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10140-10160 Fairfax Boulevard

10140-10160 Fairfax Boulevard (Tax Map 47-4-23-000-A) is a parcel within the Boulevard Marketplace Shopping Center in the CR Commercial Retail District, subject to an Architectural Control Overlay. 2 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 for the shopping center at 10120 and 10140-10160 Fairfax Boulevard (Tax Map Parcels 47-4-23-000-A and 47-4-23-000-D) in order to permit a 2,090-square-foot Taco Bell restaurant with a drive-through and walk-up window. The application also required a Special Use Permit for the drive-through restaurant, 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-A) included in the GDP amendment area.

    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
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  • 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-A) is part of the Boulevard Marketplace Shopping Center subject to the approved GDP amendment.

    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
denied

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  • 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-A) included in the GDP amendment area.

    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

It is one of two parcels — along with 10120 Fairfax Boulevard (Tax Map 47-4-23-000-D) — involved in a multi-part land use application by ABTB Mid-Atlantic, LLC (represented by attorney/agent Catherine Taylor) to develop a Taco Bell with a drive-through facility. The application required a General Development Plan (GDP) amendment, a Special Use Permit for the drive-through restaurant, a Special Exception for interior parking landscaping islands, and a Major Certificate of Appropriateness for architecture and landscaping. On September 9, 2024, the Planning Commission unanimously recommended City Council approve the GDP amendment (dated August 19, 2024), but took no action that evening on the remaining three items.

On December 10, 2024, City Council approved all four items — adopting Ordinance No. 2024-14 for the GDP amendment and Resolution R-24-39 for the Special Exception — by a 4-2 vote, with Council Members Lim and Stehle opposed on all four motions. The matter is now fully resolved.