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• BREAKING: Arlington County Board approves ‘Missing Middle’ zoning changes

  22-03-2023 23:55 via arlnow.com
  
  Attendees on the Arlington County Board meeting Wednesday, March 22 on Missing Middle Housing (staff photo)
  After years of consideration, and multiple days of public testimony and County Board discussion, one of Arlington’s most contentious local proposals in memory is becoming a reality.
  The Arlington County Board just voted unanimously to approve allowing smaller multifamily structures — also known as Missing Middle — in what were heretofore neighborhoods of only single-famil
  
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• County Board pushes parks dept. to improve teen programming in response to opioid crisis

  22-03-2023 20:30 via arlnow.com
  
  Arlington County Board members and Dept. of Parks and Recreation staff during a March 16, 2023 work session (via Arlington County)
  Arlington County’s Dept. of Parks and Recreation says it has a surfeit of programs for teens — but not enough teens to fill them.
  Between July 2021 and June 2022, DPR logged 6,350 visits to its teen programs, down from 46,500 visits during the same span of months across 2018 and 2019. The dramatic drop was caused by the cancellation of programs during the
  
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• The Old Bike Shop is being replaced by a new bike shop

  22-03-2023 19:00 via arlnow.com
  
  The Old Bike Shop on N. Pershing Drive is closing (staff photo by Jay Westcott)
  The Old Bike Shop closed earlier this year in Lyon Park, after a decade in business, but a new bike shop is moving in.
  Vélocity Bicycle Cooperative, based at 2111 Mount Vernon Avenue in Alexandria’s Del Ray neighborhood, announced today that it plans to open at the 2647 N. Pershing Drive storefront — down the road from Clarendon — in the next couple of weeks.
  “Thanks to Larry Behery and
  
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• IKEA opens delivery-only store in Pentagon City (you’ll leave with the trunk empty)

  22-03-2023 17:41 via wtop.com
  
  Swedish home furnishings chain IKEA will open one of its small format “Plan & Order” stores in Arlington this summer.
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  The store, at 1201 S. Hayes Street in Pentagon Centre, won’t have inventory for sale (and so nothing to try to stuff in the SUV). Instead, customers can meet with IKEA employees who help plan room needs and order the furnishings for delivery.
  Ikea said it is most useful for furnishing needs that require m
  
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• Small Business Focus: Red Bean Harvest LLC

  22-03-2023 17:30 via arlnow.com
  
  Many of us use coffee to perk ourselves up on a slow day, whether for the taste or the energy.
  Regardless of how we use coffee, many drink it with friends, family, or on a date to lighten the mood. Despite knowing the benefits of our favorite coffee, do we know where it comes from and the provider’s history?
  That was the question that sparked the curiosity of Maria Martinez and Maximilian Ilea, owners of Red Bean harvest in Arlington; this small business imports authentic Colombian coffee
  
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• Organizers cancel Fairlington 5K over policy requiring course to be cleared of cars

  22-03-2023 16:30 via arlnow.com
  
  A nearly decade-old 5K race through Fairlington supporting a local girl with a rare disease is canceled, possibly indefinitely.
  Since 2014, hundreds of Arlingtonians and visitors have participated in the Fairlington 5K, which raises money to fund research for a cure for leukoencephalopathy, or LBSL. The disorder affects the brain and spinal cord of Wakefield High School student Ellie McGinn.
  Her P.E. teacher at Abingdon Elementary School initiated the first race in 2014. Since then, her family
  
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• JUST IN: Ikea to open small-format location in Pentagon City

  22-03-2023 15:25 via arlnow.com
  
  Ikea store (Photo by Jueun Song on Unsplash)
  Ikea is planning to open a small-format “Plan and Order” location in Pentagon City this summer.
  The company made the announcement this morning. The 5,000 square foot location will be opening at the Pentagon Centre shopping center at 1201 S. Hayes Street, home to Costco and across the street the Fashion Centre at Pentagon City mall.
  Unlike the traditional large-format warehouse stores that Ikea currently has in College Park and Woodbridge,
  
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• Arlington County Board expected to vote this evening on Missing Middle

  22-03-2023 14:30 via arlnow.com
  
  Today, Wednesday, could be the day that the Arlington County Board allows the by-right construction of 2-6 unit homes in the county’s lowest density neighborhoods.
  The scheduled vote on proposed zoning amendments, known by the shorthand Missing Middle or Expanded Housing Options, would culminate nearly a year of intense discussion since a draft was published in May and updated in November, and before that, more than a year of study and public engagement.
  Ahead of the Board’s vote, m
  
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• Arlington Co. residents speak out on controversial increased housing plans

  22-03-2023 14:29 via wtop.com
  
  Creating more affordable and moderately priced housing in the region: That is a topic that has led to heated debate at county and city meetings across the D.C. area, and Arlington County, Virginia, is no exception.
  Dozens of residents took to the podium at Tuesday’s Arlington County Board meeting to express their feelings about its so-called “missing-middle” plan. The proposal would pave the way for the building of townhomes, duplexes all the way up to six-unit buildings on pro
  
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• ARLnow Daily Debrief for Mar 21, 2023

  22-03-2023 01:30 via arlnow.com
  
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