City Alters Process for Waterfront Hotel in Response to Concerns
Board of Architectural Review expected to hold informal work session on Carr Hospitality proposal for waterfront hotel in lieu of formal vote.
Alexandria’s Planning and Zoning director told members of Old Town’s architectural review board that they will discuss a waterfront hotel proposal as an informal work session rather than a formal application in response to critics of the plan. Friends of the Alexandria Waterfront, a group opposing zoning changes along the waterfront permitting uses such as hotels, sent a letter July 9 to the Board of Architectural Review for the Old and Historic Alexandria District asking it to defer reviewing a proposed hotel at 220 S. Union St. because of legal issues, zoning requirements and other reasons. The group said in the letter that considering a “certificate of appropriateness” for Carr Hospitality’s proposal “is both premature and inappropriate…
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5:31 pm on Tuesday, July 24, 2012
The protest petition process is important in light of how the government is structured. Council members are elected "at-large," meaning no wards or districts. One neighborhood can be over-represented and one under-represented, depending upon who runs and who has the numbers at the moment. It is no coincidence that BRAC ended up where it did. That neighborhood just does not have the wealth or the … more ›