Sully District Council of Citizens Associations

P.O. Box 230042
Sully Station, VA 20120-0042

Agenda for 17 April 2023 Joint Sully District Land Use and Transportation Committee (JSDLU&TC) Meeting
by Jeff Parnes

1. The Joint Sully District Land Use and Transportation Committee Meeting will meet in person at 7:00 p.m. on 17 April 2023 at the Sully Government Facility Meeting Room, 4900 Stonecroft Boulevard, Chantilly, VA, 20151. This meeting is conducted with participation by members of both the Land Use and Transportation committees of the SDCCA and WFCCA
2. Time to renew your association's membership in the Sully District Council. Our membership application can now be submitted on line! Please complete it, and then print a copy to enclose with your check.

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3. The Joint Sully District Land Use and Transportation Committee Meeting will have a online option. The WebEx meeting URL is below.
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5. Jim Neighbors, the Sully District Council Secretary, has recently updated the JSDLU&TC Land Use Matrix XLSX PDF.

6. The Sully District Council of Citizens Associations Membership will meet on 26 April 2023
   • Topic: Hate crimes in Fairfax County
   Attendees:
   • Fairfax County School System Superintendent Dr. Michelle C. Reid (may be late)
   • Fairfax County Commonwealth's Attorney Steve T. Descano
   • Anti-Defamation League Deputy Regional Director, Michelle Manger
   
   
7. The March 2023 Joint Sully District Land Use and Transportation Committee meeting minutes are posted online.
7. Joint Sully Land Use and Transportation Committee topics:
   
   • In light of an amendment to the Code of Virginia, the county has provided us with a statement be to read when our land use committee meets with a prospective applicant for a rezoning or proffer condition amendment (PCA) for new residential development and/or new residential use in areas of the County that are not exempt from Virginia Code Section 15.2-2303.4. It is recommended that if our committee is meeting with more than one applicant to read this statement for each rezoning/PCA.
   • All times estimates are provided as a courtesy, presentations will start after the completion of the proceeding presentation, however long it takes. Recommend that presenters be ready at least 30 minutes prior to their scheduled time.
   • Prospective presenters are requested to register on the Land Use and Transportation Committee Presentation Registration Form as a condition of their presentation.
   
   
   • The Joint Sully Land Use and Transportation Committee (JSDLU&TC) will meet on Monday, 17 April 2023..
     1. 7:00 — Parking Reimagined
        • At the March JSDLU&TC meeting the committee determined that it had objections to the county's proposed zoning amendment (see the meeting agenda for background). It asked Jin Hart to draft an initial resolution for the committee's consideration at tonight's meeting.
        • When on March 23, 2023, the Supreme Court of Virginia, in the case styled Berry v. Board of Supervisors, invalidated the purported ZMOD amendment, and declared it void, finding that the Board of Supervisors' actions prevented the public from participating in the manner required by the Virginia Freedom of Information Act, and potentially limited public participation and input into the process, the county postponed the Parking Reimagined amendment.
     2. 7:30 — ZMOD #2 (including Agritourism)
        • On April 11, 2023, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors authorized readvertising of the ZMOD amendment, together with all purported subsequent amendments, including Agritourism, for public hearings with the Planning Commission on May 3, 2023 and with the Board of Supervisors on May 9, 2023;
        • Because the committee strongly supports facilitation of citizen and neighborhood engagement in the land use and transportation approval process, the long-standing tradition of robust citizen participation in governmental public hearings before significant decisions, as well as the principles of governmental transparency and accountability; it objected to the consideration of the original ZMOD amendment when it was being considered during the covid pandemic due to limited opportunity for public participation
        • When the proposed county's original Zoning Ordinance Modification Project (ZMOD) was being considered the committee objected to its approval
        • The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, over numerous citizen objections, and disregarding significant recommendations of the Fairfax County Planning Commission, adopted a rewrite of the Fairfax County Zoning Ordinance, known as ZMOD (Zoning Ordinance Modernization Project), on March 23, 2021
        • The committee also objected to the subsequent Agritourism amendment which the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, again over numerous citizen objections, adopted on June 22, 2021
        • On March 23, 2023, the Supreme Court of Virginia, as reported above, invalidated the adopted ZMOD amendment, and declared it void. The court ruling invalidating ZMOD also invalidated all subsequent amendments to it.
        • Jim Hart has prepared a draft resolution reaffirming our objection of the ZMOD amendment, together with all purported subsequent amendments, including Agritourism,
     3. 8:00 — Truck Ban on Bull Run Post Office Road
        • The committee believes that the through truck traffic on Bull Run Post Office Road creates conflicts with neighborhood traffic, is inconsistent with the protected residential and rural character of the area, and degrades water quality in the Occoquan, with pollutants discharged from trucks onto the road surface and into the nearby streams, potentially affecting rare plants and aquatic life such as the federally endangered dwarf wedgemussel
        • A through truck ban on the segment of Bull Run Post Office Road between Lee Highway and the Loudoun County line was previously recommended for approval by the Board of Supervisors in September 2000, and implemented by the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) for several years, but in approximately 2015, VDOT removed the signs, and required that the process be restarted, so that the truck ban be readopted.
        • As the paving of the Loudoun County portion of Bull Run Post Office Road in 2015 provided a paved road all the way to Braddock Road, and the continued development of eastern Loudoun County, truck traffic in the area has continued to increase, impacting the Fairfax County residential communities and the protected environment
        • The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors on September 15, 2020 voted to approve reinstatement of the truck ban, but despite the 9 month deadline for the Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB) to act, no vote was taken on Fairfax County's request, and the truck ban was not reinstated.
        • The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors on September 13, 2022 again voted to endorse reinstatement of the truck ban, with a different alternate route
        • The Joint Committee supported the truck ban in 2020 and 2022
        • VDOT has advertised that they are now accepting public comments on the reinstatement of the truck ban
        • In view of the foregoing, the committee still strongly supports the reinstatement of the truck ban. Jim Hart has prepared a draft resolution on this matter requesting VDOT reinstate the through truck ban on Bull Run Post Office Road, between Lee Highway and the Loudoun County line, with the alternate route as proposed, forthwith and requests VDOT to ensure that this time around, the CTB acts within the 9 month statutory deadline.
   
