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Developer seeks rezoning for 86-townhome Ivy Park; council hears buffer, parking and drainage concerns
Summary
A developer asked Manassas Park to rezone three parcels for 86 townhomes, requesting multiple waivers including a reduced buffer from adjacent industrial property. Staff and the applicant promised traffic and drainage reviews and offered proffers totaling about $1.8 million plus $15,000 for adjacent HOA lighting.
Developer representatives and city planning staff presented a rezoning and multiple waivers for the Ivy Park site on Oct. 7, asking the Manassas Park governing body to rezone roughly six acres to a planned unit development to allow 86 townhomes.
Planning and zoning administrator Michelle Berry summarized staff’s recommendation, describing the site as split-zoned with two parcels in an I-1 industrial district and one in a planned-unit development. She told the council the applicant is seeking a 100% residential waiver (to permit no commercial uses), a reduction of the required 40-foot vegetative buffer to 20 feet with proposed landscaping and a solid vinyl fence, and six public-facilities manual (PFM) waivers that mostly affect private-street standards.
The applicant’s counsel, Jonelle Cameron of Walsh Colucci,…
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