Note: The transcript of this meeting states the date as Monday, February 23, 2026, but the provided meeting date is February 24, 2026. This summary uses the provided date.
The Traffic and Parking Board held a public hearing on February 24, 2026, to consider several items including parking modifications for the Old Town circulator, creation of a restricted overnight parking district in Beverly Hills, and a major package of travel lane and parking changes along the Braddock Road corridor. The meeting lasted over five hours, with extensive public testimony on the Braddock Road project.
Evening. Welcome to the City of Alexandria's Traffic and Parking Board public hearing meeting for Monday, February the twenty third, twenty twenty-six. This is going to be in person and virtual. So those of you are here in person, welcome, and those online, uh, welcome also. I have a few announcements I'd like to make before we get started. Before I begin, I would like to briefly review logistics and meeting procedures and expectations to ensure we conduct business. There's an overflow room with extra seating available where the meeting will be shown just past the elevators on the left-hand side. There are signs in the hall directing you to the overflow room. This meeting follows Robert's rules. We welcome public participation and value hearing from members of our community. During the public comment period, speakers will be invited to the podium one at a time and have three minutes to speak. And Sheila will be calling out probably five names at a time. And so if you're in the overflow room, you'll have time to come in here to speak to the board. And then once we've gone through all the in-person speakers, we will move to speakers online. For those in the audience, please refrain from talking, cheering, clapping, or otherwise reacting during public comments or board discussion. We want every speaker to be heard clearly and without interruption. If direct if disruptions occur, I may issue a warning. Continued disruption may result in removal from the meeting room. Thank you for your cooperation. And I see everyone's seating, but if somebody does come in and is wants to stand, the fire marshal won't let us have standing people, so they'll have to be directed to the um overflow room. So with that, are there any deferrals or withdrawals? No. Okay, no referrals or withdrawals. Then we go to the next item, the minutes. Does anyone have any changes to the minutes from the last meeting? Mr. Chairman, I would like to signify that I was here at the last meeting. Well, that's a crucial change. Thank you. We'll get that noted. Any other additions? Do I have a motion then to adopt a uh minutes as modified? A second. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed. Uh minutes are passed. Okay, now we go to the public discussion period. Uh this is for uh members of the public who are here who want us opportunity to speak on any item that is not on the agenda. Uh so if you plan to speak on the agenda tonight, you've submitted your speaker form and we'll take care of you. But uh, is there anyone who wishes to speak on any other non-agenda item? Is there how do we check the overflow room? Okay. Okay. And so if you wish to speak online uh about uh a non-agenda item, please raise your hand and Sheila will recognize you. I think well, this is gonna be a quick meeting. Um so next we move to uh written updates.