Advisory Groups, Authorities, & Commissions
Planning Commission's Committees - SPRC
Site Plan Review Committee (SPRC)
The Site Plan Review Committee (SPRC) was formed in the early 1970's at the request of the County Board as a Committee of the Planning Commission. Formation of the SPRC was an attempt to provide for a forum to resolve site plan issues before the proposals got to public hearing, in order to reduce the number of deferrals and length of discussion necessary at public hearings.
The Site Plan Review Committee reviews all site plans and major site plan amendments requests which are submitted to the County Board and the Planning Commission for consideration. The major responsibilities of the Site Plan Review Committee are the following:
- Review site plan or major site plan amendment requests in detail.
- Advise the Planning Commission by recommending the appropriate action in regard to a specific plan and any conditions which it might determine to be necessary or appropriate.
- Provide a forum by which interested citizens, civic associations and neighborhood conservation committees can review and comment on a particular plan, or the effects that the proposed project might have on the neighborhood.
As stated above, the SPRC currently consists of Planning Commissioners and members of other County Board appointed Commissions also serve on the SPRC. Commissions who wish to have representation on the SPRC have done so, again subject to requesting the SPRC Chairman that they have representation and notifying the staff coordinator. Some Commissions choose to have an alternate member in case the primary member is not available for a specific meeting; both representatives are listed on the SPRC membership list.
In addition, a number of citizen members (including ex-Planning Commissioners) also serve on the SPRC. The ex-Planning Commissioners serve either because they have been requested to by the SPRC Chairman or because they have requested themselves. In any case where there is some question as to membership, the policy has been that the SPRC Chairman and the Chairman of the Planning Commission must agree on the appointment.
In April, 2004, two documents were developed to guide the operation of SPRC:
- Site Plan Review Committee Operating Guide (9.8MB, PDF info)
- Site Plan Chair Guide (9.8MB, PDF info)
Please check these web pages for Further Site Plan Information and Meeting Schedules.
Planning Commissioner Steve Cole, SPRC Chair
Members of the Planning Commission
Advisory Group Representatives:
- Arlington Commission for the Arts
- Arlington County Civic Federation
- Environment and Energy Conservation Commission
- Historic Affairs and Landmark Review Board
- Housing Commission
- Neighborhood Conservation Advisory Committee
- Parks and Recreation Commission
- Pedestrian Advisory Committee
- Transit Advisory Committee
- Transportation Commission
- Urban Forestry Commission
- Citizen Representatives
- Staff Site Plan Review Team
- Membership specific to the Site Plan Proposal
- Representative(s) of impacted Civic Association
- Representative(s) of impacted NCAC
- Representative(s) of impacted public-private revitalization organizations
- Tenant-Landlord Commission (if applicable)
Arlington Commission for the Arts
Arlington County Civic Federation
Environment and Energy Conservation Commission
Historic Affairs and Landmark Review Board
Neighborhood Conservation Advisory Committee
- Jim Feaster, Chair
- Liz McGonigle, Vice-Chair
Parks and Recreation Commission
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Staff Site Plan Review Team (DCPHD Planning Division):
- Freida Wray
- Samia Byrd, SPRC Coordinator
- Aaron Shriber
- Marco Rivero
- Jason Beske
- Elizabeth Kays
- Peter Schulz
- Brett Wallace