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The Alexandria Traffic and Parking Board will hold its next public hearing on Monday, March 23, at 7 p.m. at the Del Pepper Community Resource Center, 4850 Mark Center Drive, Room 1305. The meeting is also accessible virtually via Zoom, with advance registration required.
Three items are up for public comment.
Residents of the 300 block of Commerce Street, one block from King Street, are seeking approval to add residential pay-by-phone parking restrictions to their block. A petition signed by 52% of households on the block — the minimum threshold — cleared the first hurdle, and a city parking survey found 88% occupancy at the time of the count, well above the 75% required. Staff is recommending approval.
The board will also consider a staff request to temporarily relocate the Capital Bikeshare station at Commonwealth and Reed avenues to the unit block of West Reed Avenue. The move is tied to the Commonwealth, Ashby and Glebe flood mitigation project, which requires utility relocation work along Commonwealth Avenue. The station, installed in 2021, would remain at the temporary location until approximately mid-2029 before returning to its original spot.
The third public hearing item revisits a decision made at the February meeting. After additional site visits and resident feedback, city and DASH staff are now proposing to shift a planned Old Town Circulator bus stop from the 200 block to the 300 block of North Fairfax Street — retaining two parking spaces on the 200 block that were previously approved for removal while eliminating up to four spaces on the 300 block instead.
Monday's meeting also includes a slate of written staff updates, among them a notable development from the February hearing: the city clerk has received appeals of the board's approval of the Braddock Road Corridor Improvements Project, which drew more than 50 speakers and ran until 1:19 a.m. A public hearing before the City Council will be scheduled.
Other written updates cover a grant-funded feasibility study for a two-mile bicycle and pedestrian trail along North Beauregard Street, a summer 2026 construction timeline for the King Street streetscape in front of Alexandria City High School, an April 7 public forum on the Duke Street and West Taylor Run intersection project, and a proposed increase in on-street meter rates from $1.75 to $2.50 per hour as part of the city manager's fiscal year 2027 budget proposal — along with a new proposal to extend metering to Sundays and raise standard parking citations from $40 to $50.
The meeting is also Chair Ann Tucker's last.
Public comments may be submitted in advance by email to trafficandparkingboard@alexandriava.gov by noon Monday. The Zoom registration link is available at alexandriava.gov.
