March 2026 County Board Meeting Agenda Highlights

The Arlington County Board will consider and act on several items at its Regular and Recessed meetings. The Regular meeting will be held on Saturday, March 14, 2026, at 9:30 a.m. The Recessed Meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 17, 2026, at 3:00 p.m. These meetings are open to the public. Please visit the County website for information on speaking at a County Board Meeting.   

Virtual participation options are available to the public through Microsoft Teams. If you are sick, please consider watching the meeting's live webcast or cable broadcast or participating virtually via Microsoft Teams. More information on how to participate or watch virtually is provided below.  

Comment on Agenda Items and Speak at the Meeting
Please send your written comments on agenda items to the County Board at CountyBoard@arlingtonva.us. All comments received by the Board are made part of the public record and are before the Board members as they consider items.   

If you wish to comment during the Public Comment period at the start of the Regular Hearing or on a Regular Public Hearing item, please register in advance on the County Board website, where you can also find more details on public participation in virtual Board Meetings, or call the Board Office at 703-228-3130 from 8 a.m.- 5 p.m., Monday-Friday. Online Registration opens once the agenda for the meeting is posted, approximately one week before the meeting. In-person registration is also available on the day of the meetings.  

Watch it Live
All County Board meetings are live-streamed on the County website, Agenda and Minutes webpage, YouTube, and broadcast live on Arlington TV, the County's cable channel, with live captioning on Comcast 25 & 1073 (HD) and Verizon FiOS 39 & 40. Videos of Board meetings are archived on the County website (with captions and staff reports) and on YouTube.  

Saturday, March 14, 2026 – Regular County Board Meeting  

Item 32 – Strategic Amendments to County Sign Regulations
The Arlington County Board will consider proposed amendments to the Arlington County Zoning Ordinance (Article 13, Signs) and the Arlington County Code (Chapter 17, Miscellaneous).  

Commercial Market Resiliency Initiative
The proposed amendments associated with Arlington County Zoning Ordinance (Article 13, Signs) represent the second phase of strategic updates to sign regulations under the Commercial Market Resiliency Initiative (CMRI). These changes seek to modernize Arlington’s regulatory framework to respond to economic shifts and support Arlington’s placemaking, and include:  

• Greater flexibility for types, size, and number of signs allowed in RA districts; 
• Allowance for signs and/or sign types within Public districts and on publicly owned property and that may include automatic changeable copy and off-premise advertising (i.e., advertising for businesses not immediately on the premises), in specified locations; 
• Changes to size and timing standards for certain automatic changeable copy signs; and
• Associated technical edits for consistency, organization, and readability. 

Median Signs in the Public Right-of-Way
If proposed amendments to Chapter 17, Miscellaneous, are adopted, all signs—regardless of their content—would be banned from county-owned public rights-of-way (ROW). The proposal from staff still permits temporary signs at polling places and private property, allowing alternative communication channels in other places. The recommendations were benchmarked against our neighboring jurisdictions (Alexandria, Falls Church, and Fairfax County) that already ban the placement of signage by private parties in their public ROWs.   

Item 33 – Ranked Choice Voting for Upcoming General Elections 
The Board will also deliberate and consider how to proceed with the use of Ranked Choice Voting in upcoming County Board general elections. This extension would allow the Board to continue to monitor implementation and public reception on the voting method.   

Arlington's County Board has 5 at-large members, who each serve staggered 4-year terms. One (1) seat is up for election every year, with two (2) seats up for election every fourth year. Prior to 2023, the Board exclusively used a winner-take-all voting method in both its primary and general elections. Under this method, voters vote for the number of open seats that year, and the candidate(s) must receive a majority or plurality of votes to win. 

Ranked choice voting (RCV) is a voting method in which voters rank candidates in order of preference. All 1st choice votes are counted. If no candidates receive the required number of votes to win, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated and ballots for that candidate are transferred to the voter's next choice. This process continues until candidates have enough votes to win. In one-seat elections, the threshold to win is 50 percent and one vote. In two-seat elections, candidates must secure 33 percent and one vote to win in an election determined by RCV.  

The Arlington County Board has incrementally expanded its use of RCV in its Board elections since 2022. RCV was first piloted in the June 2023 County Board primary and then adopted in December 2023 as the method for all future County Board primary elections. Since 2024, the County Board has piloted RCV in its general elections.  

On August 15, 2025, the Arlington County Board awarded grants to two non-profits organizations, Challenging Racism and FairVote (in partnership with Ranked Choice Virginia), for voter education and outreach efforts related to Ranked Choice Voting leading up to the November 2025 County Board General Election. At the Arlington County Board's February 2026 Recessed County Board meeting, Challenging Racism and Ranked Choice Virginia presented their reports to the Board publicly on this effort. The Board will consider this information as it continues to make decisions on the use of Ranked Choice Voting in upcoming County Board elections. 

Read the reports: Challenging Racism's Report on its Outreach and Education Efforts; Ranked Choice Virginia's Report on its Surveying and Evaluation Efforts.  

Tuesday, March 17, 2026 – Regular County Board Meeting

The Recessed Meeting will begin at 3:00 p.m. with reports from the Board and County Manager. Agenda items will be heard no earlier than 6:30 p.m.  

Item 34 – Arlington View Neighborhood Plan Update
The Board will also consider adopting a resolution to accept an update to the Arlington View Neighborhood Plan (AVNP). This plan contains 21 recommendations categorized into the following subject areas: Our Location, Our People, and Our History, Zoning, Land Use and Development, Infrastructure and Growth-Related Concerns, Traffic and Transportation Concerns, Public Facilities, and Public Services. If the plan is accepted, these recommendations will be considered by the County Manager in decision-making that affect the Arlington View neighborhood.  

Through a community lead process, the Arlington View Civic Association began their planning efforts in 2022 to update the AVNP (established in 1965).  

Their efforts included:  

• Holding several community conversations to gather feedback and then formed a planning committee to write and update their neighborhood plan; 
• Conducting outreach at community events, hosting listening sessions and gathering feedback from representatives of the multifamily complexes in the neighborhood and additional neighborhood groups;  
• Hand-delivering fliers to every home in the neighborhood with a QR code linked to the survey, as well as an option for anyone who wanted to request a paper copy;  
• Promoting survey participation in weekly emails; and 
• Working with Arlington Neighborhoods Program staff to complete and review this plan.  

The Civic Association adopted this plan in June 2025. The Arlington Neighborhoods Advisory Committee reviewed the plan on January 15, 2026, and recommended it be forwarded to the Planning Commission and County Board for acceptance, subject to comments at the end of report. Notably, Arlington View Civic Association members will be providing the presentation on this item.  

Arlington View is a small residential neighborhood located south of Columbia Pike in the southeastern portion of Arlington County, Virginia. It is home to just over 1,000 people living in 452 households and is one of Arlington’s historically Black neighborhoods. 

Public Hearings
The Board will hold a public hearing no earlier than 6:30 p.m. and consider Regular Hearing items first, followed by items pulled from the Saturday Consent Agenda.  

View the agenda and staff reports (Note: some reports are posted closer to the meeting date. 

 

 

 

Media Contact

David Barrera
Communications Manager
Arlington County Board Office
dbarrera@arlingtonva.us
703-228-3121

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