The Yorktown Civic Association is collecting data about the frequent accidents at the intersection of N Harrison Street and 26th Street N. YCA is working with Arlington County to address this intersection, but the solutions by the County, so far, have proven insufficient to improve the safety for pedestrians and drivers.
Our records of accidents are available here.
If you have records for more accidents, please provide the information to us in this form.
It’s time for the 9th annual Jennifer Bush-Lawson 5k & Family Fun Day at Knights of Columbus (5115 Little Falls Road). The 5K will start and finish at the Knights of Columbus and will wind through your neighborhood. In addition to raising funds to help low-income moms and babies receive high-quality prenatal care, we hope this 5K will provide an opportunity for the community to come together while participating in a healthy and fun activity.
If you are driving the morning of Saturday, November 18, 2023, please be aware that runners, walkers, volunteers and police will be on portions of the following roads:
The race begins at 9:00 a.m. and ends at approximately 10:00 a.m., with different roads being used at different times. Little Falls Road between Yorktown Blvd. and N. Edison St. will remain closed until 10:30am. Please refer to the course map printed on the back of the flyer for more detail. If you need to be somewhere Saturday morning during the race, please allow extra time.
This is a community event, and proceeds from this charity event will help low-income moms and babies. We ask for your patience with any inconvenience you may experience and for your feedback to help us make this annual event better each year.
We invite you to come out on race morning to run, walk or cheer the runners on. They would appreciate your support and encouragement. During and after the race (9:00am to 1:00pm), a Family Fun Day featuring food trucks, moon bounces, obstacle courses, balloon animals,
rock-climbing wall and more will be taking place at the Knights of Columbus. Please join us! For more information or to register for the race, please go to www.jb-lf.org. Thank you!
In accordance with Arlington County Fire Regulation, cars MAY NOT be parked on the street along the race route.
Download a PDF version of the map.
It’s time for the 8th annual Jennifer Bush-Lawson 5k & Family Fun Day at Knights of Columbus (5115 Little Falls Road). The 5K will start and finish at the Knights of Columbus and will wind through your neighborhood. We have had to modify our route this year and we are asking for your support to help us with this community event. In addition to raising funds to help low-income moms and babies receive high-quality prenatal care, we hope this 5K will provide an opportunity for the community to come together while participating in a healthy and fun activity.
If you are driving the morning of Saturday, November 19, 2022, please be aware that runners, walkers, volunteers and police will be on portions of the following roads:
The race begins at 9:00 a.m. and ends at approximately 10:00 a.m., with different roads being used at different times. Little Falls Road between Yorktown Blvd. and N. Edison St. will remain closed until 10:30am. Please refer to the course map printed on the back of this flyer for more detail. If you need to be somewhere Saturday morning during the race, please allow extra time.
This is a community event, and proceeds from this charity event will help low-income moms and babies. We ask for your patience with any inconvenience you may experience and for your feedback to help us make this annual event better each year.
We invite you to come out on race morning to run, walk or cheer the runners on. They would appreciate your support and encouragement. During and after the race (9:00am to 1:00pm), a Family Fun Day featuring food trucks, moon bounces, obstacle courses, balloon animals, rock-climbing wall and more will be taking place at the Knights of Columbus. Please join us! For more information or to register for the race, please go to www.jb-lf.org. Thank you!
Download a PDF version of the map.
Thursday, November 17, 2022 | 07:00 PM
As part of the Vision Zero action plan, they regularly review and evaluate critical crashes to identify actionable items that can be implemented and responded to quickly.
In response to the recent tragic crash fatality at the intersection of Little Falls Rd and John Marshall Blvd, the Vision Zero Critical Crash team has developed short-term safety improvements and enhancements options for this intersection.
At this meeting, you will:
The meeting will be held at Nottingham Elementary School in the multi-purpose room. Please use door #10 off Ohio Street.
If you plan to attend, please RSVP (optional).
“Arlington County Board and Plan Lee Highway Staff,
The Yorktown community includes many citizens who are deeply opposed to the increased density in each of the proposed Plan Lee Highway scenarios. Our community also includes many residents who welcome aspects of the plan. There are, however, a few things we can all agree on:
First, we would like a commitment from the county board that they will plan and budget for the purchase of land for green space and public use in our area. It is not sufficient to hope that private developers will subsidize the cost of green space in the future. According to a recent review by the Arlington County Civic Federation, the county has underinvested in public land park acquisition for over a decade. As a result, there is less park land acreage per 1,000 residents today than at any other time in the last 50 years. Increasing the density along Lee Highway without adding additional open space will further reduce the amount of park land per capita. In our area, we are lucky to have public spaces that are heavily used by existing residents. In order to maintain quality of life with increased density, more public spaces are necessary. Monies for those spaces should be considered and budgeted alongside the revised general land use plan for Lee Highway.
