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Fairfax County task force reviews denser residential proposals for Fair Oaks Mall and adjacent sites
Summary
Fairfax County staff and developers presented coordinated master-plan concepts for Fair Oaks Mall, Oakwood, Greenwood, Fairfax Town Center and Reserve at Fairfax Corner that would shift the core area toward more housing and less office/retail; staff will test a high-impact scenario in an April 6 transportation study.
The Fairfax Center Area Study Phase 3 Task Force on March 16 reviewed multiple developer proposals that would modestly increase density around Fair Oaks Mall and neighboring parcels while reducing office, hotel and some retail uses.
Ryan Stewart, a Fairfax County staff member who opened the meeting, said staff prepared a high-impact scenario to “stress test” the transportation network and that slides and the recording will be posted after the meeting. Stewart summarized staff’s request that mall landowners provide a coordinated master plan showing how a roughly 1.25 floor-area-ratio (FAR) could be accomplished on the mall site, and emphasized the scenario is for transportation testing, not a final plan.
Tony, a landowner representative involved in the Fair Oaks Mall proposals, told the task force, “We do propose a a meaningful potential increase in residential. That's really the jet fuel that I think would take most advantage of this incredibly strategically located property.”…
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