City Council Regular Meeting

ShinaberryclerkOur work session items tonight is discussion on a request by combined courthouse LLC 10300 Willard Way and Parence Courthouse Plaza for eight special exceptions for a mixed use development in the CR commercial retail district and Old Town Fairfax transition overlay district. Clara Schweiger, city planner, will provide a staff presentation.

Clara SchweigerstaffThank you. Yeah, I was going to introduce myself. Yeah, I'm Clara Schweiger, planning staff. Yeah, I've been here for about seven months, but I'm happy to finally have the opportunity to present to you all tonight. So this is a work session to discuss the request for eight special exceptions at 10300 Willard Way. We're currently in the post-submission phase of the development review process. The applicant has submitted one revision of the proposal and staff has provided comments on this second submission. Here are the eight special exceptions being requested with this proposal, and I'll go into detail on each of these later on in my presentation. The subject site is located in the Old Town Transition Overlay District, so upper story

Molly NovotnyapplicantGreat. Good evening. My name is Molly Novotny. I'm an urban planner at Curata Partners and I'm pleased to be here before you today. And thank you, Clara, for that presentation. As you heard, there are a lot of special exceptions with this application. I will go through some of those, but I do want to start the presentation by saying that That is because this is an existing site and a lot of those special exceptions address existing conditions. Additionally, some of those special exceptions are needed to meet the small area plan goals. So I just want to kind of start the presentation to level set a little bit. The property, Courthouse Plaza, ever since I've been doing work in the city for 15 plus

recognize that that retail does have to fade away as the building slopes or as a grade slopes and so again just an overall site map view of the project and to note all of these small area plan goals that have guided the project I will just note a few things as I said about those special exceptions that we have requested you know the several of them affect Blenheim Boulevard which is not part of the application area it is part of the parcel but not part of this application area so we are asking for special exceptions for existing to continue. Same thing with the parking spaces, the landscaping on that surface parking spaces that are going to remain. There's also the special exception for the street trees along

So LimCouncilmember Lim Thank You mayor yeah I agree with all of my colleagues and I think out of the eight special exceptions the one that bothers me the most is lack of commercial. And I have a question to our staff about the 10 feet sidewalk requirement on Blenheim Boulevard. What did the Blenheim Boulevard multimodal construction that will be starting, where does that start? I mean, the 10 foot sidewalk requirement on Blenheim Boulevard goes in goes align with the multimodal project is that I'm just trying to get a clarification I