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Fairfax County task force reboots Phase 3 study, staff models about 5,465 new multifamily units to test transportation capacity
Summary
Fairfax County staff told a reconstituted task force that Phase 3 of the Fairfax Center area study will test a transportation scenario that models roughly 5,465 additional multifamily units (an estimated 8,200 residents) to understand network capacity and guide future comprehensive‑plan guidance. Results are expected in early 2026.
Fairfax County planners reopened the Phase 3 Fairfax Center area study at a task force meeting, presenting a transportation‑testing scenario that models substantially more residential development than the current comprehensive plan to identify how the county’s roads and multimodal network would cope.
“Right now we’re looking at about 5,465, or so, estimated units throughout the core area,” Ryan Stewart, a county planner with the Department of Planning and Development, said. Staff used a 1.5 residents‑per‑unit assumption to estimate about 8,200 new residents under the scenario and made unit‑size…
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