Development project

Lamb Center/Wesley Housing

Under Construction

Private Development · 9640 Fairfax Blvd, Fairfax, VA 22030 · topic history · city record ↗

A maintained knowledge base built from council meetings and official records — updated as new meetings land. Last synced Aug 22, 2026.

Overview

through Jul 19, 2026

Proposal at a glance

	Existing	Proposed
Use	12-room Hy-Way Motel (hotel/motel)	—
Dwelling units	—	54
Affordable units	—	54
Office	—	1,400 sq ft
Stories	—	5
Parking spaces	—	18
Site area	—	0.41 acres

Tax map parcel(s): 48 3 09 020

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

Dwelling units (proposed) — "The 54 residential units will be located on floors 2-5"
Affordable units (proposed) — "offering all 54 units to persons at 50% or below of area medium income"
Office (proposed) — "54 permanent supportive housing units and 1,400 SF of office space"
Stories (proposed) — "concept diagram shows a new, five-story structure"
Parking spaces (proposed) — "18 parking spaces are proposed"
Site area (proposed) — "48-3-09-020 9640 Fairfax Blvd. .41 acres"

Official record

The applicant proposes to redevelop the site with an upper story residential/mixed use consisting of approximately 54 dwelling units and office space/parking spaces on the ground floor of the building. The upper story residential/mixed use requires a Special Use Permit within the CR Commercial Retail Zoning District.

Requests: If an application is submitted, this concept would require land use approvals that could potentially include, but are not limited to: Special Use Permit to allow upper story residential/mixed use within CR Commercial Retail Zoning District. Special Exceptions to modify the maximum density, minimum lot area, minimum required yards and maximum building coverage standards of Section 110-3.6.2, to modify the minimum parking requirement of Section 110-4.2.3.E, to modify the cross access requirements of Section 110-4.3.3, to modify the street tree requirements of Section 110-4.5.6.B. Major Certificate of Appropriateness for architecture and landscaping.
Address: 9640 Fairfax Blvd, Fairfax, VA 22030
Applicant: The Lamb Center/Wesley Housing Gifford Hampshire Blankingship & Keith, PC.
City record

Positions & open questions

through Jul 19, 2026

Open questions

No unresolved questions recorded.

Member commentary

No recorded member positions yet.

Impact analysis

through Jul 19, 2026

Screening-level estimates of the economic and fiscal effects of Lamb Center/Wesley Housing. 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: 92.3 (range 72.9 – 115) — 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: $131k (range $27k – $667k) — 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: $203k (range $201k – $262k) — projected minus current RE tax
Net annual fiscal impact — naive per-capita method: −$307k (range −$502k – −$68k) — incremental new recurring revenue minus service cost (upper-bound cost framing; allocates fixed citywide costs)
Net annual fiscal impact — marginal framing: $8,811 (range −$230k – $219k) — 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.

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2026-07-19

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