Mike Maguire / DCist/WAMU
The Alexandria City Council unanimously voted to eliminate single-family-only zoning early Wednesday morning, part of a wider package of zoning proposals dubbed “Zoning For Housing” aimed at expanding the city’s housing supply.
The suite of edits to the city’s zoning code makes Alexandria the second Northern Virginia locality — after neighboring Arlington — to eliminate single-family-only zoning.
Alexandria will now allow four-unit buildings on lots currently zoned for only single-family dwellings, which represent one third of the city’s land. Though controversial among some residents, the decision to eliminate single-family-only zoning will likely not change much of the city’s existing infrastructure: An estimate by the city’s planning office projects that only 66 of 9,000 single-family lots will convert into denser dwellings.
For now, new multi-unit buildings will be required to sit within the existing footprint for single-family dwellings. In the future, the city might research how changing height and bulk requirements could incentivize more multi-unit buildings in residential areas.
“The question we’re facing is whether we’re willing to commit effort and resources to make the city more inclusive… or if we’ll continue down a path of exclusivity, where only those with the most are able to remain,” councilmember R. Kirk McPike said in an impassioned speech nearing midnight on Tuesday.
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