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Fairfax County Department of Planning and Zoning
www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dpz/fairfaxforward.htm
June 2012
2011 AREA PLANS REVIEW RETROSPECTIVE:
•Evaluate APR Process
• Community meetings and online survey
• What worked well? What could be improved?
2012 FAIRFAX FORWARD:
•Find alternative means to manage Comprehensive Plan and planning activities
Evolution:
• Common themes:
• Open to almost all ideas, but review too reactive
to parcel-specific nominations
• Community involved, but no longer community
driven
• Provided order to review, but process too rigid
Evolution:2011 Area Plans Review Retrospective
Evolution:2012 Fairfax Forward
• Goals of proposed planning strategy:
• Maintain systematic approach
• Expand community involvement
• Promote logical and flexible review
• Emphasize plan monitoring and maintenance
- State of the Plan
- Comprehensive Plan amendment database
- Comprehensive Land Use Plan Map
- Concept for Future Development Land
Classification System and Concept Map
- Editorial updates: Overview & Character sections
Housekeeping:
State of the Plan, Published May 2012http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dpz/projects/state_of_the_plan.pdf
- Evaluation of Plan activities
- Focus on last ten years
- Amendment statistics:
- 300+ amendments adopted
- Common themes in adopted amendments
- Supporting development in mixed-use centers
- Preserve stable, residential areas
- Changes to existing and planned development potential particularly in activity centers:
- 80% of planned non-residential development
- 74% of planned residential development
Comprehensive Land Use Plan Maphttp://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dpz/comprehensiveplan/compplanmap.htm
- Adopted June 19, 2012
- GIS-based map
- Amended through BOS
action May 2012
- Update some existing
conditions
- public parks
- public facilities
Concept for Future DevelopmentBOS Public Hearing June 19, 2012
- State of the Plan
- Comprehensive Land Use Plan Map
- Concept for Future Development Land
Classification System and Concept Map
- Editorial updates: Overview & Character sections
- Comprehensive Plan amendment database
Housekeeping:
Activity center
planning
Neighborhood
planning
2013 Planning Alternative:
Policy Plan and
countywide
amendments
BOS-authorized
amendments &
special studies
Comprehensive Plan
Amendment
Work Program
Informed by ongoing plan monitoring efforts
Concept for Future Development:
- Suburban Centers
- Transit Station
Areas
- Community
Business Centers
- Industrial Areas
- Suburban
Neighborhoods
- Low Density
Residential Areas
- Tysons Corner
Urban Center
- Increased education and outreach component
- Earlier and more wide-ranging engagement
- Individual studies: Range of participation methods
tailored to type of amendment
- Community meetings
- Working groups
- Social media
Community Involvement:
- Respond to survey/community comments
- Expands community participation in planning
- Ability to look holistically at parts of the Plan
- Ability to proactively conduct planning
- Keeps Plan in a more up to date and relevant format
Conclusions: Comprehensive Plan Amendment Work Program
Call or visit the DPZ office:
(703)324-1380
12055 Government Center Parkway, Suite 730
Fairfax, VA 22035
Send an e-mail:
Visit the website/ submit comments anonymously:
www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dpz/fairfaxforward.htm
Sign up for the Comprehensive Plan listserv:
www.fairfaxcounty.gov/email/lists
