May 9, 2025
Covering Annandale, Bailey's Crossroads, Lincolnia, and Seven Corners in Fairfax County, Virginia
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Tag: land use

Seven Corners residents seek new hearing on redevelopment options

#land use, #neighborhood groups, #Planning Commission, #redevelopment, #Sears, #Seven Corners
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An ad-hoc community working group that has called for redevelopment of Seven Corners with less density than the proposal under consideration by the Fairfax County Planning Commission has asked the commission to delay a vote on the plan. The Planning Commission held a public hearing on a Seven Corners amendment to the county’s Comprehensive Plan … Continued

Facade improvements proposed for Annandale

#businesses, #land use, #property maintenance
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Could a few simple aesthetic fixes improve the appearance of central Annandale? That’s the idea behind the Fairfax County Office of Community Revitalization’s (OCR) proposed façade improvement pilot program. The program would encourage business owners to make improvements like landscaping, painting, awnings, flower boxes, planting trees, screening dumpsters, and installing more attractive signs.  OCR planner … Continued

Planning Commission defers decision on Seven Corners redevelopment

#housing, #land use, #neighborhood groups, #Planning Commission, #redevelopment, #Seven Corners, #traffic, #transportation
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There was lots of discussion at the Planning Commission hearing about the need to retain affordable housing. The Fairfax County Planning Commission deferred a decision on the Seven Corners Amendment to the county’s Comprehensive Plan to July 8. People who spoke at the Planning Commission’s public hearing May 7 were pretty much split among those … Continued

Gross outlines vision for community school at Willston Center

#Gross, #land use, #Loeffler, #redevelopment, #schools, #Seven Corners, #Swanson, #Willston Center
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The main entrance to the Willston Center. Mason Supervisor Penny Gross has outlined a vision for a school at the Willston Multicultural Center that would be attached to a building providing a variety of community services. In her “A Penny for Your Thoughts” column published in the Falls Church News-Press April 16, Gross said she … Continued

Spectrum shopping center goes back to the drawing board

#Bailey's Crossroads, #Board of Supervisors, #Gross, #land use, #redevelopment, #shopping, #zoning
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The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors voted March 24 to “defer indefinitely” the rezoning application for the proposed Spectrum shopping center on Leesburg Pike in Bailey’s Crossroads. Following many discussions with the community and the developer, “we asked the developer to go back to the drawing board and rework the plan for the shopping center,” … Continued

Working Group agrees on reduced residential density for Sears site

#housing, #land use, #redevelopment, #Sears, #Seven Corners
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The Working Group’s final meeting, at Bailey’s Elementary School. The Seven Corners Special Working Group on Opportunity Area C (the Sears site) endorsed a plan for redeveloping the Sears site with less residential density than its earlier draft. The group’s final recommendation, approved March 4, calls for 275 multifamily units and 60 townhouses. That’s a … Continued

Board of Supervisors defers vote on Spectrum shopping center

#Bailey's Crossroads, #Board of Supervisors, #Gross, #land use, #neighborhood groups, #redevelopment, #shopping
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“Lot 8,” the home of Concetta Difalco, whose family opposes the Spectrum development. The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors approved a motion March 3 to defer a decision on the Spectrum shopping center proposal until March 24. The project, to be built by Spectrum Development, would be on a 2.7-acre property on Leesburg Pike between … Continued

Gross supports community school concept

#Gross, #land use, #Mason District, #redevelopment, #Seven Corners, #transportation
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Ernie Wells looks at maps of proposed Seven Corners redevelopment concepts at a community meeting at Bailey’s Elementary School. Mason Supervisor Penny Gross told the audience at a community meeting on Seven Corners redevelopment Feb. 19 that she supports the concept of a community school and that the Willston Center is a possible a location. … Continued

Inova will develop medical research institute on ExxonMobil site

#health, #Inova, #land use, #McAuliffe, #redevelopment
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Gov. Terry McAuliffe announces Inova’s deal to lease the ExxonMobil property. Looking on are Fairfax County Board Chair Sharon Bulova and Inova CEO Knox Singleton. Inova Health Systems will take over the ExxonMobil headquarters building on Gallows Road across the street from Inova Fairfax Hospital to create a Center for Personalized Health. Inova hopes the … Continued