Fairfax County board approves townhouses at Graham Park Plaza
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors on Oct. 20 approved a proposal by EYA Development LLC to build 177 townhouses on the western portion of Graham Park Plaza on Arlington Boulevard.
Among other actions at the BoS meeting, the supervisors approved a plan for disposal of the Confederate monuments at the judicial complex in Fairfax and approved new rules for businesses to protect public health as the COVID-19 pandemic continues into the colder months.
The EYA project, endorsed by the Planning Commission Oct. 14, would provide a small public park, a new grid of streets, new sidewalks along Arlington Boulevard, and 23 affordable housing units. The townhouses would be three stories tall, and buyers could add a fourth-story loft space.
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The monuments honor John Quincy Marr, the first Confederate soldier killed during the Civil War and include an obelisk, two brass howitzers, and a historical marker. The board voted in September to have those items removed and ask historical societies, museums, or related entities if they want them.
On Tuesday, the board agreed to donate the obelisk to the Stuart Mosby Historical Society in Centreville, the two howitzers to the Manassas National Battlefield, and the historic marker to the Virginia Department of Historic Resources.
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The supervisors also agreed to expand the emergency ordinance on the operations of restaurants, gyms, and fitness centers aimed at curbing the spread of COVID. Those businesses have been allowed to operate temporarily with outdoor, open-sided tents since May without the need for an additional permit. The amended ordinance allows them to use enclosed tents and heaters inside and outside the tents.
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It would be most interesting to know the AMI they are using for these 23 "affordable housing" units. Fairfax County is famous for using 90-120% which is absurd when they give so much lip service to this topic. If they were serious they would make it more like 64%-75% so real people could afford them. It would also be nice to address the limit on how long these units are affordable since it expires when they are sold and they become regular market units. But with ZMOD we will have apartments in every home and backyard and that's supposed to solve our "housing" issue. We need affordable housing, nothing they are building is affordable.
This whole area is "Affordable housing"
Let's start thinking how we make this area more "Nicely kept, well maintained housing" first.
Your kidding me, the County has not a clue how to preserve and sustain our older neighborhoods. This week the tree hogs are out going around scaring the uninformed immigrants into cutting down trees. Welcome to Cancer City. Thank you Penny Gross for expanding our heat island and protecting Mason's environment. Between Trump and the BoS, our children will inherit hell, that is if we are not already living in it.
I couln't care less about "our children"
I care about why my home is going down in value
I care why my neighbors does not take care of their front yard
I care why my street looks like shit with old, not moving cars, and driveways packed with wracked automobiles.
This place should look like a neighborhood, not like an industrial zone.