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• County Board, community leaders recommend tweaks to strengthen draft Plan Langston Blvd plan

  13-09-2023 21:30 via arlnow.com
  
  After 11 years of work, started by a group of residents and picked up by Arlington County, a planning document guiding the development of Langston Blvd could soon get teed up for final approvals.
  Plan Langston Blvd outlines how to encourage private development on the corridor to make it walkable, bikeable and flood-resilient. Less dense neighborhoods transition to “activity hubs” developed with privately owned public spaces and apartment buildings as tall as 15 stories, with units af
  
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• Great Arlington-area plumbers who charge fair prices? Not a pipe dream.

  13-09-2023 20:45 via arlnow.com
  
  Well-known plumber Mario in an ambiguous pose (Photo by Cláudio Luiz Castro on Unsplash)
  It’s the ARLnow Five and Five, where nonprofit Washington Consumers’ Checkbook provides five top-rated local businesses and five tips for getting great service and prices. ARLnow readers can access all of Checkbook’s ratings of local plumbers until Oct. 15 at Checkbook.org/ARLnow/plumbers.
  The following plumbing companies are best bets for Arlingtonians.
  They all recei
  
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• Public review of four major redevelopment projects could start up this fall

  13-09-2023 19:45 via arlnow.com
  
  Arlington County expects to receive a handful of major development applications this month, teeing them up for public engagement down the road.
  The four pending projects span Pentagon City and Crystal City to the south and Rosslyn and Courthouse to the north.
  Apartment buildings figure into all the proposals, though two developers are mulling a mix of office or hotel uses, too. Of those in the queue, two are straightforward, single-phase apartment projects while two are far-afield, multi-ph
  
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• Biz Talk: Arlington Economic Development celebrates first AIF Ecosystem Support Fund Recipient

  13-09-2023 18:45 via arlnow.com
  
  This article was written by Adam Henry, CEcD, EDP, Senior Business Development Manager for Arlington Economic Development.
  Last week, Arlington Economic Development (AED) in partnership with the Rosslyn Business Improvement District, American Real Estate Partners and Unstuck Labs celebrated the grand opening of Unstuck Labs’ pop-up studio in Rosslyn. This innovative partnership along with support from AED’s Arlington Innovation Fund’s Ecosystem Support Fund will
  
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• Arlington art teacher and parent learns to ‘walk with cancer’ after a diagnosis upended her life

  13-09-2023 17:45 via arlnow.com
  
  It started out as an ordinary day, like any other.
  Nikki Reed, her husband Mike, and their two young children, 5-year-old Sylvia and 6-month-old Eli, were spending their Fourth of July at the pool when Reed began to feel dizzy.
  Thinking she was just dehydrated, Reed went home, took a cold shower and drank plenty of water. But the dizziness persisted.
  That night, she struggled to remove her contacts and earrings with her left hand. The following morning, she had difficulty holding Eli and her le
  
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• Construction on apartments next to Ballston Harris Teeter set to wrap up this year

  13-09-2023 16:45 via arlnow.com
  
  New apartments along N. Glebe Road in Ballston are nearing completion.
  Developer Southeastern Real Estate Group, LLC tells ARLnow construction on the residential redevelopment, near the Harris Teeter store, should be done in the next couple months.
  Construction work on the apartments began in 2020. Although the units at the complex, dubbed URBA, are not quite finished, people are already signing leases, says Southeastern Vice President Mary Senn.
  “Our first phase at URBA is currently
  
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• Morning Poll: How do you feel about duplexes?

  13-09-2023 15:30 via arlnow.com
  
  Last week, ARLnow reported that neighbors successfully dissuaded a developer from building a duplex in the Tara-Leeway Heights neighborhood.
  Their concerns included traffic and parking challenges on the street, writing that the “proposed development will only exacerbate this, endangering residents, including the many children who live on the block.”
  While the neighbors were able to leverage a restrictive deed covenant from 1938 to scuttle the duplex and convince the developer to bui
  
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• After 11 years, housing voucher waitlist lottery open again for Arlington Co. renters

  13-09-2023 12:20 via wtop.com
  
  An 11-year wait for Arlington County, Virginia, renters eager to obtain a housing voucher ends Wednesday.
  The county’s Housing Choice Voucher Program, formerly called Section 8, opens its 10-day application process for renters at 8 a.m.
  The last time residents had the opportunity to get on the 5,000-slot waitlist was back in 2012.
  “It was a one-day application process,” Arlington County Housing Bureau director Nicole Dula said. “We had an in-person process at that time, w
  
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• SightCare Reviews – Shocking Side Effects Risk Exposed! Do NOT Buy Fake Sight Care Pills

  13-09-2023 10:30 via arlingtontimes.com
  
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• Arlington shares promising standardized test results among most vulnerable students

  13-09-2023 05:34 via wtop.com
  
  Students in Arlington, Virginia, made strides in several subjects last year but saw a minor decline in writing, according to standardized test score data shared with the school board last week.
  Overall, the county reported a four-point increase in math and a seven-point improvement in social studies. All subgroups of students improved their science scores, too, the county said, while reading scores remained about the same.
  The latest data is from the Virginia standardized test known as the Stand
  
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• ARLnow Daily Debrief for Sep 12, 2023

  13-09-2023 02:30 via arlnow.com
  
  Good Tuesday evening, Arlington. Let’s take a look back at today’s stories and a look forward to tomorrow’s event calendar.News recap
  The following articles were published earlier today — Sep 12, 2023.9:30 am: Free outdoor movie nights coming soon to Pentagon City |Comments
  10:30 am: Greenheart Juice Shop to hold grand opening this Saturday in Ballston |Comments
  11:30 am: Covid cases on the rise in Arlington, but so far lower than last year |Comments
  1:30 pm: ‘Paws
  
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