Columbia Heights Civic Association
Community Meeting
Monday, January 11, 2016
7:00 p.m.
CPRO Office, 2611 Columbia Pike

Please join CHCA for our first meeting of the next year.  This month we have a special guest to discuss the Virginia Department of Transportation’s public-private partnership of the Rte. 95 Express Lanes project.  The state recently announced plans to extend the 95 Express Lanes about eight miles north on I-395 to the D.C. line.  This project will convert today’s two HOV lanes into three Express Lanes within the existing roadway.

Mike McGurk, from Transurban, the private partner in this project, will be on hand to explain the project, answer questions and get our feedback.  Please join us for this very important discussion.

Other items on our agenda include:
Traffic calming in Arlington Village
Pedestrian traffic and safety along Columbia Pike
CHCA Activity for the coming year

Special Meeting
Columbia Heights Civic Association
Monday, Oct 26, 2015 7:00 p.m.
2811 13th Road – Sarah McKinley’s house

Special Meeting to Consider School Sites

Columbia Heights, along with other South Arlington groups, are being asked to vote on
a site for a new school in South Arlington this coming week. This vote is based
on a new proposal across the street from TJ, that was just brought forward by a
local developer. We will be presenting this new option at the meeting and hope
for a full discussion of all the ramifications of this option.

Sarah McKinley and Lida Anestidou have been attending the South Arlington Working
Group, whose mission is to select a site for a new 725-seat neighborhood school in
South Arlington. The top choices for the first school to be built now are: the
Thomas Jefferson parking lot site (put on hold from last year), Drew Elementary
campus (which has enough space for another school) or Gunston (another school
campus with space for an additional school). Over the past two weeks, a new
possibility has been presented. A developer has proposed a land swap with
Arlington County near TJ at the Dominion Hills apartment complex on 2nd street,
across from TJ. The developer has proposed providing a two-acre lot to build an
elementary school across the street from the proposed TJ site.

The SAWG discussed this proposal last Wednesday. The leadership of the group wants
a vote on this proposal at our next meeting, now scheduled on Wednesday, October
28. This provides very little time for the community to absorb this new
proposal and the many possibilities that it presents. This emergency meeting
will explore these possibilities and provide guidance to Sarah and Lida as they
go into the next meeting to vote on the proposal.

The choices at that time
will be:

Support TJ as the preferred site.

Support Dominion Hills as the preferred site if it can be built by 2019. (Many have
doubts whether this could happen so quickly.)

Support Dominion Hills as the preferred site, even if final construction is held off to
2020.

Other issues include: alternative uses for the Dominion Hills site, trying to extend the
SAWG process past December, 2015, in order to get a more comprehensive decision-
making process.

If the siting of a new school is important to you, we would encourage you to come to this
special meeting.

Columbia Heights Civic Association
Annual Meeting

Columbia Heights Civic Association is hosting a Pike-Wide meeting to
discuss an alternative to traffic congestion. All are welcome!

Monday, September 28, 2015 - 7:00 p.m.
Walter Reed Community Center
This new technology solves many of the street-car complaints:
JPods - An Alternative to the Columbia Pike Streetcar!

Please come and see what this is all about.

Agenda for the Annual Meeting - Sept 28, 2015
Join Your Local Civic Association 2015
Annual Meeting
Flyer for the JPOD 
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