Court upholds Alexandria's waterfront development plan

The Alexandria Circuit Court on Friday dismissed a case challenging the legality of the city’s waterfront development plan, which claimed that the city council’s proposed revamping of the waterfront constituted “illegal spot zoning.”

The court dismissed the complaint “finding that the record of proceedings leading up to the approval of the plan made it clear as a matter of law that the Council had considered and weighed all of the issues that the plaintiffs claimed were not considered,” according to a statement from the city.