Second, we would like a commitment from the county board that they will plan and budget for schools and infrastructure commensurate with the increased density and population growth along Lee Highway. Planning for private development without planning for public infrastructure will necessarily lead to underinvestment and a more-expensive, less-thought-out game of catch-up in the future.
Third, we would like a commitment from the county board that they will not use eminent domain, now or at any point in the future, to achieve any portion of the Plan Lee Highway use scenarios. Our neighbors want assurance that they will retain the ability to decide what to do with their own property, even as the area may be changing.
Thank you for your consideration. We welcome further dialog with our civic association about this planning process.
Sincerely,
Mike Cantwell
President – Yorktown Civic Association
Amelia Frenkel
Vice President – Yorktown Civic Association”
“Dear Mr. Cantwell,
Thank you for your message and for sharing your thoughts concerning the Plan Lee Highway study. I’m responding on behalf of my colleagues, and please know that your email and perspectives have been shared with and read by each member of the Board.
First, I’d like to underscore that the study is in its early stages. County staff, and PLH civic leaders, have sought to shape a process where community members can weigh in with your priorities and the positives and negatives of the various scenarios.
We appreciate that you’ve done so – and in your comments, as well as in those of your neighbors, it’s clear how much you value both the environment and quality of life in your community currently. Thank you for taking the time to share stories, as well as perspectives and concerns, with us on the County Board.
As you may know, Plan Lee Highway is designed to build upon the community’s vision and guiding principles as we work to create a walkable, “Main Street” type corridor, looking at everything from multi-modal transportation options to responsible development and public facilities. Currently, County government and civic partners from Lyon Village and other neighborhoods along the corridor are developing ideas and offering different possibilities to the community so we can better understand the impacts and benefits of different types of development along the corridor. These plans are also designed to explore and evaluate how government and the private sector can work together to help achieve the community’s aspirations for this “Main Street.” The goal of this phase is to open the door to meaningful discussions with the community so that staff can make informed decisions as the proposal evolves. With community feedback on preliminary land use concepts, the Planning Team will be refining the ideas and developing a Preferred Concept Plan which will be shared with the community in Fall 2021. Again, no conclusions or decisions have been made at this time.
The land use scenarios currently under discussion were developed with a number of things in mind, including the community feedback received during last year’s workshops. You may find it of interest to visit the Plan Lee Highway project page to review the latest presentation materials and reports. On this page, there is also a link to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) which provides answers to many key questions and concerns about the effort.
The most important thing to emphasize from these FAQs: The County has no plans to rezone existing single-family residential properties and will not be seizing private property through eminent domain as a part of this project. Regardless of what scenarios or zoning tools are ultimately recommended in the Plan Lee Highway study, each property owner will make their own decisions about whether to maintain their property unchanged, or whether to pursue changes and how.
We thank you again for reaching out with your concerns, as well as your meaningful reflections about what makes your Arlington neighborhood special, and we encourage you to stay engaged in the process.
Sincerely,
Katie Cristol
Vice Chair, Arlington County Board”
Arlington County recently installed traffic control measures at two major intersections in the YCA. The committee tried an innovative approach in reaching out to county officials. The group met at the intersection of 26th and Harrison on a Friday at 3 p.m. just as YHS students were coming out. This proved persuasive, convincing officials that something needed to be done.
The group also looked at the intersection of George Mason Drive and Yorktown. This site regularly sees minor accidents and close calls. This intersection also now has safety measures to protect pedestrians and realigned vehicle lanes. One member of the committee noted that, on his own, he had raised issues about the intersection near his house to no avail. When he linked up with others and worked through YCA, something positive happened. Nobody can guarantee such results every time, but there’s a lot of power in working together.
by James Churbuck
[email protected]
The Arlington County Neighborhood Traffic Calming Committee (NTCC) has selected Little Falls Road and N. 27th Street as candidates for traffic calming during its fall funding round.
