Infrastructure

Arlingtonians need to understand and address consequences of uncontrolled growth and density.  Before approving more density or changing zoning, the County should:  

 

• Adopt a flooding and land use plan utilizing an accepted floodplain management tool, based on understanding of root flooding causes, their relationship to development, our watershed’s carrying capacity in the face of climate change and what we must do to prevent flooding.

 

• Adopt available community planning tools (such as the TischlerBise fiscal impact tool) to assess both costs and benefits of different development scenarios, including assessing fiscal impacts on our capital and operating budgets and infrastructure impacts (such as to storm water management).

 

• Create a ten-year projected county operating budget for different population and revenue scenarios.

 

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RESOURCES

• JFAC Meeting on Planning Process Including Missing Middle Housing, ASF Brief, July 5, 2022

• ASF Selection of Infrastructure Failures 2015-2022

• Arlington Flying Blind in Planning for Critical Infrastructure, ARLNow, Peter Rousselot, January 27, 2021

• ASF Infrastructure Overview, 24 Feb 2020

• Adopted 2019-28 CIP Plan, Arlington, Virginia

• Arlington County Oversample of MWCOG Transportation Plan, based  on 2018 MWCOG Regional Transit Survey, Arlington County, 2021

• Stormwater Master Plan, 2014, Arlington, Virginia

• Master Transportation Plan through 2030, Arlington, Virginia

• TischlerBise Planning Tool Information

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