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Place · on the record since 2024 · discussed in 3 transcribed meetings

10120 Fairfax Boulevard

10120 Fairfax Boulevard (Tax Map 47-4-23-000-D) is a vacant pad site within the Boulevard Marketplace Shopping Center in the City of Fairfax's CR Commercial Retail District and Architectural Control Overlay District. 5 separate matters touch this place; each has its own status.

approved

The Boulevard Marketplace Shopping Center GDP Amendment concerns a request by ABTB Mid-Atlantic, LLC to amend the General Development Plan (GDP) for Tax Map Parcels 47-4-23-000-A and 47-4-23-000-D at 10120 and 10140–10160 Fairfax Boulevard, Fairfax, to allow construction of a 2,090-square-foot Taco Bell restaurant with a drive-through and walk-up window. The application also sought a Special Use Permit for the drive-through, a Special Exception for reduced interior parking landscaping, and a Major Certificate of Appropriateness for architecture and landscaping.

  • Sep 9, 2024Planning Commission · item 6a
    Request from ABTB Mid-Atlantic, LLC for GDP Amendment, Special Use Permit (drive-through restaurant), and Special Exception (parking landscaping) – Boulevard Marketplace Shopping Center, 10120 & 10140-10160 Fairfax Boulevard

    Subject property (Tax Map 47-4-23-000-D) for the proposed drive-through restaurant and Special Exception.

    passedMotion by Ms. Lockhart, seconded by Mr. Coleman, to recommend City Council adopt the attached resolution approving the GDP amendment for ABTB Mid-Atlantic, LLC at 10120 and 10140-10160 Fairfax Boulevard (Tax Map Parcels 47-4-23-000-A and 47-4-23-000-D).
    ✓ Feather✓ Briggs✓ Coleman✓ Cunningham✓ Denton✓ Lockhart✓ Rice
    Watch this momentminutesagenda
  • Dec 10, 2024City Council · item 8a
    Public hearing on ABTB Mid-Atlantic, LLC request — Boulevard Marketplace Shopping Center (Taco Bell drive-through): GDP amendment, Special Use Permit, Special Exception, and Certificate of Appropriateness

    This parcel (Tax Map 47-4-23-000-D) is the site of the approved Taco Bell drive-through restaurant development within Boulevard Marketplace.

    passedMotion to adopt Ordinance No. 2024-14 approving the General Development Plan amendment for Boulevard Marketplace (10120 and 10140-10160 Fairfax Boulevard).
    ✓ Bates✓ Doyle Feingold✓ Greenfield✕ Lim✓ Ross✕ Stehle
    passedMotion to approve the Special Use Permit for a drive-through restaurant facility at 10120 Fairfax Boulevard (Tax Map 47-4-23-000-D).
    ✓ Bates✓ Doyle Feingold✓ Greenfield✕ Lim✓ Ross✕ Stehle
    passedMotion to adopt Resolution R-24-39 approving the Special Exception for interior landscaped parking islands at 10120 Fairfax Boulevard.
    ✓ Bates✓ Doyle Feingold✓ Greenfield✕ Lim✓ Ross✕ Stehle
    passedMotion to approve the Major Certificate of Appropriateness for architecture and landscaping at 10120 Fairfax Boulevard.
    ✓ Bates✓ Doyle Feingold✓ Greenfield✕ Lim✓ Ross✕ Stehle
    minutesagenda
in progress

4010 University Drive is a proposal by Pathway Homes, Inc. to develop affordable residential units with support services and ground-floor office space at the corner of University Drive and Sager Avenue in the CR Commercial Retail zoning district and Old Town Fairfax Historic Overlay District (Tax Map 57-4-02-087-B). The project was initially described as providing 15 designated affordable residential units with support services and ground-floor office.

Private Development · Under Construction

Tommy's Carwash

approved

Tommy's Carwash is a proposed car wash facility by applicant Olympus Pines, LLC at 9917 Fairfax Boulevard in the City. The project required a Special Use Permit (SUP) for vehicle service use, special exceptions (for exterior vacuum stations, a fence in a transitional yard, and modified street tree requirements), and a Major Certificate of Appropriateness.

Private Development · Under Construction

Taco Bell

in progress

The Taco Bell project involves the development of a new Taco Bell restaurant with a drive-through on Parcel D, a 0.66-acre vacant pad site at 10120 Fairfax Boulevard, within an existing multi-tenant shopping center (Parcel A, 2.4 acres total). The project is governed by a previously approved 2017 general development plan and 2008 proffers, with no changes to existing proffers or shopping center conditions proposed.

denied

The George Snyder Trail (GST) was a planned shared-use trail project (VDOT UPC 112816) in Fairfax City intended to improve multimodal connectivity. The project had received approximately $20.6 million in concessionaire (Transform 66 Outside the Beltway) funding, with a total budget of roughly $16 million remaining after prior expenditures.

  • Sep 9, 2024Planning Commission · item 6a
    Request from ABTB Mid-Atlantic, LLC for GDP Amendment, Special Use Permit (drive-through restaurant), and Special Exception (parking landscaping) – Boulevard Marketplace Shopping Center, 10120 & 10140-10160 Fairfax Boulevard

    Subject property (Tax Map 47-4-23-000-D) for the proposed drive-through restaurant and Special Exception.

    passedMotion by Ms. Lockhart, seconded by Mr. Coleman, to recommend City Council adopt the attached resolution approving the GDP amendment for ABTB Mid-Atlantic, LLC at 10120 and 10140-10160 Fairfax Boulevard (Tax Map Parcels 47-4-23-000-A and 47-4-23-000-D).
    ✓ Feather✓ Briggs✓ Coleman✓ Cunningham✓ Denton✓ Lockhart✓ Rice
    Watch this momentminutesagenda

In full

ABTB Mid-Atlantic, LLC applied to develop the site as a Taco Bell drive-through restaurant, requiring a General Development Plan (GDP) amendment, Special Use Permit, Special Exception for parking landscaping, and a Certificate of Appropriateness. The Planning Commission unanimously (7-0) recommended City Council approve the GDP amendment on September 9, 2024, while deferring action on the remaining applications. A City Council public hearing was held on December 10, 2024, at which all four applications were approved 4-2 (Council Members Lim and Stehle opposed): Ordinance No.

2024-14 adopted the GDP amendment, the Special Use Permit was granted for the drive-through facility, Resolution R-24-39 approved the Special Exception for interior landscaped parking islands, and the Major Certificate of Appropriateness was approved for architecture and landscaping. The matter is now fully resolved at the local approval level.