Neighborhood Conservation Advisory Committee (NCAC)

The Neighborhood Conservation and Advisory Committee (NCAC) leads the development of neighborhood plans and recommends neighborhood-initiated capital improvements for funding by the County Board. Improvements include sidewalks, street beautification, pedestrian safety projects, street lights, and parks.

Each community that participates in the Neighborhood Conservation (NC) Program has an NC representative that serves as a liaison with County staff in the development of a neighborhood plan. The plan ultimately reflects the desires of the community as a whole. ODCA began work on its NC plan in 1994 and the plan was completed in 2002.

ODCA received funding for a beautification project of the triangle at the intersection of 24th Street and Old Dominion Drive. Landscaping improvements were made and a historical marker highlighting the significance of the location as the Livingstone railway stop along the Great Falls and Old Dominion Railroad line was installed in late 2021.

The Historical Marker reads in part:

This site marks the Livingstone Station stop along the Great Falls and Old Dominion Railroad electric trolley line.  The trolley carried passengers between Georgetown in Washington, D.C. and Great Falls, Virginia from 1906 to 1934.  This line connected to an extensive network of other rail lines across the region and was incorporated into the Washington and Old Dominion Railway in 1911.  The stop was named after Colin H. Livingstone, the Great Falls and Old Dominion railroad’s president, first president of the Boy Scouts of America, and developer of the Livingston Heights subdivision circa 1906.

The two stations in Livingstone Heights were Lyonhurst, at what is now Old Dominion Drive and 25th Street (then Cortelyou Avenue), and Livingstone Heights, at what is now Old Dominion Drive and 24th Street (then Livingstone Ave.).