In bid for more housing, Alexandria ends single-family-only zoning

Alexandria lawmakers voted unanimously early Wednesday to eliminate single-family-only zoning in this Northern Virginia city, opening the door for the construction of buildings with as many as four units in any residential neighborhood in a functionally limited but controversial and symbolically weighty vote. The move, which further extends a hotly debated trend in urban planning to another corner of the D.C. region, was one of several zoning changes approved as part of the city’s ongoing “Zoning for Housing” initiative. As housing stock in the D.C. area has failed to keep...