Fairfax Circle Small Area Plan

Summary

The Fairfax Circle Small Area Plan is a land use and transportation planning document for the Fairfax Circle area in the City of Fairfax, developed beginning in Spring 2023. The Planning Commission unanimously approved the plan (5-0) via Resolution PC-24-02 on July 8, 2024, recommending City Council adopt the June 24, 2024 draft subject to Comprehensive Plan amendment approval and specific modifications, including property access preservation, a transportation safety study, analysis of widening walkways/shared use paths, and three textual edits. City Council held a public hearing on July 23, 2024 — at which no public testimony was offered — and adopted the plan (in the July 11, 2024 draft) on a 4-2 vote, with Councilmembers Doyle Feingold and Greenfield opposed. Following adoption, the plan has been referenced as a guiding document for multiple ongoing city initiatives, including a Fairfax Circle intersection evaluation under the city's two-year transportation program, stream restoration planning along Accutink Creek and adjacent corridors, Blenheim Boulevard multimodal improvement extensions, floodplain and building height coordination, and frontage type standards being applied to other small area plans. As of late 2025 and into 2026, city staff and the transportation department have been conducting follow-up meetings with local homeowner associations and coordinating with other departments to implement plan recommendations.

Open questions & options on the table

• The Fairfax Circle intersection evaluation (an in-depth study to determine the best option for serving vehicles, pedestrians, and other users) was underway as of late 2024–early 2025; its outcome has not been recorded.
• Follow-up meetings with homeowner associations around the Fairfax Circle area were anticipated as of October 2025; their completion or outcomes have not been recorded.
• Easements from private properties required for stream restoration projects along the Accutink Creek corridor adjacent to the Fairfax Circle area have not been secured or resolved in the record.
• A nature-based solutions study to improve flood conditions along the Accutank Creek corridor adjacent to the plan area was completed in FY26, but resulting recommendations or next steps have not been recorded.
• A future CIP or budget request for extending Blenheim Boulevard multimodal improvements through Fairfax Circle (as recommended by the plan) has not yet been made per the record.

What members have said

Positions as recorded in meeting minutes; votes without recorded comment aren’t summarized.

Discussion time

Minutes of named discussion per transcribed meeting.