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Arlington City staff seek extension of Island Crossing moratorium to complete planned-action and EIS
Summary
City staff asked the council at a workshop to extend a development moratorium in the Island Crossing area so the city can adopt a planned-action ordinance and complete an environmental impact statement (EIS); staff said the sub-area plan is finished but new ordinance language requires the additional step.
At a council workshop, Arlington City planning staff asked council to extend the Island Crossing moratorium so the city can adopt a planned-action ordinance and complete an environmental impact statement (EIS) before formally approving the Island Crossing sub-area plan.
Planning staff member Amy Parqueys said the city finished the sub-area plan before the current moratorium expired but must now do a planned-action ordinance and an EIS because recent changes to ordinance language require that step. "We have done that, and we did it before the moratorium was up, but we need to be able to do a planned action ordinance and conduct an EIS of the Island Crossing area before we can adopt the sub area plan," Parqueys said.
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