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Stacy Sherwood Community Center

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Status set at City Council Meeting on Oct 14, 2025

Project wiki — a maintained overview, meeting history, and recorded positions.

  1. Proposed
  2. Under review
    Oct 14, 2025
  3. Decided

Summary

The Stacy Sherwood Community Center project involves a new Willard-Sherwood Health and Community Center to be built at 3740 Blenheim Boulevard (Tax Map 57-2-02-175A) in the RM zoning district, with a planned bridge connection to the existing Stacy C. Sherwood Community Center. The project is a joint development between the City of Fairfax and Fairfax County, combining county health services (a woman and infant center, nutrition programs, dental, early childhood development, etc.) with city-operated community services including a gym, fitness center, senior center, preschool and youth programs, and administrative offices. On October 14, 2025, the City Council approved the necessary land-use entitlements — a Special Use Permit, two special exceptions (side yard modification and parking reduction), and a Certificate of Appropriateness — each by a 4-3 or 4-2 vote, with the building addition to the existing Sherwood Center included only as an optional component. On April 28, 2026, the Council unanimously adopted Resolution R-26-13 authorizing the project to proceed to construction, while explicitly excluding the optional performing arts space renovation and addition at the existing Stacy C. Sherwood Community Center, and adopting amendments to the Joint Development Agreement with Fairfax County.

Open questions & options on the table

  • The optional renovation and addition to the performing arts space at the existing Stacy C. Sherwood Community Center was excluded from R-26-13 and will not proceed at this time — its future disposition has not been resolved.

What members have said

Hardy-Chandler

Hardy-Chandler made the motions for both the special exceptions (Oct. 14, 2025) and the resolution to proceed to construction (Apr. 28, 2026), in each case explicitly including the language designating the Sherwood building addition as optional and, ultimately, excluding the performing arts renovation. She expressed enthusiasm at the Apr. 28, 2026 meeting, noting it was thrilling to see the project come to fruition and thanking staff for incorporating resident feedback and identifying cost efficiencies.

Hall

Hall voted no on the Special Use Permit and the two special exceptions at the Oct. 14, 2025 meeting, and voted no on the Certificate of Appropriateness, opposing the land-use approvals. Hall voted yes on the unanimous Apr. 28, 2026 resolution to proceed to construction.

Peterson

Peterson voted no on all three land-use motions at the Oct. 14, 2025 meeting (SUP, special exceptions, and Certificate of Appropriateness), consistently opposing the approvals. Peterson voted yes on the Apr. 28, 2026 resolution to proceed to construction.

McQuillen

McQuillen voted no on the Special Use Permit and the two special exceptions at the Oct. 14, 2025 meeting, but voted yes on the Certificate of Appropriateness (the only one of the three dissenting members to do so). McQuillen voted yes on the Apr. 28, 2026 resolution to proceed to construction.

Positions as recorded in meeting minutes; votes without recorded comment aren’t summarized.

Discussion time

Minutes of named discussion per transcribed meeting.

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Full history

  1. Oct 14, 2025City Council· item 7ain progress#

    [7a] A building addition to the Stacy C. Sherwood Community Center was approved as an optional component of the project under each of the land-use motions.

    passedApprove Special Use Permit for expanded government use in RM district at 3740 Blenheim Boulevard (Tax Map 57-2-02-175A).
    ✓ Read✓ Amos✓ Bates✕ Hall✓ Hardy-Chandler✕ McQuillen✕ Peterson
    passedAdopt resolution approving two special exceptions (required side yard modification and parking reduction) at 3740 Blenheim Boulevard (Tax Map 57-2-02-175A).
    ✓ Read✓ Amos✓ Bates✕ Hall✓ Hardy-Chandler✕ McQuillen✕ Peterson
    passedApprove Certificate of Appropriateness for architecture and landscaping at 3740 Blenheim Boulevard (Tax Map 57-2-02-175A).
    ✓ Read✓ Amos✓ Bates✕ Hall✓ Hardy-Chandler✓ McQuillen✕ Peterson
    minutes ↗agenda ↗
  2. Apr 28, 2026City Council· item 9b#

    [9b] The optional renovation and addition to the performing arts space at the existing Stacy C. Sherwood Community Center was explicitly excluded from the approved resolution and will not proceed at this time.

    passedAdopt resolution (R-26-13) authorizing the Willard-Sherwood Health and Community Center Project to proceed to construction, excluding the optional performing arts space renovation, and adopting amendments to the Joint Development Agreement with Fairfax County.
    ✓ Amos✓ Bates✓ Hall✓ Hardy-Chandler✓ McQuillen✓ Peterson
    minutes ↗agenda ↗

Discussed alongside

Topics that come up in the same meetings.

Willard-Sherwood Community Center2 meetings