Workshop set to review development proposals
The Fairfax County Planning Commission will hold a workshop on March 9 to review 17 Comprehensive Plan Amendment proposals including five in Mason District.
The workshop will be held at the Fairfax County Government Center in Fairfax at 7:30 p.m.
Under the Site-Specific Plan Amendment Process, developers submitted applications for housing and other land use projects that would require a change to the county’s Comprehensive Plan.
Following the workshop, planning staff will determine whether any of the proposals should be added to the 2023 Comprehensive Plan Amendment Work Program.
These are the proposals submitted by developers for plan amendment in Mason District:
- Southeast of the intersection of Church Street and Payne Street, Bailey’s Crossroads – 60 multifamily dwelling units and approximately 18,000 square feet of retail. This project would be located on vacant land between St. Paul’s Episcopal Church and a retail strip on Columbia Pike.
- 6200 Wilson Boulevard, Seven Corners – A new multifamily building with approximately 300 units and 20,000 square feet of retail would be added to the Cavalier Club property. The existing 11-story multifamily building would remain.
- 6320 and 6326 Arlington Blvd., Seven Corners – A mixed-used 450,000-square-foot project with up to 450 residential units and retail on the site occupied by New Grand Mart and Pistone’s Italian Inn.
- 6675 Little River Turnpike – A four-story building with up to 105 residential units, approximately 18,000 square feet of ground-floor retail, and an underground parking structure. This 1.9-acre site between Columbia Road and Randolph Drive is occupied by Pro Computers, Miracle Garden Center, and a single-family home.
- Seven properties on Gallows Road and Libeau Lane – Twenty single-family homes would replace existing homes. The site, across from Woodburn Elementary School, consists of 3402, 3404, 3406, and 3408 Gallows Road and 7816, 7818, and 7820 Libeau Lane.
Related story: Multifamily housing proposed for Bailey’s Crossroads and Seven Corners
The Comprehensive Plan is a framework to guide land use decisions. The Board of Supervisors streamlined the Site-Specific Plan Amendment Process last summer to speed up the review of plan nominations and require a workshop open to the public rather than a public hearing.
After a Comprehensive Plan amendment is approved by the Board of Supervisors, the developer would apply for a rezoning or zoning special exception, which would require a public hearing.
Been going to the garden center for years – will miss it if this project comes to pass.
Raze the Kids choice and build over there
nooooo not my pro computer store ☹
nooooo not pro computers 😔
Is Pistone’s closed? It’s legendary.
No. This project is far in the future if it ever happens.
Multi family housing, vaping, and Korean bbq…. that’s what Annandale does!
When is something going to be done about the empty Zaaki and Sears buildings, as well as the empty Emessa restaurant shared with another business, on Leesburg Pike? They’ve been eyesores for years now. It’s long past time that they be dealt with!
Amen!! Zaaki is such an eyesore in our community!
The whole area is an eye sore. Zaaki fits right in. A check cashing place or a smoke shop should go there
I was surprised that zoning let them build that extra structure over the parking lot…
Replacing grand mart with multi family is like throwing gas onto the traffic congestion fire … DEMAND that any development in 7corners account for bike and pedestrian safety and traffic routes around the snarl of congestion and left turns they are creating. The county approves these projects as if Arlington and DC do not exist and people aren’t trying to drive, bike, walk to those locations from their homes in outer areas of Fairfax. How about a safe dedicated bike path that connects from OT Fairfax to OT Alexandria with multiple ring paths connecting Springfield to clarendon or annadale to falls church city. Rather than generating development w more white vans and taxis parked in the streets and destroying the historic character of the region – try planning for the people who live here—- and most of all save Lake Accotink!!!
Yes to more mixed-use developments! Spare the NIMBY tears, no one is going to miss that almost empty parking lot and no-name store.
The initial SSPA meeting had about supposedly about 70 of nearby residents oppose it. Really hope it survives and at least even if it gets toned down, being close enough in walking distance and hopes it survives. Traffic there can be really bad and the sidewalks are bit small for the size with this development it would be a fine stop for further bus service given the retail around.