Medical offices were among the many construction suggestions area residents and landowners recently proposed for property in the Sully District in the 2001 Area Plans Review (APR) nominations.
They were actually proposed amendments to Fairfax County's Comprehensive Plan dealing with land in the Sully District. Each one was considered by a special task force and then by the Fairfax County Planning Commission, Feb. 28, and the county Board of Supervisors, March 18.
In the past two weeks, Centre View presented synopses of most of the proposals — and the changes approved by both entities. Below is the last one:
* MEDICAL OFFICES: On behalf of Inova Health Care Services, attorney Timothy Sampson nominated 19 parcels totaling 65 acres along Rugby Road, Ox Trail and Joseph Siewick Drive. They're owned by Inova Health Care Services, Inova Health Systems Foundation, Fair Oaks Medical Plaza, Fair Oaks Professional Building and Allimaye Taylor.
These parcels are currently earmarked for hospital and related low-intensity, ancillary medical office, service uses and clinics. Sampson proposed increasing the allowed intensity of use and raising the permitted building height from a 60-foot to a 100-foot maximum.
He wrote that these changes are necessary to enable Inova Health Care Services "to provide the highest-quality health care services to residents of Fairfax County. Development at the Fair Oaks Hospital campus has reached its maximum potential under existing density recommendations, while the community and its demands for health-care services continue to grow."
The task force and Planning Commission approved this one; however Supervisor Michael R. Frey (R-Sully) did not want the building height to be more than 60 feet, on the perimeter of the site, and the Board of Supervisors agreed.
The hospital also wanted access there, on land between Alder Woods Drive and the parkway, but Frey disapproved, saying, "I don't think access to the [Fairfax County] Parkway works there at Route 50 and Rugby Road, and they already have access nearby."