The two streets are being considered as separate projects, and county staff has already held preliminary meetings with residents of each street to begin the planning process for each project.
The Little Falls Road project runs between the Harrison Street and Yorktown Boulevard intersections. Daphne Lathouras has volunteered to serve as the neighborhood block captain. The county has assigned Betty Diggs to staff the project. She can be reached at 703/228-3202 and [email protected]. Traffic calming solutions under consideration include nubs at the Harrison and Yorktown Blvd. intersections, along with possible speed cushions. An open house has been scheduled for November 8 at 7:30 p.m. at the Yorktown High cafeteria to review solutions.
Twenty-Seventh Street between N. Lexington and N. Harrison Streets has been selected by the NTCC under its expedited speed bump alternative. Therefore, speed bumps are the only traffic calming solution available for consideration by residents. Karen White has volunteered to serve as the neighborhood block captain for that project. Ron Hicks is the county staff member serving the project. Ron can be reached at 703/228-3691 or by e-mail at [email protected]. An open house has been scheduled for Tuesday, October 19, at 7:30 p.m. at the Yorktown High cafeteria to discuss this project. 27th Street (west of N. Jefferson) is the boundary between the Yorktown and Leeway-Overlee civic associations so residents of that civic association are also involved in the project.
Even though project solutions are developed by residents of each street, program guidelines require that 60% of affected residents sign petitions in support of the projects before funding will be approved by the county. Petitions will be circulated after each of the block meetings.
Residents on adjoining cul de sacs are defined as “affected residents” and are also petitioned. Thus, all houses on the Jefferson Street cul de sac will be petitioned as part of the 27th Street project.
Extra points are given to any project receiving civic association support, so there will be votes on each project at the YCA fall meeting on October 20.
If the projects are approved by residents and the county, installation of speed bumps could be expected as early as mid-2005 with construction of other enhancements to follow at a later date.
County Transportation Dept. to Conduct Planning Excercise
| Time and Place: | Tuesday, April 20, 2004 Yorktown High School cafeteria 7:30 p.m. |
Arlington County transportation officials will be seeking neighborhood input on traffic speed and pedestrian safety concerns in the segment of North Harrison Street from Lee Highway through the Little Falls Road intersection. The meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 20, 2004, in the Yorktown High School cafeteria. The meeting will involve tabletop planning excercises to help facilitate discussion of possible solutions.
Residents will also be provided with an update of a major effort underway to develop traffic calming options for arterial streets, as well as an update of the residential traffic calming program. This segment of Harrison Street is classified as an arterial street and is not eligible for speed bumps and other traffic calming measures that can be taken as part of the residential traffic calming program. However, it has been included as one of 10 arterial streets in Arlington to be analyzed as part of the arterial street study.
Other topics may include:
On Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2004, members of the Arlington County Neighborhood Traffic Calming Program approved consideration of N. 25th and 26th Streets between George Mason Drive and Glebe Road for consideration of traffic calming measures. Traffic calming assistance was requested by several residents on each street. An organizational meeting for this effort was held on Feb. 25, followed by additional meetings to discuss project options.
The selected options will be presented to area residents in an open house on Wednesday, April 14, 2004, at 7:30 p.m. at Yorktown High School in the cafeteria. The plans include gateways (street narrowing with stamped pavement) at the George Mason and Glebe Highway ends of both streets. Several speed bumps would be installed on both streets, and traffic circles are also being considered for 25th Street.
At the open house, people within the neighborhood that have not attended the design and project development meetings can ask questions about the project.
Before the project goes forward to the county for funding and construction, 60% of the residents within the project area must sign petitions in support of the project. About 200 households will be included in the petition area for these projects. The signature area includes all homes on the affected streets, as well as immediate side streets. After the signatures are collected, the project goes back to the Arlington County Neighborhood Traffic Calming Committee for its approval. The final step is approval by the County Board.
The majority of the households in the project area are in the Yorktown Civic Association. However, the Old Dominion Civic Association includes the households east of Columbus Street and south of 26th Street (the north side of 26th St. east of Columbus in the the Yorktown Association). The Yorktown Civic Association executive committee voted in support of this project at its March, 2003, meeting.
As part of this effort, the 25th Street residents have also signed petitions for the installation of sidewalks since no sidewalks exist today on either side of the street west of the intersection of 26th Street and Columbus. The Civic Association must pursue funding for the sidewalks separately through the County’s Neighborhood Conservation program.