The Alexandria Planning Commission held a public hearing on January 6, 2026, beginning at 7:00 p.m. in the Redella S. "Del" Pepper Community Resource Center, Room 1305, 4850 Mark Center Drive. The meeting included a work session on the draft Duke Street Land Use Plan at 6:00 p.m. The commission considered a consent calendar of three subdivision requests, a development special use permit extension, and several new business items, including a mixed-use infill project, an office-to-residential conversion, a zoning text amendment to facilitate commercial-to-residential conversions, and a master plan amendment to adopt a new Green Building Plan. All votes were unanimous (7-0) unless noted. The meeting adjourned at 12:04 a.m.
Okay. Thank you. Can you hear me? I can hear you. Okay, thank you, Burton. Testing one, two, three. Good evening. Welcome to the January 6th, 2026 Planning Commission Public Hearing at the Redella S. Dell Resource Community Center. This is the namesake was here earlier. This new location of our public hearings pending the renovation of City Hall. I am Melissa McMahon, Chair of the Alexandria Planning Commission. Before we begin, I have just a few announcements about participating in tonight's meeting. If you wish to speak on a docket item and have not already signed up to do so, please fill out a speaker form online by following the sign up to speak hyperlink on the cover page of this evening's public hearing docket or in person by filling out a hard copy speaker form, which can be found on the tables located immediately outside the chambers and providing it to Ms. Jacobs, who has her hand rate. Please note comments from the public are limited to three minutes per speaker, with the exception of applicants and their representation. To make your public comment through the Zoom application, please click on the raise hand button located on the Zoom task bar once you hear your name called to let staff know you need to be unmuted. If you are dialing into tonight's meeting via phone, please press star nine to execute the raise hand function once you hear your name called upon to make your statement, followed by star six to toggle the unmute function. For those here in person, please come up to the podium located at the front of the chambers when you hear your name called upon to make your statement. Before starting your public comment, please first identify yourself by first and last name and address. Property is zoned R25 residential. The applicant is Classic Cottage of Classic Cottages LLC, represented by Chad Ready, agent. Good evening. Sam Shelby, Planning and Zoning. Yes, so as Kendra mentioned, this is a subdivision on East Braddock Road. It is one full lot and two partial lots that are going to be technically consolidated and then resubdivided into two lots. And the proposal complies with all subdivision and zoning requirements. It's currently developed with a single-story single unit dwelling. It's in the Potomac West small area plan, pretty close to where Mount Vernon and Braddock Road intersect. And it's principally surrounded by residential dwellings and a place of worship across the street. So this slide shows outlined in red the existing lot. It has kind of a funny upper part here at the at the upper corner. But that's gonna that's that's an existing condition. So right now it has 50 feet of frontage, it's got about 5,000 square feet of uh lot size, and the proposed subdivision is shown here with the new lots, one one of the new lots on the right and the other new lot on the left. I mean right, left, blue and red. Um, and they'd be each have about 2500 square feet of lot area and would be suitable for development with a um semi-detached two-unit dwelling. So it again it meets all the subdivision requirements. Um it's within the range of sizes and widths and um uh frontages of the surrounding lots, um, and it meets the lot requirements. So we are recommending approval, and I'm happy to answer any questions that anybody might have. You are there any commissioner questions for staff? Commissioner Brown. Okay. Right, hearing no other questions for staff. Um, let's open the public hearing. Okay, our first speaker is Catherine Shamic Reed, followed by Monica D'Angelo. And I just would like to say if our speakers could bear with us, we will have a timer on the screen. Um, but our sound, we're still working at the King Center Sound, so I will speak up to let you know that the time collapse if you want to see. Thank you. Madam Chair, members of the planning commission, my name is Catherine Chak Mac Reed, and I live at 10 108 East Braddock Road, immediately adjacent to the property under consideration today. I respectfully oppose the proposed subdivision of 106 East Braddock Road.