Ernie:
After receiving your e-mail, I asked the County Manager to
have staff provide me with a report about the visitor parking
requirements for high-rises and townhouses.
After you have a chance to review the enclosed, if you have
additional questions, please do not hesitate to let me know.
Signed: Christopher Zimmerman, Chairman
The enclosed follows:
ARLINGTON COUNTY, VIRGINIA, INTERDEPARTMENTAL MEMORANDUM
DATE: May 27, 1998
TO: Christopher Zimmerman, Chairman, Arlington County
Board
FROM: Willian T. Donahue, Acting County Manager
SUBJECT: G54601 - Visitor parking for town houses and
high-rise residential use
Currently, the Zoning Ordinance requires town houses and
stacked one-family houses to provide two parking spaces for each
house. In addition, one-fifth parking spaces are required for
each house for visitors. Those visitor parking spaces may be
included within the required two parking spaces for each house,
when at least 50 percent of parking spaces needed to meet the
requirement are located in a common area and are available for
either residents or visitors. The County Board adopted the
Zoning Ordinance amendments for the visitor-parking requirement
on May 17, 1997.
The Zoning Ordinance Review Committee and staff are
currently studying whether visitor parking should be required for
high-rise residential use, and if they are required, how they
should be required. Presently, there are two options that are
under consideration. Since all high-rise residential buildings
are reviewed through the site plan process, visitor parking
requirement can be managed through site plan review process for
the issues specific to the site and clientele that building is
planned to serve. The second option is to amend the zoning
ordinance and add specific numbers, location and other pertinent
requirements for visitor parking to the Zoning Ordinance.
Intermediate option between these two options will be the Zoning
Ordinance amendments for visitor parking that can be modified by
site plan.
For the past several months, ZORC concentrated its efforts
to the infill residential development study. ZORC and staff will
go back to visitor parking for high-rise residential buildings in
the near future and will conclude this study.
cc:
Susan Bell, Acting Director/DCPHD
Robert Brosman, Planning Director
Sakura Namioka, Zoning Ordinance Review Coordinator
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