Planning Commission Regular Meeting

Clara Swirestaffyeah so probably the best one to compare and the most obvious would probably be the capstone so that's directly north of the site it's a smaller site so that's six point one five acres it's two hundred and seventy five units and so the density is forty four point seven for that proposal. The Davies property, that was one that was recently approved, also has quite a much smaller area. That's 2.69 acres, 276 units for a density of 102.6 units per acre. And so it kind of falls in the mid range at full build out at 61 Units per acre and at phase one it would be Way below any of the the densities that we that I've studied for this project.

Speaker 5as well as a major certificate of appropriateness for architecture and landscaping the Planning Commission will only make a recommendation on the rezoning and the general development plan the subject property is located and University Drive across from this across from the Fairfax County judicial complex to the west a two-story office building in the activity center to the north and east of the site a single-family home when the activities place center type to the south that property is known as the Davies property which is previously approved for an upper-story residential mixed-use building with up to 276 apartments and office and retail on chambered road and finally a across to the east side of the site is a three-story townhome community

Dave McElhaneyapplicantThis was a slide that's been updated since we last presented to you and we're really proud of this When you take a look at the total total usable area that's associated with our greenway And that includes the greenway area and then the areas that are shaded in blue those are publicly publicly accessible areas We're about about 32,000 square feet Just in reference, when you compare it to what the Davies property had, they were considerably less. We're about three times more than what they had. I will also share with you, this doesn't even include the square footage that's associated with the pool in Building C, the bottom right corner of building, if you will. So when you kind of add up all these public spaces, it's about 25% open space.

Daniel Drummondto the kind of discussion we had before about what happens to the tenants. I recognize it's a commercial property, so it's a bit different. You have it here. Another slide had a better view showing the Davies property.

speak a little bit about how you plan on coordinating construction and timing vis-a-vis the Davies property, considering that's a pretty condensed area?

John Regan JrapplicantIf we get approved, it would take about a year for site plan approvals. The biggest issue, and it relates to the Davies as well, is the current interest rate. I mean, the current interest rate is 7%. Right. And that takes a lot of projects out of play, making them approved, but that comes down to math. And if the interest rates improve over the next, let's say, year and a half, then we're going to push straight into construction and build this project. Okay. I think the other thing you did to do what Dave was talking about on the Davies, we know that along this edge, and if you can put the Davies property in your mind's eye, we might, whoever, they're higher than we are. So if we go first, then we may have to put in some type of shooting and shoring

Daniel DrummondAnd on that note, how high is the Davies property going to be? What's constructed? How many stories? Sorry? I don't know. Five, six, five? Six, seven. All yours.

Larry Weaverpublic commentMy name is Larry Weaver. I live at 10551 James Rimway, Chantry Square. I'm the president of the Chantry Square Homeowners Association. I've been a resident of the city for 30 years. My house has paid off next month. So having said all of that, our objections fall into three categories. First, traffic. I've heard a great deal of discussion about the walkable city. American towns and cities were walkable until the advent of the automobile. Until we can kill the automobile, we have to take it into account. When you add the Davies property and this domino and the next domino to come after it, because there is one clearly coming, you are dramatically increasing the traffic on 123, which is already a parking lot during rush hours in the morning and the afternoon.