Staff proposes removing legacy 0.35 FAR overlay; presents 2.0 FAR option for Fairfax Corner subunit B1 and 0.42 for reserve parcel

At the meeting Ryan explained staff removed a legacy 0.35 FAR overlay that had been superseded by existing entitlements and replaced it with what the draft describes as "a single option for mixed use development up to 1.20 FAR" for the subunit framework but also noted the draft text presents an option in the B1 subunit that staff characterized as 2.0 FAR in order to align intent across the subunit. He told the task force, "So what we did was, we we removed that 0.35 FAR overlay and instead replaced that with the with the, proposal for today, which is at that 2.0, which would be across the entire, subunit b 1," and clarified that some transcript passages about decimal placement are ambiguous in the recorded copy and that published draft text will be authoritative.

Staff also said the I1 reserve was decoupled from B1 and that the draft currently shows I1 with a reserve-specific FAR described as up to 0.42 for the parcel in question; the transportation analysis tested the 0.42 scenario and staff said higher-intensity proposals (for example, 1.0 or higher) would require additional proposer-provided land-use mixes and further transportation study before staff could recommend a change. Task-force members requested staff double-check numerical consistency in the published draft and confirm which numeric FAR values are official.