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LHA has selected 25 members of the Lee Highway community to serve on the "Working Group on Renaming Lee Highway." The members (see below) are comprised of representatives from LHA's Community Advisory Committee (CAC) and Lee Highway Civic Associations, local business/property owners, members of the LHA Steering Committee, Lee Highway residents, and local activists.
The Group's work will be completed based on a charge that defines preferred outcomes, criteria for new words (see below), an outline of the process, and describes LHA's Guiding Principles. They will meet four times via zoom and all meetings will be open to the public. Meetings dates are:
The Lee Highway community can view these meetings live and submit their questions and concerns to be answered. A recording of each meeting will also be available to those unable to watch live. Meeting links, documents, and recorded videos can be found on the Links & Documents page. In addition to the Working Group, LHA has appointed members to five Advisory Groups: the Branding Advisory Group, the Business & Property Owners Advisory Group, the Institutional Advisory Group, the Transportation Advisory Group, and the Neighborhood Advisory Group. Such groups will provide additional support to the renaming process and help to include the greater Lee Highway community. Working Group MembersMatthew Weinstein, Chair, Working Group, LHA Board Member & Steering Committee
Grace Abi-Najm Shea, Executive Vice President, Lebanese Taverna Bill Braswell, CAC Member, Tara Leeway Heights Civic Association Ginger Brown, LHA Executive Director & Steering Committee Mike Cantwell, LHA Board & CAC Member, President of Yorktown Civic Association Sandra Chesrown, LHA Board & Steering Committee, Plan Lee Highway Vice Chair E. Lynn Coates, Arlington Arts Alliance & South Arlington Resident Elaine Furlow, LHA Board & Steering Committee, Chair of Communications Committee Saundra Green, CAC Member, Calloway Church Lauren Harris, Owner & Director, Little Ambassadors Academy Mike Hogan, CAC Member, Old Dominion Civic Association Paul Holland, LHA Steering Committee, Plan Lee Highway Chair, Waverly Hills Civic Association Wilma Jones, CAC Member, President of John M. Langston Civic Association Jeff Joseph, Board Member, R.E.A.D. Minneh Kane, Woodmont Resident & Fiscal Affairs Advisory Commission Member Ben Keeney, CAC Member, North Highlands Civic Association Diane Kelly, CAC Member, President of Waycroft Woodlawn Civic Association Anika Kwinana, Chair, Arlington Commission for the Arts & Arlington for Justice Steering Committee Member Annie Moyer, Owner, Sun Moon Yoga Maia Potok-Holmes, LHA Communications Manager & Steering Committee Richard Price, LHA Board & CAC Member, Woodmont Civic Association Andy Rude, CAC Member, Lyon Village Civic Association Julius D. Spain, Sr., Arlington Branch President and Regional VP, NAACP Jim Todd, CAC Member, President of Cherrydale Civic Association Tom Wolfe, CAC Member, Leeway Overlee Civic Association Branding Advisory GroupEllen Booth, Communications Consultant, Waverly Hills Resident
Patrick Brennan, CAC Member, Maywood Civic Association Pamela Gillen, Principal, ESOARC Architects, LHA Board Greg Hamilton, Publisher & Co-Founder, Arlington Magazine Amber Haynes, Graphic Designer, Halls Hill Resident Rick Morris, Executive VP, Smith & Harroff, Rock Springs Resident Don Partlan, Landscape Architect, Waverly Hills Resident Desiree Stoler, Senior Director, Management Leadership for Tomorrow, North Rosslyn Resident Business & Property Owners Advisory Group
Michele Horwitz Cornwell, Lyon Village Shopping Center
Tim Hughes, Managing Shareholder, Bean Kinney & Korman & Arlington's Leadership Center for Excellence Board Member Connie Kousis, Lee Lexington Shopping Center Laura London, Associate Director of Real Estate Development, Arlington Partnership for Affordable Housing & LHA Board Matthew Rowan, Vice President of Residential Lighting, Dominion Lighting Institutional Advisory GroupKathy Dwyer, Senior Pastor, Rock Spring United Church of Christ
Renee Harbor, Principal, Swanson Middle School Barbara Kanninen, Board Member, Arlington Public Schools Whytni Kernodle, Co-Founder, Black Parents of Arlington Gordon Mantler, Parishoner, St. Mary's Church Daniel Seikaly, Glebewood Civic Association Maura Seikaly, Glebewood Civic Association Michael Weinstein, Lee Communications Center Ellen Smith, Principal, Dorothy Hamm Middle School Transportation Advisory GroupChristopher Forinash, Transportation Expert, Old Dominion Civic Association
In consultation with County DES/CPHD staff and VDOT
Working Group Criteria
No new name could satisfy all or even most of the criteria. Yet the criteria overall should guide discussion and decision-making.
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