Updates from ArlingtonWINs
Today County staff released the first EHO Annual Data Report for the 2024 Fiscal Year (July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024), along with a spreadsheet of the raw data used in the analysis. At the December 17th recessed County Board meeting, Board members indicated that the program appeared to be meeting its intended goals of providing more housing supply and options.
At its November meeting, the Arlington County Board voted unanimously to appeal the judge’s decision in the Expanded Housing Options (EHO) case. Now, the appeal process will begin and is likely to last between one and two years. The county has also released a new webpage with information on the appeal for the public.
The judge in the EHO lawsuit has issued a partial stay of his ruling, granting existing EHO permit holders the right to move forward with their projects while the case is under appeal. This stay was requested by Arlington County, which issued 45 permits under the EHO zoning ordinance. But the partial stay comes with a big caveat.
ArlingtonWINs was deeply disappointed by the recent decision of a Virginia Circuit Court judge to strike down Arlington's Expanded Housing Options ordinance (EHO). ArlingtonWINS will not back down. Nor will the many Arlingtonians committed to ensuring that people from all walks of life can find homes in our neighborhoods.
The lawsuit brought by the plaintiffs originally included seven separate “counts,” or claims about why the ordinance should be invalidated. So in order to understand the ruling, we’ll need to have a better understanding of the substance of each of the counts in the lawsuit.
Arlington County has reached the annual permit cap for EHO zoning approvals in the R-5 zoning district. The annual cap for R-5 is the smallest of all districts at 7 permits per year.
The EHO Trial was held from July 8 to July 15, 2024. A verdict is not expected for several weeks or more following the August 1 post-trial brief filing deadline. Here are some highlights.
The Arlington chapter of NAACP has submitted an Amicus Curiae brief in the EHO lawsuit to help advise the court on the topic.
This guide presents an overview of each phase of the lawsuit filed in April 2023 by 11 Arlington homeowners against Arlington County, which attempts to overturn the County’s 2023 approval of Expanded Housing Options (EHO) zoning ordinance amendments.
Arlington County’s path toward adoption of Expanded Housing Options was a multi-year research and public engagement effort. ArlingtonWINs new resource provides a history of each stage.
Letter to the Editor in the Gazette Leader. Lawsuits are complicated. No one is winning the lawsuit until the judge makes the final decision.
Supporters of Arlington's landmark Expanded Housing Options (EHO) zoning ordinance are celebrating the first anniversary of its approval on March 22, 2023, with the creation of a new community group, ArlingtonWINs (Arlingtonians for Welcoming and Inclusive Neighborhoods).