City Council Special Meeting & Work Session
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Discussion of a Request by Christopher Land, LLC on the Redevelopment of 4085-4117 Chain Bridge Road
2:29Jason Suffinstaffover 7,700 square feet the current zoning district is CEO commercial office and the property is located within the transition overlay district the site is currently developed with four office buildings dating from the 1960s through 1988. They total again 120,000 square feet. Under the current configuration, the proposal would require a special use permit for multifamily use in one of the buildings. Retail general uses are not permitted in the CO commercial office district. Therefore the applicant has requested to rezone the property from CO commercial office to CU commercial urban. It's also worth noting that the transition overlay district allows by right upper story DEVELOPMENT,
THE PROPOSED RESONDING FROM CO COMMERCIAL OFFICE TO CU COMMERCIAL URBAN WOULD ALLOW THE SITE TO BE DEVELOPED WITH AN UPPER STORY RESIDENTIAL MIXED USE BUILDING. AN UPPER STORY RESIDENTIAL MIXED USE BUILDING IS PERMITTED AGAIN IN THE OLD TOWN TRANSITION OVERLAY DISTRICT, HOWEVER, THE STANDALONE MULTIFAMILY BUILDING, WHICH IS GOING TO BE BUILDING C when I go over the buildings here in a second requires a special use permit because it's standalone multifamily. The CU district is established to provide an urban mixed use development option for appropriate parts of downtown and specific other areas. This is the proposed general development plan. the applicant proposes to develop three buildings with up to 392 apartments
THE SPECIAL USE PERMIT THAT I HAD MENTIONED IS FOR THE STANDALONE BUILDING C, WHICH IS SIX STORIES OF MULTIFAMILY RESIDENTIAL PROPOSED IN THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF THE SITE. Again, upper story mixed use is allowed by Wright in the transition district, but stand-alone multifamily is not a use that's permitted by Wright. It does require a special use permit. Of note, four stories of residential with one story of active amenity space, five stories total with portions of the exposed garage entrance would face University Drive and the townhouses across the street. THE SPECIAL EXCEPTIONS THAT WERE NOTED EARLIER IN THE PRESENTATION. NUMBER 7 HAS BEEN STRUCK OUT. A DETERMINATION BY THE ZONE ADMINISTRATOR HAS BEEN MADE THAT THE TRANSITION YARDS ARE