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Transforming Tysons
Prepared for thePlanning Commission’sTysons Corner Committee
Fairfax County
Department of Planning and ZoningDepartment of Transportation January 15, 2010
Tysons Corner Urban Center Areawide and District RecommendationsDRAFT Plan Amendment
Clean Version (“Track Changes” Off)
Transforming Tysons
Prepared for thePlanning Commission’sTysons Corner Committee
Fairfax County
Department of Planning and ZoningDepartment of Transportation January 15, 2010
Tysons Corner Urban Center Areawide and District RecommendationsDRAFT Plan Amendment
Markup Version With Changes from Previous Draft
County
of
Fairfax,
Virginia
MEMORANDUM
DATE:January14,2010
TO:
TysonsCommittee
of
the
Fairfax
County
Planning
Commisso
FROM:
James
P.
Zook,DirectorDepartment
of
Planningad
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SUBJECT:
Transmittal
of
draftTysonsCoerUrbanCenterPlanAmendment
(Staffs
thirddraft
orTysons
PiaText)
InSeptember2009,thesecond
"Straw
Man"draft
of
Plantextwasprovided
by
staff
totheTysonsCommittee
of
theFairfaxCountyPlanningCommission.Thisdocumentwas
staff's
seconddraft
of
AreawideandDistrictlevelComprehensivePlantextfortheTysons
Corner
UrbanCenter,whichutilizedandexpandedupontheTysonsLandUseTaskForcerecommendationdocumentthatwaspresentedtotheBoard
of
Supervisors
in
September2008.BetweenOctober2008andDecember2009,thePlanning
Commission's
TysonsCommitteeheldmeetingstoconsiderpresentationsonmanyissueareas
as
wellasfindings
of
additionalanalyses.Also,atthesemeetings,theTysonsLandUseTask
Force's
DraftReviewCommittee(DRC)presentedtheirrecommendedchangestothisdraftplan.Finally,during2009
staff
workedwiththeGeorgelas
Group
onademonstrationprojectproposedfortheTysonsWeststation.Thishelpeddevelopunderstanding
as
tohowthedraftplanmightbeimplementedthroughthedevelopmentreviewprocess.ThelatestdraftPlanAmendment,
as
preparedbystaff,hasbenefitedgreatlyfromtheadditionalanalysesanddiscussionswiththeTysonsCommittee,theDRC,theDemonstrationProjectTeam,andothers.
This
documentprovidesrevisions
in
"track
changes"toassisttheCommittee
in
identifyingthechangestothepreviousdraft
"Straw
ManII."A
copy
of
thedraftPlanAmendment(withandwithouttrackchanges)canbedownloadedfromthewebatwww.fairfaxcounty.gov/tysons.Thisdocumentprovidestextboxesidentifyingwhere
we
believethe
DRC
mayhavesubstantivedifferenceswiththerecommendations
in
thisdraftPlantext.
In
addition,there
are
staff
notesandcommentswhichprovidebackgroundandcomparisoninformation.
