Council approves 345‑unit residential project at 1900 N. Beauregard with parking reduction, 35 affordable units

Alexandria City Council on Saturday approved a development special‑use permit and a small encroachment for a five‑story, 345‑unit rental project at 1900 North Beauregard Street, following more than an hour of staff presentation, applicant testimony and neighborhood comment on parking, building length and neighborhood impacts.

Planning staff presenter Maggie Cooper said the project will replace a four‑story vacant office building and a large surface parking lot with a residential building that provides 18.6% open space (exceeding the 15% requirement) and will dedicate about 16,000 square feet of right‑of‑way to the city to extend the planned West End Transit Way. The applicant proposed a 56‑space parking reduction and will provide 387 parking spaces in the final plan, staff said, and the project also requests a modest setback modification and a 35‑square‑foot encroachment for an entrance stair.

Cooper…