Planning Commission Regular Meeting/Work Session
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Continued discussion of potential amendments to the City of Fairfax Zoning Ordinance related to adopted small area plans with a focus on frontages, open space, tree conservation and landscaping, and parking
1:08:56Paul NabtistaffSo we'll talk a little bit about that. The Institute for Transportation Engineers provides a parking generation manual. This is a typical resource when looking at these types of things. Developers often refer to this as well when requesting exceptions. So we'll look at those standards kind of lightly. We also have a couple of internal observations that have come up recently. You might recall during Ms. Denny's presentation she mentioned the transportation demand management surveys that were sent to recent multi-family developments that included in their proffers that they would respond to this so we have some of those responses that will help give us some background also in 2024 you may recall that the city conducted an old town parking study the
Scout, I think, is below it just because of a rounding purpose. It should be about 5.0. So Willowood was approved after the CU district was implemented, and so they are able to receive a 10% reduction by having structured parking. So that number is slightly lower than others. And then Davies was able to apply the 50% reduction because it's in the transition overlay district, so that number is significantly lower. Some of the recent figures that we have access to now through the Old Town parking study, There are a lot of retail properties that were included in that study. However, we limited this to the two larger shopping centers because some of the other properties are smaller and the core of Old Town are likely depend on some of the public
that we have. If we were to combine those two we would get down to 1.5 spaces for 1,000 square feet. The point and the Davies both included office space, pretty small amounts of office space in them but these are the rates that were shown for those. The point, again, I think this is a rounding issue slightly below what our requirement is but it wasn't a through a special exception request. Davis was provided at what were based on the reduction that's allowed in the TOD. The footnote there that you don't actually see on the screen actually says that they provided a little bit more than this. So one of the main observations here is looking again at that Old Town Parking study that was done. It was completed in 2025 but the analysis was done in fall of 2024.