What: a set of 2026 zoning text amendments: Historic Preservation changes, affordable housing on tax-exempt property with administrative site plans, and parking regulations.
Where it stands: Staff and commissioners have discussed drafts in work sessions and hearings from September to October; no final Council action is recorded.
September 1: Planning Commission discussed the affordable-housing and administrative site plan amendment; its 6 pm work session covered the draft Historic Preservation amendments.
September 11: a community meeting on zoning text amendments was held (video only, not watched).
October 6: a 6 pm work session covered a parking-regulation amendment.
October 7: the Board of Architectural Review held an information session on proposed amendments.
Initiated and recommended approval, 6-0: No. 2026-00006 (residential parking to state minimums), No. 2026-00004 (Virginia Faith in Housing Act and administrative site plans), No. 2026-00005 (historic preservation), No. 2026-00007 (RMF zone affordability after foreclosure).