City of Fairfax 2035 Comprehensive Plan Five Year Review

The City of Fairfax 2035 Comprehensive Plan Five Year Review is a statutorily required periodic review (per Code of Virginia Section 15.2-2230) of the city's long-range land use and policy planning document. The process reached the Planning Commission stage by September 2024, with staff presenting the draft plan during a continued work session on September 9, 2024, at which no action was taken and a public hearing was tentatively scheduled for September 23, 2024. On September 23, 2024, the Planning Commission held that public hearing and unanimously adopted Resolution PC-24-03 (7-0), approving amendments to the plan as drafted on September 18, 2024 — subject to modifications incorporating City Council feedback, clarifying and confirming updated map graphics, and making related inline text edits — and formally recommending that City Council adopt the updated plan. The matter was then scheduled to advance to a City Council public hearing on October 8, 2024.

In this wiki

• Meeting history — every action, vote, and update, with links to the moment in the meeting video
• Positions & open questions

2024-09-09 — Planning Commission Regular Meeting/Work Session

Agenda item 8a: Continued discussion on the City of Fairfax 2035 Comprehensive Plan – Five Year Review (watch the moment)

• Outcome: Work session discussion continued; no action taken. A public hearing on the Comprehensive Plan was tentatively scheduled for the September 23, 2024 Planning Commission meeting.
• [8a] Continued work session discussion held; staff presented the draft plan. A public hearing was tentatively scheduled for September 23, 2024.
• Status after: in_progress

2024-09-23 — Planning Commission Regular Meeting/Work Session

Agenda item 6a: Public hearing on final recommendation to City Council for amendments to the City of Fairfax 2035 Comprehensive Plan based on the five-year review (Code of Virginia Section 15.2-2230). (watch the moment)

• Outcome: Resolution PC-24-03 adopted unanimously 7:0 by roll call vote, approving amendments to the City of Fairfax 2035 Comprehensive Plan in the draft dated September 18, 2024 subject to modifications, and recommending approval and adoption by City Council.
• Vote (passed): Adopt Resolution PC-24-03 approving amendments to the City of Fairfax Comprehensive Plan and recommending approval and adoption to City Council in the draft dated September 18, 2024, subject to modifications regarding incorporation of City Council feedback, clarification and confirmation of updated map graphics, and related inline text edits. — Briggs: yes, Coleman: yes, Denton: yes, Cunningham: yes, Lockhart: yes, Rice: yes, Feather: yes
• [6a] The Planning Commission completed its public hearing and unanimously recommended City Council adopt the updated 2035 Comprehensive Plan; the matter advances to a City Council public hearing scheduled for October 8, 2024.
• Status after: approved

Open questions

• City Council public hearing on adoption of the updated 2035 Comprehensive Plan, scheduled for October 8, 2024, and any subsequent Council vote on adoption.
• Incorporation of City Council feedback into the plan text prior to or following the Council public hearing.
• Clarification and confirmation of updated map graphics and related inline text edits as conditioned in Resolution PC-24-03.

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