Planning Commission Regular Meeting/Work Session

James Featherand architectural control overlay district. A special use permit to allow a restaurant with a drive-through facility and a special exception to provide an interior landscaped island for every 10 parking spaces on the premises identified as 120 Fairfax Boulevard, tax map 47-4-23-000-D. Staff report. Mr. Frederick, good to see you back.

Mr. Frederickstaffdevelopment plan in the commercial retail district a special use permit to allow a restaurant with drive-through facility a special exception for a number of consecutive parking spaces without a landscape island and a major certificate of appropriateness for architecture and landscaping in 2008 City Council approved a general development plan to allow a total of 17,300 square feet of commercial space including a 3,500 square foot bank with a drive-through facility in 2011 the shopping center was subdivided into two parcels creating parcel a and parcel B in 2017 the City Council approves it the general development plan amendment to allow approximately 5100 square feet of retail building on parcel D to replace their previously approved bank with a

the bill of our market shopping center is approximately 2.4 acres in size parcel D is approximately 0.66 acres located in within the marketplace shopping center the future land use designation is commercial corridor with commercial retail zoning. The images before you show is pictures from around the shopping center and along the street frontage of Fairfax Boulevard. The applicant proposes a 2,000 square foot fast food restaurant with 20 seats and a drive-through which requires a special use permit. development plan shows a drive-through facility that wraps around a one-story building and parking lot area the proposed drive-through facility has 13 stacking spaces from the drive-through window on the west side of the building

between 400 450 to 500 feet from the nearest single family home and as you can see on the map there's a number of existing drive-throughs with homes that are closer so and for tonight there's no action required on the special use permit special exception and a major certificate of appropriateness staff recommends approval of the amendment to the zoning and general development plan the proposed land use application is scheduled for a public hearing with City Council on October 22nd 2024 and I'll stand by for any questions you may have

Kathryn Taylorapplicantand most recently in 2017 City Council approved the amendment that converted it from a drive-through bank to an approximate 5100 square foot retail building as you know that approved retail building has not been constructed and the property remains empty so the next slide just illustrates the proposal the applicant does propose to develop a new Taco Bell restaurant that will be an approximate 2,090 square foot one-story restaurant with a drive-through facility to redevelop the subject property the applicant as you heard will need to amend the existing GDP and request a special use permit to permit the drive-through portion and a new walk-up window so no modifications or improvements are proposed to the shopping the larger shopping center nor

Mr. Foremanstaffright in in in the city it is in in Fairfax Fairfax County operates under a similar situation where there's essentially a special use permit for for chickens it it goes I believe in Fairfax County to the Board of Zoning Appeals and I think they have the discretion to modify the number but there there is they they have something called a bird unit which is by acreage but this being commercial is different than residential keeping of chickens or having a fish pond or that sort of thing. It's a different level.

no from a zoning standpoint it tends to fit in with other zoning uses and and doesn't stand out as far as monitoring i i assume from a wastewater standpoint that that is something and there's other uses in the city that are heavy users or dischargers of wastewater, and this would be treated accordingly. But from a zoning standpoint, this is really a typical, becomes a typical use. And that's part of the reason why it's able to be permitted as opposed to a special use permit.

James Featherarea adjacent to it will remain commercial corridor. Again, we're talking about what's along the boulevard, the commercial corridor, not what's on the side street, which are residential. Having said that, it makes sense for what's left now for it to be considered for using that space to some higher purpose than what it's currently used. Does it rise to the level of a mixed use place type as we've been talking about with the kind of the criteria we've discussed, I think it's not. I think that's where Ms. Lockhart was going. That doesn't preclude the property owner from applying for a special exception or whatever it takes. Is that correct? Special use permit. A special use permit to do just that.