November 26, 2024
Covering Annandale, Bailey's Crossroads, Lincolnia, and Seven Corners in Fairfax County, Virginia
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Tag: land use

Falls Church considers improvements at the Eden Center

#Falls Church, #land use, #redevelopment, #retail, #Seven Corners
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The Eden Center focuses on Vietnamese restaurants. The City of Falls Church has started a planning study for the city’s East End, which includes the Eden Center and the surrounding area adjacent to Seven Corners. The East End Small Area Plan would establish a conceptual framework for future development. However, no developers have come forward … Continued

County planners expected to recommend reduced requirements for off-street parking

#land use, #parking, #redevelopment, #zoning

Fairfax County planners are looking at how much parking is needed for such uses as apartments, grocery stores, office buildings, and shopping centers. New developments might not need as much parking as currently required in Fairfax County’s Zoning Ordinance.  That’s the idea behind the Parking Reimagined study previewed at a Mason District community meeting Nov. … Continued

Fairfax County to revise zoning rules on parking lots

#land use, #parking, #zoning
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The Parking Reimagined project will seek to “right-size” parking lots. [File photo] Fairfax County is launching an initiative to revise the zoning rules on off-street parking and loading. The Parking Reimagined project will consider potential changes to Article 6 of the Zoning Ordinance to meet current demand for parking. This section hasn’t been comprehensively reviewed … Continued

Planning Commission endorses expanding substance abuse treatments at Seven Corners mental hospital

#drugs, #health, #land use, #Planning Commission, #Seven Corners, #zoning

Dominion Hospital The Fairfax County Planning Commission approved a zoning special exception Oct. 27 to allow Dominion Hospital in Seven Corners to treat patients whose only medical condition is substance abuse.  Under current development conditions, the facility can only treat people for drug and alcohol dependency if they also have a psychiatric diagnosis. 

Conservation group wants to prevent development of vacant Annandale properties

#Annandale, #community organizations, #development, #environment, #land use, #nature, #parks
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The Annandale properties up for auction are outlined in yellow. Fairfax County has put seven adjoining properties totaling 6.7 acres in Mason District up for auction. The land is adjacent to Accotink Creek, and the Northern Virginia Conservation Trust (NVCT) is scrambling to acquire the land so it can’t be developed. The seven parcels are … Continued

Planning Commission approves Final Development Plan for multifamily building in Bailey’s Crossroads

#Bailey's Crossroads, #housing, #land use, #Planning Commission, #redevelopment
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The entrance to the multifamily building would be at the corner of Columbia Pike and Moncure Avenue. The Fairfax County Planning Commission approved a Final Development Plan (FDP) Oct. 13 for a major project at the intersection of Columbia Pike and Moncure Avenue in Bailey’s Crossroads. The project, proposed by DRI/WP Alta Crossroads LLC, consists … Continued

FCPS to seek rezoning and parking waiver for Justice HS

#Anderson, #Justice High School, #land use, #parking, #parks, #schools, #zoning
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An illustration of the Justice High School addition. Fairfax County Public Schools has a new plan to construct a badly needed addition for Justice High School without using Justice Park for parking. Instead, FCPS would go through a rezoning process and would seek a waiver of Fairfax County’s parking requirement, said John McGranahan Jr., an … Continued

Justice Park advocates blamed for potential delay of Justice High School addition

#Justice High School, #land use, #parks
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Playtime in Justice Park. Retaining all of Justice Park for recreational uses shouldn’t have a negative impact on the construction of an addition to Justice High School, park advocates say. The community deserves both – an intact park and an expanded school.  Now that both Fairfax County Public Schools and the Park Authority have officially stated they … Continued

Board of Supervisors approves eminent domain for Sleepy Hollow sidewalk project

#Board of Supervisors, #land use, #pedestrians, #sewer, #sidewalk
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The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors approved measures Sept. 14 allowing the county to use eminent domain to acquire land rights for two projects in Mason District. One measure calls for the county to use eminent domain to facilitate the construction of a pedestrian walkway along Sleepy Hollow Road between Columbia Pike and Leesburg Pike.

Margaret White wouldn’t have wanted a ‘resident curator’ for the park that bears her name, her son says

#gardening, #history, #land use, #parks
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The flowering plants at the White Gardens are being overtaken by invasives. The Fairfax County Park Authority is seeking a “resident curator” to live in and restore the house at the Margaret White Gardens, but that’s not what Margaret would have wanted, says her son Doug White. “She didn’t care whether the house was torn … Continued

Supervisors schedule public hearing on eminent domain for sewer project in Seven Corners

#Board of Supervisors, #infrastructure, #land use, #Seven Corners, #sewer
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The new sewer is shown in red, temporary construction easements and grading agreements are in yellow, and affected properties are outlined in blue.  The Board of Supervisors on July 27 agreed to hold a public hearing on the need to use quick-take eminent domain powers for a sewer project in Seven Corners. The hearing is … Continued