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ARLnow Daily Update: October 19, 2026 · ARLnow Daily Update

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  It's Monday, October 19th. This is the ARL Now daily update. Body camera footage of a fatal police shooting on Columbia Pike still hasn't been released, despite a county board deadline of Friday.
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  County manager Mark Schwartz told the board on Saturday he expects the video out later this week. Police say Sean Vallon brandished a knife before officers killed him at a 7-Eleven in May. Board member J.D.
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  Spain said, "It's been five months. We have not delivered." Getting towed from private property in Arlington could soon cost more.
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  The county board will hold a November hearing on raising the maximum tow fee from one hundred and sixty dollars to two hundred and ten, the most state law allows.
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  The board could also keep the current rate or pick something in between. Some affordable housing advocates doubt a county working group will deliver real results.
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  The panel, which includes developers, is reviewing Arlington's affordable housing ordinance after the county failed to win more authority from the general assembly.
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  Housing Commission Chair Kellan Macbeth said he's not optimistic about a substantive solution. Its possibly final meeting is October twenty-sixth. Arlington wants to expand its mental health court to some felony cases.
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  On Saturday, the county board approved an agreement backing a circuit court behavioral health docket, which still needs the Virginia Supreme Court's approval.
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  People with serious mental illness could get court-supervised treatment instead of jail.
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  Just across the river, President Trump says he'll close the East Potomac Golf Course for fifteen months of renovations starting in mid-November. A federal judge has paused the project until at least October twenty-sixth.
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  Representative Don Beyer, who represents Arlington, called the plan a disgrace, saying it would cut off roads and paths that local cyclists and walkers use.
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  Arlington ranks fifth in Apartment List's new Best Cities for Renters survey, scoring high on economic opportunity and lifestyle. Affordability is another story.
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  Apartment List puts the median one bedroom rent here at about twenty-four hundred and fifty dollars a month. Drivers on Military Road should plan on detours through Sunday.
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  Part of the roundabout at Nelly Custis Drive is closed to eastbound and southbound traffic, which the project team blames on an unforeseen lack of space. School buses and one Arlington Transit route are detouring.
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  The permanent roundabout should be finished next summer. In Ballston, a wellness studio and medical spa plan to open in January in the former Grand Cru wine bar space on Wilson Boulevard.
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  Evexia Biostudio will offer cold plunges, cryotherapy, and infrared saunas in private suites next to the company's second Evexia Med Spa. And the Ballston and Pizza is open again.
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  Arlington's only location of the chain closed early this month for electrical repairs and reopened last week, a company spokesperson said. This sponsored update is from Kathy Rehill.
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  The featured listing is a three bedroom, two bath condo at forty-one forty-one North Henderson Road in Ballston, listed at six hundred and twenty-nine thousand dollars.
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  It has about eighteen hundred square feet, updated floors and kitchen, a private balcony, and a walk to Metro. That's all for today. Thank you for listening.