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Official City of Fairfax project records, each with a maintained project wiki built from council meetings and city records — followed by projects surfaced only from council-meeting discussion.
A rezoning application was submitted on August 6, 2018 for a mixed-use Planned Development. The applicant proposes to redevelop six parcels including the Breezeway Motel, Fairfax Garden Apartments and 4 single-family homes into 40 townhomes, 20 two-over-two condos and 8,000 sf to 10,010 sf of commercial space along Fairfax Boulevard.
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.
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.
Informational development briefings were held on January 7, 2020 for City Council and January 13, 2020 for Planning Commission to discuss a proposal for mixed-use planned development on 11.32 +/- acres. The applicant is proposing 56 townhouses, 200 unit senior living facility (multifamily and congregate living facility) with structured parking, culvert on-site stream, disturbance in floodplain and Resource Protection Area, and road construction by the City and applicant in Phase I. The applicant has an undetermined mix of future uses along Chain Bridge Road and a future access road from Chain Bridge Road in Phase II. Work sessions to review the submitted applications were held by the Planning Commission on May 11, 2020 and the City Council on May 13, 2020. The proposed culvert would be approximately 970 linear feet long and would impact 1,646 linear feet of stream channel. This proposal has received permits from state and federal agencies, including a Virginia Water Protection Individual Permit (18-1003) from the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (VDEQ) and a State Program General Permit (17- SPGP-01) from the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). In addition to the USACE and VDEQ, the proposal is reviewed by the US Environmental Protection Agency, US Fish & Wildlife Service, Virginia Marine Resources Commission, Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, and Virginia Department of Health. The findings from these reviews concluded that compliance with the approved permitting process: Will protect instream beneficial uses, will not violate applicable water quality standards, and will not cause or contribute to a significant impairment of state waters or fish and wildlife resources The approved permit requires compensation for the stream impacts through the purchase of stream credits (or stream condition units) from a VDEQ approved mitigation bank. During the permitting process, the City of Fairfax requested that instead of the purchase of stream credits from a VDEQ bank, that a compensatory mitigation project be completed on a stream located in the City. The VDEQ responded to the City’s request stating that the purchasing of credits is the ecologically preferred form of mitigation. Despite this response from VDEQ, the applicant agreed to complete a stream restoration project on approximately 2,190 linear feet of the stream located in the City’s Van Dyck Park, or an alternative location on other City property with equal length, accessibility and stream condition, in addition to the purchase of stream credits. A tree canopy of 13.5% of the site, or approximately 1.4 acres, is proposed. The majority of the proposed canopy coverage would be achieved through tree preservation. Proposed vegetation would include native species to the greatest extent possible. In additional to the on-site planting, trees would also be planted within the street rights-of-way. The proposal also received a Conditional Letter of Map Revision from the US Federal Emergency Management Agency on April 1, 2019 for impacts to the floodplain.
The applicant is proposing to build 13 three story, 2 car garage townhomes on 1.18 acres.
The approved project (PDF, 7MB) includes a total of 266 residential units, including 144 multifamily residential condominiums, 115 townhomes, and seven single-family homes, as well as 20,000 square feet of retail space and the 24,000 square foot retained portion of the school building, which may contain a mix of commercial and/or undefined community uses.
The applicant, ABTB Mid-Atlantic, LLC, is proposing to develop a 2,090 square foot fast-food restaurant with a drive-through on approximately 0.66-acres. The subject site is currently a vacant pad site that is part of the Boulevard Marketplace Shopping Center.
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.
The subject site has two existing buildings totaling 4,735 square feet.