The Botanist

Proposal at a glance

Tax map parcel(s): 47 4 02 02 002A1

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

• Floor area (existing) — "EX. 5-STORY BRICK BUILDING 24,408 SQ. FT."
• Dwelling units (proposed) — "The Project will consist of 260 total units"
• Retail (proposed) — "approximately 5,000 square feet of ground floor retail"
• Stories (proposed) — "7 STORIES/81 FEET OF MULTI-FAMILY - SPECIAL EXCEPTION REQUESTED"
• Site area (proposed) — "GROSS SITE AREA: ±129,130 SF (±2.96 AC)"

Official record

The applicant proposes to replace existing surface parking at WillowWood Office Plaza with a seven story building that consist of up to 260 apartments, approximately 5,000 square feet of ground floor retail, and a parking garage on approximately 2.97 acres. The subject property is located in the Northfax Small Area Plan.

• Requests: The applicant has requested a Zoning Map Amendment (Rezoning) from CR Commercial Retail to CU Commercial Urban in the Architectural Control Overlay District (ACOD), a Special Use Permit for upper story residential/mixed-use building, and Special Exceptions to density, height, 75% ground floor nonresidential use in a mixed use building, setbacks, sidewalks, tree canopy requirement and vehicular cross-access. This land use application is subject to the City's Affordable Dwelling Unit (ADU) ordinance and requires a Major Certificate of Appropriateness for architecture and landscaping.
• Address: 10306 Eaton Place, Fairfax, VA 22030
• Applicant: Capital City Real Estate, LLC Chris Love Managing Partner, Washington DC 3000 K Street NW, Suite 270 Washington, DC 20007
• City record

2025-12-01 — HHCAB Regular Meeting

Agenda item 5: December 2nd Council Presentation

• Outcome: The board reviewed and discussed the presentation to be delivered to City Council on December 2, 2025, covering HHCAB's purpose, housing landscape, population data, community interest, workplan (including Home Sharing and Housing Trust Fund), and discussion items.
• [5] The Botanist was listed as an approved but not yet constructed affordable housing project with 16 units.

Open questions

No unresolved questions recorded.

Member commentary

No recorded member positions yet.

Screening-level estimates of the economic and fiscal effects of The Botanist. 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: 445 (range 351 – 555) — households x persons per multifamily unit (Rutgers CUPR bedroom-mix multipliers)
• Annual capture: project's own ground-floor retail: $20k (range $11k – $28k) — 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: $557k (range $85k – $3.4M) — 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: $952k (range $944k – $1.2M) — projected minus current RE tax
• Net annual fiscal impact — marginal framing: $23k (range −$1.1M – $1.1M) — 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.