Lamb Center/Wesley Housing

Proposal at a glance

Tax map parcel(s): 48 3 09 020

Extracted from the city's submitted documents; each figure traces to the text it came from.

• Dwelling units (proposed) — "The 54 residential units will be located on floors 2-5"
• Affordable units (proposed) — "offering all 54 units to persons at 50% or below of area medium income"
• Office (proposed) — "54 permanent supportive housing units and 1,400 SF of office space"
• Stories (proposed) — "concept diagram shows a new, five-story structure"
• Parking spaces (proposed) — "18 parking spaces are proposed"
• Site area (proposed) — "48-3-09-020 9640 Fairfax Blvd. .41 acres"

Official record

The applicant proposes to redevelop the site with an upper story residential/mixed use consisting of approximately 54 dwelling units and office space/parking spaces on the ground floor of the building. The upper story residential/mixed use requires a Special Use Permit within the CR Commercial Retail Zoning District.

• Requests: If an application is submitted, this concept would require land use approvals that could potentially include, but are not limited to: Special Use Permit to allow upper story residential/mixed use within CR Commercial Retail Zoning District. Special Exceptions to modify the maximum density, minimum lot area, minimum required yards and maximum building coverage standards of Section 110-3.6.2, to modify the minimum parking requirement of Section 110-4.2.3.E, to modify the cross access requirements of Section 110-4.3.3, to modify the street tree requirements of Section 110-4.5.6.B. Major Certificate of Appropriateness for architecture and landscaping.
• Address: 9640 Fairfax Blvd, Fairfax, VA 22030
• Applicant: The Lamb Center/Wesley Housing Gifford Hampshire Blankingship & Keith, PC.
• City record

In this wiki

• Positions & open questions
• Impact analysis — screening estimates with assumptions and ranges
• Documents — the city's published record for this project

Open questions

No unresolved questions recorded.

Member commentary

No recorded member positions yet.

Screening-level estimates of the economic and fiscal effects of Lamb Center/Wesley Housing. Figures are decision-support context with named assumptions and sensitivity ranges — not predictions. The full analysis has the interactive assumptions panel and maps; methods documents every formula.

Headline estimates

• metric new-residents unavailable — households x persons per multifamily unit (Rutgers CUPR bedroom-mix multipliers)
• metric annual-capture-project-s-own-ground-floor-retail unavailable — Huff model over individual retail POIs: joint destination+mode choice, P(j,m) ~ A_j * w_m * exp(-b_m t_mj), CES category spend; clusters are a reporting rollup; own retail competes as a destination
• metric new-annual-spending-arriving-on-foot unavailable — walk-mode share of the joint destination+mode Huff choice, summed over businesses; walking loses to driving with walk time, so the remainder of the mode-split budget arrives by car
• metric real-estate-tax-increase unavailable — projected minus current RE tax
• metric net-annual-fiscal-impact-naive-per-capita-method unavailable — incremental new recurring revenue minus service cost (upper-bound cost framing; allocates fixed citywide costs)
• metric net-annual-fiscal-impact-marginal-framing unavailable — incremental new recurring revenue minus service cost (only services that scale with new residents)

Method notes, caveats, and non-headline metrics live on the analysis page.

Documents published in the city's project record, in the order the city lists them. Labels are the city's own and usually carry the document date, format, and size.

• May 06, 2022 Special Use Permit Plan (PDF, 7MB)
• May 06, 2022 Statement of Justification (PDF, 1010KB)
• July 28, 2022 Special Use Permit Plan (PDF, 8MB)
• September 28, 2022 Special Use Permit Plan (PDF, 2MB)
• September 28, 2022 Statement of Justification (PDF, 1MB)
• September 28, 2022 TIA and Parking Study (PDF, 25MB)
• November 9, 2022 Special Use Permit Plan (PDF, 8MB)
• November 9, 2022 Statement of Justification (PDF, 212KB)
• November 9, 2022 Summary of Commitments (PDF, 186KB)
• November 9, 2022 TIA and Parking Study (PDF, 3MB)
• April 26, 2022 City Council Briefing
• October 5, 2022 Board of Architectural Review Public hearing
• November 29, 2022 City Council Pubic Hearing
• December 6, 2022 City Council Work Session
• December 6, 2022 City Council Work Session Video