Fairfax County meeting outlines Madison Homes’ plan to add option for 3–4 DU/acre on Gallows Road; residents press stormwater and traffic concerns

Leah Neibauer, the main planner for the plan amendment review, told a virtual Fairfax County community meeting that a site‑specific plan amendment (SSPA) nomination for parcels along Gallows Road seeks an option to increase planned density from 1–2 dwelling units per acre to 3–4 DU/acre. The nominator, Madison Homes, is proposing about 32 single‑family detached homes on roughly 8.1 acres and has added parcels to consolidate the assemblage after earlier proposals on the site were withdrawn or rejected.

The proposed amendment is intended as an optional change to the Fairfax County comprehensive plan that would allow future rezoning to a PDH‑4 pattern; staff said the amendment is in the impact‑analysis phase and that a staff report will be prepared for later public hearings before the planning commission and the Board of Supervisors. Kathy Taylor of the law firm Walsh Colucci, who said she represents the nominator, described the concept as a lower‑density alternative to earlier, higher‑density proposals and said it is “meant to serve what we believe is an appropriate transition” between the denser townhome neighborhood to the west and detached homes to the south and east.

Transportation and pedestrian connections were a major…