City Council Meeting

Anna McClintockstaffand allow expansion of government use that's on the city-owned parcel, and then two major certificates of appropriateness with the Board of Architectural Review for architecture and landscaping and then nine special exceptions, which I'll be going through in the next few slides. The first special exception request is to allow an increase in lot coverage in the RH residential high zoning district, which is the county parcel where the community center would be located. There is a 50% maximum required for the RH zone and the applicant requests 89% to accommodate the community center building. The second special exception request is to allow an increase in maximum building height in the RH district to exceed 35 feet.

the maximum proposed building height for this community center is 54 feet and then special exceptions three and four are to allow modifications for the required yards on the county owned parcel there is a modification to the front and side yard and then on the city owned parcel it would be for the side addition and the bridge connection and then special exception number five and six is to reduce the amount of required parking spaces pursuant to shared parking the total parking supply would be 347 spaces which includes the existing surface parking, proposed underground garage, and shared parking on the Jorgensen lab site, which reaches the maximum parking demand according to the applicant's studies.

the wing canopy element along Blenheim Boulevard staff and the board agreed that the applicant has responded to previous comments regarding architecture and landscaping city staff has recommended an additional certificate of appropriateness condition to the City Council to allow the proposed building addition to the Stacy Sherwood Community Center to be approved as an optional component of the project consistent with the staff recommendation for the special use And then lastly, here are staff recommendations. Staff recommends approval of both special use permits with conditions in addition to the special exceptions and the major certificates of appropriateness for both sites. And then this concludes my presentation, but the project team has a presentation to cover

Stacey Hardy-ChandlerI move that the City Council adopt the attached resolution to approve the request of the City of Fairfax two special exceptions pursuant to city code section 3.6.1 point a to allow a modification for the required side yard in the rm district and 4.2.3 point e to reduce the amount of required parking spaces pursuant to shared parking on the premises known as 3740 blenheim boulevard and more particularly described as tax map parcel 57 dash 2 dash o2 dash 17 5a with the following conditions development shall be in conformance with the special use permit plan and to the proposed building addition to the Stacy C Sherwood Community Center shall be approved as an optional component of the project is

move that the city council adopt the attached resolution to approve the request of the board of supervisors of Fairfax County for seven special exceptions pursuant to city code section 3.6.1.a to allow an increase in lot coverage in the RH district. 3.6.1.8 to allow an increase in maximum building height in the RH district 3.1 3.6.1 point a to allow a modification for required yards in the RH district 4.2.3 point e to reduce the amount of required parking spaces 4.6 point 7 point a to allow an increase for signage 3.1 3.6 point 1 point a to allow an increase coverage in the RH district and 4.5 point 6 point a to allow a decrease of 10-year tree canopy requirements in the RH district on the premises known as

Brian Lubkemanstaffconsultants where you could ask all of these questions. I'm sorry to interrupt. We provide you on land use applications the information that is relevant to the considerations that you have to consider when deciding whether or not to approve an application. And that's different from application to application because there are different types of requests Again, some are special exceptions, some are rezonings, and there's different aspects associated with all of those. But you are not, for lack of a better term, proforming a project. You're not looking at this like a lender might in looking at the merits of an application. It's a specific examination of projects that municipalities are allowed to do under Virginia