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Council hears staff recommendation not to reopen comprehensive plan guidance for mixed‑use outside activity centers
Summary
Staff recommended, and the Planning Commission supported, delaying any broad rewrite of the comprehensive plan to allow mixed‑use development outside activity centers; council discussed risks including diluting investment in activity centers and local office vacancy trends.
City planning staff on Sept. 9 recommended that Fairfax City Council not pursue an immediate reevaluation of the comprehensive plan’s guidance on mixed‑use development outside designated activity centers.
Division Chief of Planning Paul Napti told council that the 2024 comprehensive plan review—conducted under a required five‑year update process—added a mixed‑use place type and parcel‑specific language that already identifies two city parcels as candidates for mixed‑use development outside activity centers (Fairfax Square and the Inova site on Cambridge Road). Napti said staff and the Planning Commission had examined property sizes, building‑to‑land value ratios and…
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