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PLANNING
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ZONING
Tysons Draft Plan - Jan 15 2010
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Sections
« prev | next »- LOCATION AND BOUNDARY
- PLANNING HISTORY
- TYSONS LAND USE TASK FORCE
- GUIDING PLANNING PRINCIPLES
- THE FRAMEWORK TO TRANSFORM TYSONS
- ACHIEVING THE VISION
- DISTRICTS WITHIN TYSONS
- IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY
- DETAILED PLANNING
- IMPLEMENTATION ENTITY
- FUNDING STRATEGIES
- REGULATORY FRAMEWORK
- PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS
- PRIVATE-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS
- PHASING
- LAND USE
- LAND USE PATTERN
- MIX OF USES
- TIERED INTENSITY
- TOD District Intensity
- Non-TOD District Intensity
- Circulator Intensity
- Bonus Intensity
- Allocating Floor Area Between Sites
- LAND USE GUIDELINES
- Green Buildings
- Coordinated Development and Parcel Consolidation
- Existing Buildings and Services
- Residential and Other Noise-Sensitive Uses
- Phasing Development to Transportation and Public Facilities
- TRANSPORTATION
- TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE AND SERVICES
- Public Transportation Goals
- Metrorail
- System of Circulators
- Local Bus Service
- Multimodal Transportation Hubs
- The Road Network
- Overview
- Context Sensitive Solutions
- Grid of Streets
- Street Types and Design Guidelines
- Highway Connections and Beltway Crossings
- Bicycle Network
- Bicycle Parking
- Wayfinding
- Level of Service
- Impacts on Roads
- TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT
- Transportation Demand Management
- Parking Management
- Traffic Management and Maintenance
- MAINTAINING A BALANCE BETWEEN LAND USE AND TRANSPORTATION
- Monitoring System
- Funding for Transportation Improvements
- ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP
- MORE SUSTAINABLE THAN TYSONS TODAY
- STORMWATER MANAGEMENT
- NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
- TREE CANOPY GOALS
- INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
- GREEN BUILDINGS
- PARKS AND RECREATION
- Green Network Components
- ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP GUIDELINES
- Parks and Open Space
- Stormwater Design
- Green Building Design and Energy/Resource Conservation
- Setting Future Environmental Goals for Tysons
- PUBLIC FACILITIES
- SCHOOLS
- LIBRARY
- FIRE AND RESCUE
- POLICE
- PARKS
- WASTEWATER MANAGEMENT
- WATER
- ELECTRIC POWER
- NATURAL GAS
- TELECOMMUNICATIONS
- ARTS FACILITIES
- PUBLIC FACILITY GUIDELINES
- Phasing Public Facilities
- Public Facilities Sustainability Goals
- Information and Communications Technology
- URBAN DESIGN
- URBAN DESIGN PRINCIPLES
- URBAN DESIGN RECOMMENDATIONS
- Pedestrian Realm Recommendations
- Street Grid and Block Pattern
- Streetscape Design
- Building and Site Design
- Build-to Lines and Building Frontages
- Bulk and Massing
- Step-Backs
- Building Articulation
- Fenestration and Transparency
- Parking Design
- Building Height
- Tysons West
- SOUTH SUBDISTRICT
- NORTH SUBDISTRICT
- Tysons Central 7
- NORTH TYSONS CENTRAL 7 SUBDISTRICT
- Tysons Central 123
- NORTH TYSONS CENTRAL 123 SUBDISTRICT
- Subarea 1: Tysons II
- Subarea 2: South West Park
- Subarea 3: Lillian Court
- SOUTH TYSONS CENTRAL 123 SUBDISTRICT
- Subarea 1: Tysons Corner Center
- Subarea 3: Towers Crescent North
- Subarea 4: Towers Crescent South
- Tysons East
- SCOTTS RUN CROSSING AND COLSHIRE SUBDISTRICTS
- OLD MEADOW AND ANDERSON SUBDISTRICTS
- West Side
- OLD COURTHOUSE SPRING BRANCH SUBDISTRICT
- ASHGROVE SUBDISTRICT
- GOSNELL SUBDISTRICT
- Old Courthouse
- SOUTH OLD COURTHOUSE SUBDISTRICT
- Subarea 1 – Nonresidential Edge
- NORTHWEST OLD COURTHOUSE SUBDISTRICT
- Subarea 1
- Subarea 2
- Subarea 3
- NORTHEAST OLD COURTHOUSE SUBDISTRICT
- Additional Guidance for Northwest and Northeast Subdistricts
- North Central
- OFFICE SUBDISTRICT
- Subarea 1: DAAR Office Area
- Subarea 2: Capital Beltway Office Area
- URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD SUBDISTRICT
- Subarea 1: Rotonda/Post Neighborhoods
- Subarea 3: West Park Urban Neighborhood
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