May 10, 2025
Covering Annandale, Bailey's Crossroads, Lincolnia, and Seven Corners in Fairfax County, Virginia
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Tag: redevelopment

Fairfax Water plans to use eminent domain to take property in Merrifield

#businesses, #land use, #Mosaic District, #redevelopment, #water
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8515 Lee Highway [Google Maps] The Fairfax County Water Authority is planning to use eminent domain to acquire a property at 8515 Lee Highway in Merrifield for a new maintenance facility. The agency is conducting a public hearing on the issue Nov. 19 at Fairfax Water’s offices at 8570 Executive Park Ave., Fairfax. According to … Continued

Seven Corners apartment project to open in spring 2017

#housing, #land use, #real estate, #redevelopment, #Seven Corners
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The site of a new apartment building on Route 50, with the partially completed Hampton Inn & Suites in the background. The apartment building on Route 50 in Seven Corners is projected to be completed in spring 2017. It will have 171 apartments, including a mix of one-bedroom, two-bedroom, one-bedroom-plus-den, and two bedroom-plus-den units, says … Continued

Gross, Loeffler clash over school plan for Willston Center

#Board of Supervisors, #budget, #elections, #Gross, #politics, #redevelopment, #Sandy Evans, #school board, #schools, #taxes, #Willston Center
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From the left: Penny Gross, Mollie Loeffler, Sandy Evans, and a League of Women Voters representative. Plans for a school at the Willston Center in Seven Corners drew the most heat at a candidate forum featuring Mason Supervisor Penny Gross, challenger Mollie Loeffler, and school board member Sandy Evans Oct. 21 sponsored by the League … Continued

Controversial Zoning Ordinance amendment likely to resurface in 2016

#land use, #redevelopment, #Seven Corners, #zoning
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Seven Corners could be a magnet for developers. The Board of Supervisors has put off indefinitely consideration of a controversial Zoning Ordinance amendment that would facilitate new high-density projects in certain redevelopment areas – but that doesn’t mean it’s dead. The proposed amendment on planned residential mixed use (PRM), planned commercial district (PDC), and commercial … Continued

FXCO staff again rejects revised shopping center plan for Rt. 7

#Board of Supervisors, #land use, #redevelopment, #shopping, #zoning
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The proposed shopping center site as seen from Charles Street. Spectrum Development has submitted another revised plan for a shopping center on Leesburg Pike in Bailey’s Crossroads – and it still doesn’t meet the county’s requirements. Staff Report Addendum #3, issued by the Fairfax County Department of Planning and Zoning Oct. 8, recommends the Board … Continued

Planning Commission approves medical building on Evergreen Lane

#health, #land use, #Planning Commission, #redevelopment, #zoning
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The Fairfax County Planning Commission on Sept. 24 recommended that the Board of Supervisors approve the development of a two story medical building on Evergreen Lane in Annandale proposed by Quan Q. Nguyen and Ngan T. Nguyen. The new two-story 5,516-square foot building would replace an old 1,260-square foot one and a-half story house that … Continued

County staff urges BoS to reject shopping center in Bailey’s Crossroads

#Bailey's Crossroads, #land use, #redevelopment, #shopping, #zoning
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A section of the revised plan showing the pharmacy drive-through in the middle of the retail center. More than six months after the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors voted to “defer indefinitely” a rezoning proposal from Spectrum Development for a shopping center on Leesburg Pike in Bailey’s Crossroads, the BoS will hold a public hearing … Continued

Seven Corners residents concerned about proposed zoning changes

#land use, #redevelopment, #Seven Corners, #zoning
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The Route 50/Patrick Henry intersection in Seven Corners. Fairfax County zoning official Donna Pesto attempted to assure local residents at a meeting of the Bailey’s Crossroads/Seven Corners Revitalization Corporation (BC7RC) Sept 15 that proposed changes to the county’s Zoning Ordinance won’t override the density limits in the recently adopted Seven Corners amendment to the Comprehensive … Continued

Supervisors to consider zoning limits on car title lenders

#Board of Supervisors, #businesses, #redevelopment, #zoning
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Fast Auto Loans, 7345 Little River Turnpike, Annandale. The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors is considering a zoning ordinance to prevent new car title and  payday lenders from opening up branches in commercial revitalization districts, such as Annandale, Bailey’s Crossroads, and the Route 1 corridor. The proposed ordinance, developed by Fairfax County zoning staff at … Continued

Illegal infill development would destroy our neighborhood

#housing, #neighborhood groups, #real estate, #redevelopment
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Malbrook residents are fighting Evergreene’s plan to develop on this site. By Darren Gruendel An article published in the Annandale Blog Aug. 18 describes how residents of the Malbrook subdivision are fighting a developer’s plans to built eight houses on a small lot in defiance of the community’s legal covenants. If this project goes forward, … Continued