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Government Center visioning raises tradeoffs over green space, connections and redevelopment
Summary
At a Fairfax County task force meeting, staff outlined three Government Center visioning scenarios — enhanced government, civic center, and transit‑ready mixed use — and residents and commissioners urged preserving green space and carefully limiting vehicular connections through the campus.
Fairfax County staff presented three broad scenarios for the Government Center campus — an enhanced government center, a civic center combining cultural or educational facilities with government uses, and a transit‑ready mixed‑use option — and told the task force the eventual plan will likely blend elements from all three.
“One of the things in the original master plan included a phase 2 that would be building out that crescent of the government center … whether or not that’s feasible or economically sound, that’s to be determined,” Ryan Stewart, a county planner,…
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