19980428 r-98-19RESOLUTION NO. 1998 - R-98-19
RESOLUTION TO DENY THE REQUEST OF OJB/AJRE JOINT
VENTURE, LIMITED LIABILITY CORPORATION, BY STUART
SCHOOLER, MANAGING MEMBER, FOR A SPECIAL EXCEPTION
TO CHAPTER 26 OF THE CITY CODE ON THE PREMISES KNOWN
AS 11015 MAIN STREET, AND MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED
AS TAX MAP PARCEL 57-1-((2))-037.
WHEREAS, OJB/AJRE Joint Venture, Limited Liability Corporation has
submitted Application No. SE-212-97-1 requesting a Special Exception to the City Code
sections listed below:
Sections 26-173(c) and (d) - to allow a 15-foot-wide front yard on
Main Street and a 23.18-foot-wide front yard on Lee Highway where
25-foot-wide front yards are required, and to provide 22%
landscaped open space where 25% is required; and
Sections 26-39.4 and 26-39.5 to allow 8.5-foot-wide parking
spaces where 9-foot-wide spaces are required and to eliminate the
required loading space; and
Section 26-69(a)(1) - to allow elimination of some of the required
interior and perimeter parking lot landscaping; and
Section 26-43(a)(3) - to allow reduction of the required 1 O-foot-wide
setback for ground-mounted signage on an arterial street.
WHEREAS, City Council has carefully considered the application, the
recommendation of the staff and testimony received at the public hearing; and
WHEREAS, City Council has determined that the proposed Special Exceptions are
not appropriate because the proposal does not meet the requisites established by City of
Fairfax Code Sections 26-173(0, 26-39.7, 26-71.2, 26-48 and Section 26-103(c) for the
following reasons:
1. The proposed development is not consistent with the
recommendations of the Comprehensive Plan and Community
Appearance Plan.
The proposed development is based on a site plan that is inconsistent
with the purpose and intent of the applicable provisions of the City
Code as follows:
a. Adequate on-site facilities for safe vehicular movement
and parking are not provided.
bo
Environmental and aesthetic features to compensate for
the requested reductions of setbacks, landscaping and
open space are not provided.
c. The special exception requests are not necessary to
permit the reasonable use of the subject property.
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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of
Fairfax on this 28th day of April, 1998, that Application No. SE-212-97-1 be and hereby is
DENIED.
Adopted this 28thday of Apri 1
,1998.
Mayor
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