Wo rking Gro up Car eer Center Final Report October 4, 2018 - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

October 4, 2018 Car eer Center Wo rking Gro up

Final Report

Career Center Working Group Charge

June 2017, School Board adopted plan for 700-800 HS seats on the Career Center site. The CCWG was asked to:

• Plan to define how APS opens seats at CC by 2022
• Analyze, evaluate, and plan how to optimize Career Center site and how

to accommodate a fourth HS

• Determine long-term plan for Columbia Pike Library
• Identify needed facilities, transportation and parking goals
• Develop phased plan for development

Joint project of Arlington County and APS

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Process and Timeline

• 34 stakeholders
• 8 months (Jan-Aug 2018)
• 18 meetings

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Study Area

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Meeting the Charge

• Items impacting CCWG conversations and recommendations:
• Revised High School Projections
• Available Funding and Timing for the Phased Development Plan
• Maximum (Long-Term) Capacity for High School Seats at the Career

Center Site

• Distinction between APS Neighborhood High Schools VS Secondary

Option Programs

• Access to Sports Facilities

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Overall Vision for the Career Center Site

• Create the “Jewel of the Pike”
• Improve upon available amenities
• Contribute to place-making on Columbia Pike
• Create a building exterior to equal the excellent education offered within
• Near-Term (CIP FY2019-2028)
• Add 800 students while retaining existing CC programs, including Arlington Tech

expansion, Arlington Community High School, Montessori program and Columbia Pike Library

• Long-Term (beyond 2028)
• Site should become a high school campus
• Until most facilities delivered, high school seats should remain Option seats
• Additional site density possible subject to on-site facilities & parking

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Areas of Consensus

• Site Facilities
• Open Space
• Building Design
• Sustainability
• Massing and Density
• Site Phasing
• Parking, Transportation and Transportation Demand

Management (TDM)

• Public Library and South Block

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Recommendations

• Site Facilities
• Build for maximum future adaptability and growth, including common spaces
• All Arlington students deserve quality indoor and outdoor spaces
• With additional facilities built, most after-school sports and club activities may be

accommodated

• APS facilities designed to allow maximum use by the community
• Underground structures designed to allow for re-orientation of future fields
• Open Space
• Existing uses of sports facilities throughout the County must be revisited to ensure

students have opportunities to play sports

• Informal and passive open space should be included, in addition to sports fields
• Exterior lighting designed to minimize light pollution/spillover into neighborhood

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Recommendations

• Building Design
• Emphasize glass and natural light
• Build with Universal Design in mind
• Consider need for future expansion and flexibility
• Locate high-bay CTE spaces partially below grade
• Ensure any onsite parking is underground and adaptable to future educational uses
• Maximize use of the roofs for school and/or environmental uses (gardens, useable green roofs, solar

panels)

• Sustainability
• Emphasis on energy conservation and sustainability through architecture design, materials and

construction methods

• Renewable energy strategically considered by BLPC/PFRC for both near-term and long-term

phases as vision is incrementally achieved

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Recommendations

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• Massing and Density
• S. Highland Street

setback to reflect residential setbacks to create cohesive character

• Buildings should transition

up from proximity to homes

Recommendations

• Site Phasing (Near-Term)
• Majority of facilities identified in FY2019-28 CIP
• Build any underground parking with multi-use

field at grade

• Relocate CTE spaces to new S. Highland

building

• Build 3rd story on top of existing Career Center

building

• Create multi-level education space along 9th

and S. Walter Reed, including common spaces

• Build as large as possible now, even if some

floors are roughed out for future use

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Recommendations

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• Site Phasing (Long-

Term)

• Complete roughed-out

areas for educational spaces

• Relocate Montessori

program to another site

• Raze Patrick Henry

building to expand sports facilities and green space

• Build a pool for education

and community uses

Recommendations

• Parking, Transportation and TDM
• Provide assessment of parking needs for a neighborhood and option

school at this site

• Study whether a robust TDM program could reduce overall parking

needs

• Inform a parking program to include a balance of on-site and off-site

parking

• Consider costs, site constraints and neighborhood concerns
• Any further lease or an acquisition of ECDC parking garage should be

informed by structural assessment

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Recommendations

• Public Library and South Block
• County should acquire the South Block properties willing to sell
• Relocate Columbia Pike Library to anchor new development fronting

Columbia Pike

• Plan for cultural uses, such as museums, gallery spaces and

performing arts space

• Street frontage for student services to be offered to community

(hairstyling, barber, auto services, pop-up restaurant, computer repair)

• Space for higher education classrooms, and partnerships with local

colleges and universities to build out site

• Relocate Arlington Community High School, if space would be superior

to the current space

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Follow-On Work

• The CCWG recommends the following:
• Visioning process to identify APS school sites and define buildings of

the future

• Comprehensive assessment of field spaces and athletic uses
• South Block acquisition and development
• Parking, Transportation and TDM study
• Integration of site history into the development of the Career Center

site, including an archeological assessment prior to construction and monitoring during construction

• That each of these be acted upon and overseen jointly by the County

and School Boards

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Next Steps

• Before Fall 2019
• All recommendations for follow-on work area acted upon
• Parking and transportation study is completed
• Fall 2019
• Building Level Planning Committee (BLPC)
• Public Facilities Review Committee (PFRC)

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“Cooperative, coordinated, long-range planning processes are Arlington’s best opportunity to continue delivering the excellent education provided by APS while finding comprehensive solutions that make efficient use

• f our limited land and dollars.”
• p. 53, Career Center Working Group Final Report, 2018

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