Planning Commission Regular Meeting

FrederickstaffGood evening. This is a public hearing for the Davies property. The applicant is the Hill, a Davies family LLC. The site is located at 4131 Chambers Road. The applicant submitted a revised application on September 6, 2024. A post-submission work session with the Planning Commission was held on January 13, 2025, and City Council on January 27, 2025. The plans for tonight's hearing was submitted on June 2, 2025. There have been several conceptual plans and applications for the development for the site dating back to 2016. the again the applicant submitted a revised lane use application and plans in september of 2024 the applicant is requesting a zoning map amendment from a residential medium to commercial urban with proffers in the old town fairfax transition overlay district

William Fournierpublic commentThis is too much. The financial impact analysis provided in the attachments shows that this project, as proposed, probably could be a drain on the city. The buildings are too close to Chainbridge Road and University Drive. It is closer than the two office buildings that are immediately to the north of the Davies property on Chainbridge. The small area plans talk about frontage. New developments should be situated to be space for future multimodal transportation. Scout on the Circle provided for this kind of frontage. School contribution in the Davies Proffers is $425 per unit. Other projects contributions are Willowood Phase I, $1,500 per unit. Fairfax Moxley, the point was $200,000 which is $496 per dwelling unit and that was in

Anthony Colemanokay chair based on the public convenience welfare and good zoning practice with respect to rezoning application Z dash two three dash zero zero zero seven three which has been filed for the land known as the Davies property and more particularly described as as and identified as 4131 Chain Bridge Road tax map 57 dash four dash zero two dash zero four zero I move that for the rezoning application Z-23-00073 to rezone the subject property from RM, residential medium, to CU, commercial urban, while retaining the old Fairfax transition overlay district, TOD, and approve an approval of the general development plan with proffers, which has been prepared and submitted by the applicant.

Kirsten Lockhartbased on the public convenience, welfare, and good zoning practice with respect to rezoning application Z-2300073, which has been filed for the land known as the Davies property and more particularly described and identified as 4131 Chainbridge Road, I move that the Planning Commission recommend denial of the rezoning application to rezone the subject property from RM Residential Medium to CU Commercial Urban while retaining the Old Town Fairfax Transition Overlay District because the applicant's proposal as set forth in the General Development Plan is not in conformance with the comprehensive plan and other adopted city goals and policies as currently presented.