Hello,
One of AY's contributors who's familiar with planning and zoning issues attended the Fairfax County Planning Commission meeting last night. What was up for discussion and a vote, as it affects Arlington, was a significant increase in density in Planned Residential Mexed Use and Planned Develpment Commercial sectors of Bailey's Crossroads, Seven Corners and Annandale. In other words, Smart Growth redevelopment.
A description of this proposal appeared in the Metro Section of last Sunday's Washington Post.
Fairfax County Planning Commission decided to approve a FAR 5.0 maximum on new redevelopment rather than a lower density. FAR is an acronym for floor area ratio, the ratio of the total floor area of the building to the area of the lot on which the building is constructed (e.g., 250,000 square foot building on a 50,000 square foot lot).
The FC Planning Commission voiced little concern about traffic and parking. The impact of traffic on Arlington, Alexandria, and Falls Church wasn't on the FC Planning Commission's radar. If they weren't concerned about the impacts on Lake Barcroft, Sleepy Hollow, and Linconia, why should they be concerned about the impacts on adjacent neighborhoods in Arlington, Alexandria, and Falls Church? Multi-modal-multi-jurisdiction gridlock? What's that?
This up-zoning is on the Fairfax County Board of Supervisor's agenda for its meeting the afternoon of June 21st. You can check out the staff reports on the FC Planning Commission's and FC Board of Supervisor's Web sites.
Cindy
35 comments:
There goes the neighborhood
Mason District Supervisor Penny Gross did nothing for Bailey's, Seven Corners, and Annandale for decades. Now she's about ready to retire and is inviting Smart Growth America and the REITs to infill the run-down looking neighborhoods along the Pike and Route 50.
Imagine what the REITs will do to the Giant supermarket site between Columbia Pike and Route 236 in downtown Annandale.
Will be interesting to see the neighborhood turnout at next Tuesday's FC Board of Supervisors meeting.
Same Penny Gross who pushed the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors to approve the massive apartment complex across the street from Wakefield HS with no open space on the site except for a rain garden 'cause the residents could always use Wakefield for sports and recreation. Which they do.
Insofar as Fairfax County is concerned Arlington is in Texas and Alexandria is in Egypt.
I wonder which upscale enclave 100 miles from the nearest vibrant mixed use Smart Growth Penny will retire to?
Penny fast-tracked a state-of-the-art car wash on the Pike in advance of rezoning for Millennial cribs.
Boo Hoo. What will happen to the best barbecued ribs restaurant in NoVA that no one has ever heard of?
I am renting an apartment in one of the 6 story wood buildings with brick veneer in Clarendon. It's 5 years old and falling apart. The Urban Village Idiots who approved the building's construction are almost all off the County Board.
You mean D* B* ?
What the f*** do the REITs care?
Take a drive West on Route 50 from the Beltway to the City of Fairfax. Many of the the old shopping plazas are being torn down.
Old no tell motels are still in business.
Wait till the Biketards start racing through Lake Barcroft and Sleepy Hollow.
Where was Ace Journalist Scott McCaffrey last night?
"Former Arlington Supervisor Zimmerman assured Supervisor Gross that whatever problems Arlington experienced with Smart Growth in the past won't re-occur in Mason District".
Freddies?
Was there any discussion about the traffic impact on Arlington?
We have to stop electing and re-electing 8th District Machine Democrats. They only care about making redevelopment deals with developers. Democratic Party inside-the-beltway long ago ceased being the party of the poor, working poor, and middle class.
Audrey Clement for Arlington County Board !
To the people in Arlington who want Arlington to be divided into 5 electoral districts for County Board respresentation -- Penny Gross has become Dictator of Mason District over the past 20 years.
Idiots on the Fairfax County Planning Commission believe vehicles on Route 50 and Columbia Pike will enter and emerge from 5 mile long tunnels that begin at the Fairfax County-Arlington County border and end near the Pentagon.
Correction: Penny Gross is Mason District Dictator for Life.
Anyone who lives near Bailey's or Seven Corners neighborhoods and who feels they might be affected by the rezoning should consider attending the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday. Held in the auditorium of Fairfax County Government Center, begins at 3 PM.
This was mentioned to the Arlington County Board yesterday. Mr. Vihstadt wants the Arlington County Board to be current on this issue.
Assuming the Arlington County Board had approved a streetcar for the Pike, how much traffic from a redeveloped Pike corridor in Fairfax County would the Pike streetcar have had to contend with?
All the local jurisdictions in Northern VA are governed like islands, no matter what anyone may say about various regional authorities, committees, commissions. etc.
Who appeared as the lead speaker and proponenbt of the rezoning? Coalition for Smarter Growth VIP Stewart Schwartz
Future of Annandale, Baileys, and Seven Corners - Same as Arlington and Alexandria, FC Planning Staff, Smart Growth Inc., and Developers make secret mega-infill deals that the Board of Supervisors will rubber stamp.
I blame Penny Gross. She's let everything deteriorate in Mason Disrtrict since the turn of the century and now she says it all has to come down and be replaced by mixed-use redevelopment.
This is what haappens when Fairfax County's Supervisors become Dictators for Life.
This is what happens when the pols, business, owners, chamber of commerce, and residents don't cooperate and do parcel-by-parcel, business-by-business makeovers and just let everything start looking shabby.
Sleepy Hollow's 'community leaders' were 'facilitated' into acquiesence by Planning Staff.
LOL. Sleepy Hollow isn't going to be sleepy when Smart Growth gets going.
Wait until you see the density that will be inflicted on Pentagon City.
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