Local Planning & Land Use
The CWCA is represented on the Lee District Land Use Advisory Committee (LUAC) by primary and alternate representatives appointed by the CWCA President. The Committee meets monthly to consider District land use issues.
IMPORTANT Fairfax County Links Planning Commission Department of Planning and Development
EMBARK Route 1 Corridor BRT (Bus Rapid Transit)
On March 6, 2017 representatives of the Fairfax County Department of Planning and Zoning briefed the Lee District Land Use Advisory Committee on long-term plans for the improvement of the Route 1 corridor between Huntington and Fort Belvoir. Please see the fact sheet and executive brief below. Planning for the project is well underway. Details may be found on the Fairfax County web site at http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dpz/embarkrichmondhwy/ and on the next page.
In a nutshell, the long-term plan reflected by Comprehensive Plan change is to expand existing business concentrations such as Beacon Hill along the Route 1 corridor -- imagine a series of small-scale Rosslyns or Ballstons. Connecting those business and higher-density residential centers would be a BRT (bus rapid transit) and, a number of years from now, a subterranean extension of the Metro from Huntington to Fort Belvoir. The notion of a BRT is to have two travel lanes in the center of the corridor dedicated to buses that would run continuously similar to trolley, light rail, or Metro. Regular traffic lanes would be on either side of the BRT. A currently operating BRT is on Route 1 between Crystal City and Alexandria.
If you would like more information about the EMBARK project, please go to the Web site Meetings or Presentations pages at http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dpz/embarkrichmondhwy/documents.htm.
OLDER NEWS:
Matters pending before the LUAC during the Winter of 2016 that may have impacts over a broad area include the following:
1) Top Golf site proposed change to master plan and rezoning request. (documents below)
--On the Kingstowne TopGolf site – proposed: 198 townhomes & 70,000 square feet of retail shopping, including a proposed Whole Foods store. http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dpz/fairfaxforward/pa/topgolf/topgolf.htmhttp://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dpz/fairfaxforward/pa/topgolf/topgolf.htm http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/breaking_ground/2015/10/topgolf-alexandria-lease-ending-will-close.html
2) Kingstowne Business Center (KBC) rezoning. (documents below)
Key Dates: Planning Commission vote on April 13, 2016; vote by Board of Supervisors TBD
--In the Kingstowne Business Center, adjacent to the movie multiplex -- proposed: 800 apartments in four towers & 68,000 square feet of retail shopping.
County Planning Staff report: http://ldsnet.fairfaxcounty.gov/ldsnet/ldsdwf/4520976.PDF
https://www.cooley.com/files/TheFairfaxNewsletterVol60No16August32015.pdf (pg. 2-3)