Arlington County Board Continues Losing Streak in Courts
Back in 2004, the Arlington County Board approved a project “by a developer and the First Baptist Church of Clarendon to build a 116-unit apartment complex on the site of the present church, with 70 of the units available for rental by those with low and moderate incomes. The remainder of the units, which are proposed to range in size from efficiency to three bedrooms, would be rented at market rates,” according to this story by Scott McCaffrey of the Arlington Sun-Gazette.
However, McCaffrey wrote that “(i)n a unanimous ruling handed down (September 15) by Justice Cynthia Kinser, the high court ruled that the government and Circuit Court Judge Benjamin Kendrick misinterpreted local zoning rules, and sent the case back to the Circuit Court for follow-up action”
You can read the entire case, which is available at the Virginia Supreme Court’s website. It’s Renkey v County Board of Arlington County, case number 052139, September 15, 2006.