Curvilinear streets on the ridge west of Del Ray, a median lot near 7,200 square feet, and an elementary attendance line that runs through the neighborhood.
Two corrections before anything else. The name keeps its medial ‘e’ — Beverley Hills, not Beverly — and while ‘Beverly Hills’ shows up often enough in listing feeds and search boxes to be worth carrying as a variant spelling, it is neither the neighborhood’s name nor any relation to the California city. And Beverley Hills is not in Del Ray. It sits west of Russell Road, the street the Del Ray Citizens Association gives as Del Ray’s western edge, and the civic body that speaks for it is the North Ridge Citizens Association. Read Del Ray’s zoning and drainage history as though it applied here and you will be wrong on nearly every practical point.
The street pattern is the first thing you notice and the thing that dates the place. Where Del Ray was platted in 1894 on a tight rectilinear grid laid deliberately askew from Old Town’s, Beverley Hills curves — its streets follow the contours of the ridge rather than cutting across them, in the manner of the picturesque suburban planning that displaced the grid in American subdivision design. The consequence for a buyer is topography. Lots slope, driveways climb, and grade varies enough from one side of a street to the other that two comparable houses can have very different basement conditions, retaining-wall obligations and drainage behavior. Walk the low side of the lot in the rain if you can, and read the grading before you read the finishes.
Beverley Hills is zoned R-8, with a median lot around 7,200 square feet. Set that against Del Ray, where much of the residential land is R-2-5 and where the binding constraint on an addition is usually the 0.45 floor area ratio on a 5,000-square-foot minimum lot. More land generally means more room to work with, but the arithmetic still governs — run the floor area ratio for the actual parcel before you commit to a floor plan, because a ridge lot with a steep rear yard may have less usable area than its square footage suggests. Alexandria’s Zoning for Housing / Housing for All package, adopted November 28, 2023, was upheld at circuit court in Burks v. City of Alexandria on November 12, 2025 and was on appeal to the Virginia Court of Appeals as of August 2026, with the framework in effect and no appellate decision entered. Confirm the zone and what it permits with Alexandria Planning and Zoning for the specific address.
This is the detail no listing sheet will get right. Beverley Hills does not sit inside a single elementary attendance area: the boundary between Charles Barrett Elementary and George Mason Elementary runs through the neighborhood, so two addresses a few blocks apart can be assigned to different schools. That makes the ACPS Attendance Zone Locator, run on the exact address, a non-optional step — and it matters more than usual right now, because the School Board approved new elementary and middle school boundaries on June 12, 2025 that took effect with the 2026–27 school year and affected roughly 1,400 enrolled students citywide. Middle school assignment should be confirmed the same way. At the high school level there is nothing to sort out: as of August 2026, Alexandria City Public Schools operated one comprehensive high school, Alexandria City High School, and no address in the city is served by Fairfax County schools at any level.
Beverley Hills carries no historic district designation of any kind — not the local architectural review that governs the Old and Historic Alexandria and Parker-Gray districts, and not the honorary National Register listing that covers Del Ray’s Town of Potomac district and neighboring Rosemont. Exterior work here is a building-permit question rather than a design-review one. The one citywide exception still applies: under Article 10-300 of the Zoning Ordinance, as in force in August 2026, City Council can individually designate a One Hundred Year Old Building anywhere outside those two districts, which then requires Board of Architectural Review approval — worth checking on an older house. Mapped floodplain and Resource Protection Area coverage are likewise minimal here, a real contrast with the blocks downhill. That is not immunity. Alexandria’s own guidance is that extremely high-intensity storms flood properties in no designated floodplain at all, and on sloped ground the failure mode is surface water arriving from uphill rather than a stream rising. Ask about the last heavy storm, and inspect the grading, the window wells and where the downspouts discharge.
Beverley Hills sits within Del Ray — that guide covers the zoning, permitting and site constraints that apply across the wider area.
Artur can confirm what applies to a specific address here — lot, zoning, association documents and school assignment — before you write an offer.
