Fairfax Presbyterian Church

Proposal at a glance

Tax map parcel(s): 57 1 02 123A, 57 1 02 122

Extracted from the city's submitted documents; each figure traces to the text it came from.

• Floor area (existing) — "existing 43,000 square foot church with day care and parking"
• Dwelling units (existing) — "The Property is currently used as a Religious Institution with an accessory Day Care Center."
• Dwelling units (proposed) — "the Property may be developed with up to ten (10) townhouses"
• Affordable units (proposed) — "ten new affordable residential townhouses in the northeast corner of the Property"
• Stories (proposed) — "All ten units will have three levels, three bedrooms, two bathrooms"
• Site area (proposed) — "Parcel 57-1-02-122-A (3.02 acres), and Parcel 57-1-02-123 (5.23 acres), for a total of 8.25 acres"

Official record

The applicant, Fairfax Presbyterian Church, is proposing to add ten (10) townhouses to be developed on site in conjunction with an existing church and day care. The ten (10) townhouses are proposed as rear entry garage units that range from 1,600 sf to 2,400 sf. A maximum height of 40 feet is anticipated for the proposed townhouses. There are 30 proposed parking spaces for the townhouses. The applicant intends to provide these units as affordable dwelling units in partnership with Habitat for Humanity of Northern Virginia, Inc. The proposed plan also rearranges parking for the existing church and day care.

• Requests: The applicant is requesting a Rezoning from RH Residential High to PD-M Planned Development-Mixed Use and approval of a Master Development Plan with modifications to allow ten (10) townhouses in addition to the existing 43,000 square foot church with day care and parking. The applicant also proposes to develop up to 30 parking spaces in the southwest corner of the property.
• Address: 10723 Main Street, Fairfax, VA 22030
• Applicant: Fairfax Presbyterian Church David S. Houston, Attorney Bean, Kinney & Korman, PC
• City record

2025-10-06 — HHCAB Regular Meeting

Agenda item 3: General Updates

• Outcome: Chair provided updates on the 2025 Housing Symposium and highlighted several upcoming meetings and events relevant to HHCAB's work.
• [3] A meeting with Fairfax Presbyterian Church and their development team (the Glebe View Project) is scheduled for October 9, 2025, with construction set to begin October 13, 2025; planning began in 2018 with a pre-application development brief in 2019.
• Status after: in_progress

Open questions

No unresolved questions recorded.

Member commentary

No recorded member positions yet.

Screening-level estimates of the economic and fiscal effects of Fairfax Presbyterian Church. Figures are decision-support context with named assumptions and sensitivity ranges — not predictions. The full analysis has the interactive assumptions panel and maps; methods documents every formula.

Headline estimates

• New residents: 17.1 (range 13.5 – 21.3) — households x persons per multifamily unit (Rutgers CUPR bedroom-mix multipliers)
• Annual capture: project's own ground-floor retail: $0 — Huff model over individual retail POIs: joint destination+mode choice, P(j,m) ~ A_j * w_m * exp(-b_m t_mj), CES category spend; clusters are a reporting rollup; own retail competes as a destination
• New annual spending arriving on foot: $25k (range $3,375 – $136k) — walk-mode share of the joint destination+mode Huff choice, summed over businesses; walking loses to driving with walk time, so the remainder of the mode-split budget arrives by car
• Real estate tax increase: −$206k (range −$207k – −$196k) — projected minus current RE tax
• Net annual fiscal impact — marginal framing: −$243k (range −$287k – −$205k) — incremental new recurring revenue minus service cost (only services that scale with new residents)

Method notes, caveats, and non-headline metrics live on the analysis page.