City Council Meeting

Anna McClintockstaffThank you. Thank you, Mayor and Council members. This is a public hearing for 3740 and 3750 Blenheim Boulevard for the proposed Willard Sherwood There was a work session with the City Council for the land use application this year in June 2025. Tonight's public hearing is for City Council's consideration of the land use applications required for this project. These applications are a step in the regulatory permitting process, but do not signify authorization to proceed to construction for the project. the presentation and discussion will focus on the land use matters and will not cover the budget or financing or operating costs which are not part of the land use decision this subject property is bounded on the east by

Brooke HardinstaffGood evening, Mayor, members of the council. Pleased to be with you this evening for the Land Use Public Hearing for the Willard Sherwood Health and Community Center. I am Brooke Hardin, the city's point of contact for the project. With me this evening is Deepa Joshi with Fairfax County, who serves as a project manager with the county on this. In addition to Deepa and myself, there are other members of the staff from both the City of Fairfax and Fairfax County that are with us this evening, along with members of the design team, including Grimm and Parker Architects, Urban Engineering, who handles landscape architecture and civil engineering, Grove Slade, Handless Parking and Traffic, and the Christman companies who represent

Michael DeMarcopublic commentgood evening mayor reed and members of the city council my name is michael de marco 10212 scout drive fairfax and i had the privilege of serving on the original green acres feasibility study committee which was the genesis of this Willard Sherwood Community Center project. That committee began its work nearly a decade ago with a clear mission to evaluate how best to meet the community's recreation, health, and social needs for the next generations. We reviewed many locations for a new community center, looking for a site that was accessible, centrally located, and connected by public transit. One of the six site recommendations to council was, in fact, the Willard location. However, we didn't believe the site would be available because the county was actively using it for critical health care programs.