Arlington’s Pedestrian Advisory Committee is voicing concerns about a proposal for a new behavioral health complex on S. Carlin Springs Road.
Some of the concerns are related to the site itself, while others relate to broader existing challenges along S. Carlin Springs.
County Board members say further steps to protect students along S. Carlin Springs Road will be in place before classes resume in late August.
“We want to be responsive — all of us care and have been engaged,” Board Chair Matt de Ferranti said in response to concerns raised at the Board’s Saturday (July 18) meeting.
Neighbors are pressing county leaders to deliver tangible safety improvements to S. Carlin Springs Road by the time students return to school in August.
“This is an immediate emergency — an urgency that we cannot look beyond,” Glencarlyn resident Dixie Duncan said at the Board’s public-comment period on Saturday.
Final action on VHC Health’s proposed 146-bed S. Carlin Springs Road behavioral health and rehabilitation facility could come as early as September.
That somewhat aggressive planning timeline was laid out at a community-kickoff meeting for the project yesterday (Monday). Current plans anticipate the project heading to the full Planning Commission on Sept. 9 and the County Board on Sept. 19, although that timetable may slip.
A proposal for a new behavioral health center on S. Carlin Springs Road is facing pushback on environmental impacts and effects on the surrounding neighborhood.
Misgivings about the 146-bed, 131,000-square-foot development proposal from VHC Health and Lifepoint Health made their way into discussions at the March 26 meeting of the county’s Forestry & Natural Resources Commission.
New speeding cameras in Arlington have led to fines for over 7,000 drivers since September, new data shows.
As of January, Arlington County had collected $713,525 from motorists speeding in front of school zone cameras. A total of 13,627 alleged violations were prosecuted, but only 7,135 prosecutions have been successful so far, according to a Virginia State Police report.
A small but critical piece of the effort to improve sidewalk conditions on S. Carlin Springs Road took a step forward this weekend.
Arlington County Board members voted to pay a property owner $29,230 for easements that will allow for a wider sidewalk at Carlin Springs and 2nd Street S., near Kenmore Middle School.
At least three people were injured, including two children, after a car plowed into pedestrians in a crosswalk following a crash.
The crash happened around 3:10 p.m. at the intersection of S. Carlin Springs Road and 3rd Street S., near Kenmore Middle School and Carlin Springs Elementary.
Arlington County police had a busy morning of crashes and other vehicular issues today (Tuesday).
Around 8:30 a.m. police responded to a reported two-vehicle crash on N. Carlin Springs Road at N. Greenbrier Street, which left an SUV overturned on its roof and the northbound lanes of the roadway blocked during the morning commute.
A study on the traffic and safety needs of Carlin Springs Road has been pushed back by over a year.
Following an open house earlier this week about safety concerns on the southern portion of Carlin Springs, county spokesperson Claudia Pors confirmed that the planned Carlin Springs Road Corridor Study will take place in Fiscal Year 2027, which starts on July 1, 2026.
A couple weeks after a tongue-in-cheek installation called attention to safety concerns on S. Carlin Springs Road, Arlington County hosted an open house last night (Tuesday).
The theme of the event: safety along Carlin Springs.
Extra emphasis on road safety, environmental resiliency and facilities upgrades is included in the final draft of Arlington’s latest 10-year Capital Improvement Plan.
The Arlington County Board yesterday (Tuesday) approved a $4.5 billion Fiscal Year 2025-2034 CIP, outlining planned investment in county infrastructure and assets. Changes between the original proposal presented in May and the final draft include:
