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  • About

    About

    Realize Rosslyn is a new effort to promote public participation in a community planning process aimed at realizing the transformation of Rosslyn from a 1960’s auto-centric area into a vibrant and distinctive urban place featuring great housing, retail and office space. The intense, one-year planning effort will be the most comprehensive look at planning in [...]

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  • Process and Schedule

    Process and Schedule

    The planning process for the Rosslyn Sector Plan Update is open and inclusive, and will be designed with a variety of ways for people to participate and become engaged in the process. Ongoing civic engagement will target a broad cross-section of the public to solicit extensive and diverse input.  This will allow for the creation [...]

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  • Documents

    Documents

      This process to update the Rosslyn Sector Plan represents the first revisiting of the Rosslyn Station Area Plan Addendum since its adoption in 1992. A variety of documents and other media, both past and present, will help inform the discussions of this planning effort and inform the draft plan recommendations:   Prior County Plans [...]

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  • FAQs

    FAQs

      What is the purpose of the Rosslyn Sector Plan Update? Arlington County is participating in a long range planning process with the community to refresh the future vision of Rosslyn as a vibrant place to live, work and play. The plan update will build on the successes of the County’s 30+ years of experience with smart [...]

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  • Surveys

    Surveys

    The Realize Rosslyn community planning effort sets out to realize the transformation of Rosslyn into one of our region’s great urban centers. Your input on these surveys will help inform our way forward.   Rosslyn’s Future Bicycle Network: If you cycle to or through Rosslyn – or if you would do so if safer, more [...]

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Recent Articles

Bike Rosslyn! | Realize Rosslyn at Bike to Work Day

| May 20, 2013 | 0 Comments
Bike Rosslyn! | Realize Rosslyn at Bike to Work Day

On May 17, Realize Rosslyn project team members joined the bicycling masses as they converged on Gateway Park, the location of the Rosslyn pit stop. At this early morning event (6:30-9:00am), project staffers were able to engage with several dozen bicyclists to learn more about their experiences bicycling to and through Rosslyn – and what [...]

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Goody Clancy Receives Top National Planning Award

| April 26, 2013 | 0 Comments
Goody Clancy Receives Top National Planning Award

Goody Clancy, the lead planning firm working with Arlington County on the Realize Rosslyn planning effort, has been selected by the American Planning Association (APA) to receive their 2013 National Planning Excellence Award for a Planning Firm. Each year the APA honors one firm with this award for its outstanding body of work and success [...]

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Rosslyn Magazine Profiles Planning, Urban Design and Development

| April 18, 2013 | 0 Comments
Rosslyn Magazine Profiles Planning, Urban Design and Development

The Spring 2013 issue of Rosslyn Magazine includes a spread on pages 12-13 that includes a current tally and detailed information of Rosslyn development in the pipeline. The spread also includes a piece on how the Rosslyn Sector Plan is getting an update.  Read more HERE.    

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Rosslyn Gets ‘Yarn Bombed’

| April 9, 2013 | 0 Comments
Rosslyn Gets ‘Yarn Bombed’

A group of volunteer knitters and crocheters, known as the “Guerrilla Stitch Brigade,” “yarn bombed” a stretch of Rosslyn between the Metro Station and the Artisphere this past weekend. Read more in the ARLNow article.  

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