Boulevard Marketplace Shopping Center GDP Amendment
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.
George Snyder Trail
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.
- 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
The Planning Commission voted 7:0 to recommend City Council approve the General Development Plan amendment for Boulevard Marketplace Shopping Center, allowing a 2,090-sf restaurant with drive-through and walk-up window at 10120 Fairfax Boulevard.
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
- 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
The General Development Plan amendment for Boulevard Marketplace was approved 4-2, allowing a Taco Bell drive-through restaurant at 10120 Fairfax Boulevard.
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✕ StehlepassedMotion 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✕ StehlepassedMotion 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✕ StehlepassedMotion to approve the Major Certificate of Appropriateness for architecture and landscaping at 10120 Fairfax Boulevard.✓ Bates✓ Doyle Feingold✓ Greenfield✕ Lim✓ Ross✕ Stehle
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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. On September 9, 2024, the Planning Commission unanimously recommended City Council approve the GDP amendment (GDP dated August 19, 2024) on a 7–0 vote; no action was taken at that meeting on the remaining three items. On December 10, 2024, the City Council held a public hearing and approved all four items — the GDP amendment (Ordinance No.
2024-14), the Special Use Permit, the Special Exception (Resolution R-24-39), and the Certificate of Appropriateness — each on a 4–2 vote, with Council Members Lim and Stehle opposed. The project is now fully approved.