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Third Avenue Investments, LLC won approval from the County Board on Saturday, July 18, for an amendment to a site plan originally approved in 2007 for a mixed-use building at 3001 Jefferson Davis Highway, Potomac Yard Land Bay D-West. The amendment will allow the developer to build a church in the 12-story residential building it plans, instead of much of the groundfloor retail approved in the original site plan.

Arlington County today advised the public to avoid water downstream of Four Mile Run below South Walter Reed Drive because of petroleum product discharge. The spill was reported shortly before 11 a.m. today. Arlington County Fire Department and the Department of Environmental Services are on-scene investigating the source of the contamination and have placed booms to contain released product. The size of the spill has not yet been determined.

U.S. Senator Tim Kaine released the following statement on the Supreme Court’s decision in Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project

The House Judiciary Committee recently learned that the Obama Administration has begun to implement its Priority Enforcement Program (PEP), which replaces the successful Secure Communities program and allows significant numbers of criminal aliens to remain in the United States. PEP is part of the unilateral changes to the U.S. immigration system announced by President Obama on November 20, 2014

Governor McAuliffe today announced the launch of a 100-day challenge to kick off the Commonwealth’s Housing and Supportive Services (HSS) initiative to increase integrated, independent housing options for people with an intellectual or developmental disability in the Northern Virginia, Hampton Roads and Richmond regions.

The City's Department of Transportation & Environmental Services (T&ES), Transportation Planning Division will hold a public information meeting on the King Street, Callahan Drive & Russell Road Intersection Safety project on Tuesday, June 23, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Durant Center, 1605 Cameron Street.

AMSEC LLC, which provides technical services, IT solutions, maintenance and more to the U.S. Navy and various Defense Department and commercial clients, has renewed its lease and is upgrading its offices at the NetCenter on Mercury Boulevard

The Arlington County Board today instructed the County Manager to explore options for creating a public-private partnership with owner Forest City Enterprises to redevelop the aging Ballston Common Mall. The Board directed the Manager to report back to the Board with an outline of a possible agreement within the next 30 days.

U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and Roy Blunt (R-MO) led a bipartisan coalition of eleven Senators in introducing legislation to establish a new infrastructure financing authority to help states and localities better leverage private funds to build and maintain the nation’s outdated infrastructure.

Congressman J. Randy Forbes (VA-04), Chairman of the House Armed Services Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee, will chair a hearing on the “Capacity of U.S. Navy to Project Power with Large Surface Combatants” on Wednesday, June 17, 2015 at 2:00 PM.