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The Arlington County Board today approved the first increase since 2004 in relocation payments for tenants who are displaced by housing demolition, substantial rehabilitation or conversion from residential to non-residential use. The increase takes effect July 1.

For the third consecutive year, the number of persons who are homeless in Arlington has dropped, down 27 percent in January 2016 as compared to January 2015. The data comes from the community’s annual Point-in-Time Count. The total for the 2016 count was 174, down from 239 in 2015.

Effective immediately, customers can choose to submit in paper or electronically for Building Permit and Land Disturbance Applications. The County is making both options available, to make it easier for customers to submit their applications.

U.S. Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, along with Representatives Rob Wittman, Randy Forbes and Morgan Griffith, sent a letter to President Obama supporting Governor Terry McAuliffe’s request that the administration declare a major disaster declaration in response to the severe storm and deadly tornadoes on February 24, 2016. The storms impacted 12 localities in total and had a particularly destructive impact on Sussex, Appomattox and Essex Counties.

U.S. Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine joined a bipartisan group of 42 current and former Senators and 164 current and former House members from 38 states as well as the District of Columbia and the Northern Mariana Islands in filing an amicus brief in support of the Obama administration’s historic ‘Clean Power Plan’ (CPP). The CPP will reduce carbon pollution and address climate change, save consumers $155 billion by 2030, create jobs, and prevent 90,000 childhood asthma attacks through 2030‎

The Arlington County Fire Department (ACFD) and Red Cross in the National Capital Region are teaming up to reduce the number of fire-related injuries and fatalities by ensuring residents have working smoke alarms. Firefighters and Red Cross volunteers will kick off this initiative Saturday, April 2, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., by going door-to-door in the Douglas Park and Nauck neighborhoods, near Fire Station 9, to offer smoke alarm inspections and home fire safety checks. The teams will install free smoke alarms in homes that need them.

U.S. Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Tim Kaine (D- Va.) (both D- Va.) are calling on congressional appropriators to fully fund the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) at authorized levels.

Governor Terry McAuliffe today announced the designation of four communities in the Virginia Main Street (VMS) program, administered by the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD). The newly-designated communities include the town of Wytheville, the cities of Danville and Lexington and Gloucester Courthouse in Gloucester County. The communities were selected based on their Main Street organization’s preparedness to identify, plan and implement programs and services for the defined downtown district, the target area of responsibility

The Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) announced today the launch of a new housing pilot program with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Rural Development (USDA-RD). Through the program, DHCD’s Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) will be acquiring, renovating and reselling 39 USDA-RD foreclosed properties across Virginia.

Congressman Rob Wittman (VA-1) issued the following statement in response to the President’s nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to serve as the next Associate Justice of the Supreme Court