Vienna planning commission approves site changes for Green Hedges School but recommends denying enrollment increase

The Vienna Planning Commission on Feb. 11 recommended approval of several site‑plan modifications for Green Hedges School but voted to recommend denial of the school’s conditional‑use permit (CUP) to expand enrollment.

By roll call the commission approved the proposed modifications — covering lot coverage, frontage improvements, loading standards, landscaping, bicycle parking and buffering — with specific exceptions and conditions, including a requirement that a shed near the school be removed or relocated outside the buffer zone and that deferred buffer plantings be installed if phase‑2 construction does not begin within the agreed time frame. Commissioner Stephen Kenny moved the site‑plan recommendation and it carried after a recorded vote. The motion included a requirement that the school install “sound mitigation measures consistent” with the recommendation and allowed for acoustic block wall or dense vegetation as acceptable materials.

Chairman Matthew Glassman, who said he welcomed the building improvements, told the commission…