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Alexandria staff present draft Duke Street corridor plan; commission urges clarity on small businesses, displacement and the Civic campus
Summary
Planning staff outlined a large-scale Duke Street corridor small-area plan, citing scale (3.5 miles, large redevelopment opportunity sites), outreach findings and draft principles; commissioners pressed for clearer implementation steps on small-area plan overlaps, small-business retention and the 55-acre Civic and City Campus.
Alexandria planning staff presented draft concepts for a Duke Street corridor small-area plan to the Planning Commission in a work session, asking commissioners to weigh in on priorities, implementation sequencing and how to protect neighborhood-serving businesses.
Staff emphasized the corridor’s scale and influence on citywide growth, saying the area spans about 3.5 miles and includes a large amount of impervious surface that will shape redevelopment and infrastructure needs. Carrie Beach of Neighborhood Planning, Planning and Zoning said the formal process began in June 2025 and that staff expect to draft detailed concepts this year, return to council in a work session and hold a public hearing roughly one year after the launch. "We formally launched in June 2025," Beach said, summarizing the project timeline and the next public engagement steps.
The presentation summarized community engagement results: the plan area contains about 15%…
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