BRAC Traffic Prompts Concerns for Barcroft Residents

Barcroft residents are carefully watching the influx of some 1,200 government workers into their neighborhood as a result of the Base Realignment and Closure Act. Some neighbors are calling for...

Morning Poll: Parking Rate Increases

Parking is getting more expensive in Arlington. Starting today, parking rates are going up by 25 cents. The hourly long-term meter rate is increasing from $0.75 to $1.00 while the hourly...

Meeting Tonight to Discuss Art Along Crystal City Transitway

A new bus transitway is coming to Crystal City and Potomac Yard, and planners are asking for the public's help to decide what kind of art should be placed along the route. To that end, a public...

Towing in Shirlington Village?

Sun Gazette Editor Scott McCaffrey wrote on his blog today that he recently witnessed cars being towed and license plates recorded in the Campbell parking garage in Shirlington. That would be a...

Lyon Villagers Press County Officials On Parking, Traffic Issues

Residents of the quiet neighborhoods that surround Arlington's urban villages have a very peculiar relationship with the automobile. At least, that's the conclusion one could draw based on citizen...

Lyon Village Parking Restrictions In the Works?

What started as a fight over planned parking restrictions on one Lyon Park street seems to be spreading. Last week, residents of N. Danville Street and several other Lyon Village streets noticed...

List of Clarendon Streets Zoned Until the Wee Hours

Our blurb about extended zone parking hours in the Clarendon area has provoked quite a response. In fact, as of this writing it has received 337 comments and counting, an ARLnow.com record. For...

Zone Parking Becomes More Restrictive Near Clarendon

(Updated at 9:50 a.m.) Some parking restrictions near Clarendon have gotten more restrictive. The zone parking restriction on this residential stretch of North Highland Street, two blocks from...

Homemade No Parking Sign in Westover?

A tipster sent us this photo of a spray-painted no-parking sign in front of a dumpster on 11th Street N., near the intersection with N. Kennebec St., in Westover. "What right does someone have...

Morning Notes

Arlington to Install Parking Cameras? -- Arlington is considering installing sensors or cameras that monitor parking space usage and using the data to hike parking rates to a more market-based...

Neighborhood Wants County to Delay Parking Restrictions

The Lyon Park Citizens Association is asking the county board to defer plans to restrict parking on part of Edgewood Street "pending a review of current County parking policy." County staff...

Trees to Be Added to Narrower Pentagon City Street

Newly-narrowed South Joyce Street in Pentagon City is losing a few parking spaces to make way for trees. Over the winter, crews narrowed the portion of Joyce Street from 15th Street to 16th...

County Tries to Balance Safety With Parking in Lyon Park

(Updated at 4:10 p.m.) Arlington County wants to put residents on a car-free diet, but a spat over on-street parking in Lyon Park shows that residents with cars still have plenty of pull with the...

Shirlington Harris Teeter Gets Parking Meters

The Harris Teeter in Shirlington is adding meters to its reserved parking spaces. The spaces, located on the ground floor of an adjacent parking garage, are often full, leading to complaints to...

What’s Up With the Back-In Parking Spaces in Courthouse?

A reader, Christine, wrote in to ask about a parking ticket she recently received in Courthouse. Here's her story: I'm writing because I'd like to find out if any of your other readers have had the...