Lynhaven Residents Sway Planning Commission
Area residents successfully pleaded with the commission not to make a decision that could potentially aggravate an already difficult parking situation.
The Planning Commission ultimately agreed with dozens of speakers who pleaded with its members not to make a decision that could aggravate already abysmal parking conditions in Lynhaven. Nonprofit AHC plans to build a three- to five-story building with nearly 80 affordable housing units for 60 years at the corner of E. Reed Avenue and Route 1. But the AHC proposal calls for its tenants to pay for parking at $35 per space per month. Area residents cried foul, saying the building's new tenants would try to circumvent the fee by searching for free street parking. The AHC representative, the omnipresent Alexandria lawyer Duncan Blair, said the city is spending a fortune on public transit and the E. Reed Avenue corridor is a “transit-oriented …
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