Braddock Metro Neighborhood Plan
City of Alexandria
Alexandria, Virginia
The City of Alexandria hired Goody Clancy to work closely with a racially and economically diverse neighborhood to create a vision, redevelopment framework, and strategy that would enable the city and the neighborhood to manage significant development spurred by proximity to the Braddock Road Metro Station. Goody Clancy participated in a “town meeting” that represented a new start for the stalled planning process and led a series of community education workshops, a charrette, and in-depth working sessions. The plan, which promoted significant community amenities such as parks, neighborhood-serving retail and walkable streets, along with public housing rebuilt as true mixed-income communities, was adopted by the City Council in March 2008.
Project Highlights
PRINCIPLES FOR THE BRADDOCK METRO NEIGHBORHOOD
- Create a sense of place/neighborhood identity, vitality, and diversity.
- Provide walkable neighborhoods that are secure and feel safe.
- Establish a variety of communityserving, usable open spaces.
- Encourage community-serving retail and services.
- Encourage mixed-income housing and follow an open, fair, and inclusive process to de-concentrate public housing.
- Manage multimodal transportation, parking, and road infraastructure.
- Achieve varying and transitional heights and scales.