   
8. New Business
• Tour of the Preserve at Westfield
Scheduled for 10 AM on 13 May


9. Scheduled Meetings/Events
• 2023 Paving and Restriping Program
• The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT)'s Northern Virginia Paving Program improves hundreds of miles of roads in Fairfax County every year. VDOT and the Fairfax County Department of Transportation FCDOT) use this program as an opportunity to increase driver, bicyclist and pedestrian safety with road and crosswalk improvements while minimizing the financial investment in restriping work.
• The repaving program can include limited bike lane, shoulder and crosswalk improvements with signage and markings. Bike lanes or shoulders are usually installed where excess pavement width is available. Many factors need to be considered for the installation of crosswalks, including the traffic speeds and volumes, available sight distance, presence of curb ramps, and pedestrian activity. 
• Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, FCDOT will hold community meetings virtually. For those who can not attend, a video of each meeting will be available on the district paving and restriping page after the event. 
• The community is invited to provide striping-related feedback by attending a virtual public meeting and/or by submitting comments online.
• Sully Public Information Meeting — April 18 Join Online: Dial In: 571-429-5982 Phone Conf ID: 610 801 213#
  Submitting Feedback: Comments close Tuesday, May 2
• Route 28 Bypass Public Information Meeting
• The Prince William County Department of Transportation invites you to attend Public Information Meetings (PIMs) to learn more about an upcoming Route 28 Bypass project. The purpose of these meetings is to give you an opportunity to review the project exhibits on display, engage in information sharing and discussion, meet with Prince William County representatives, and provide input. 
• The meetings will take place in-person with a recording posted to the Route 28 Bypass website. To ensure impacted residents in both Fairfax and Prince William County are accommodated, we will hold meetings in both counties on April 19th in Fairfax County and April 20th in Prince William County with the same information provided at each session. 
• Fairfax Federation Citizen of the Year Honors Banquet
• 2021 & 2022 Years Citizens of the Year Honorees and Banquet information
  The Fairfax County Citizens of the Year Seventy-First Annual Awards Banquet is scheduled for Sunday, the Seventh of May, 2023 at the Springfield Golf & Country Club
  COY: 2021, John Litzenberger and 2022, Marco Johnson
  Citation of Merit: 2021, Paula Lettice and 2022 Michele Menapace and Linda Moore
  Special Gratitude Awardee: Peter F. Murphy
  For more inforamtion click here
10. As circumstances permit, next month's Joint Sully District Land Use and Transportation Committee meeting will start at 7 PM in the Sully Government Facility.
• The next Sully District Council meeting will be held on Wednesday, 24 May 2023.
  Topic: Report from Richmond
• Next month's Joint Sully Land Use and Transportation Committee is scheduled for Monday, 15 May 2023.
  Topic: Proposed data center or, alternatively, a warehouse on property located immediately to the west of Chantilly Auto Park. The property is bordered by Route 50 to the north and approximately 67 acres of RPA to the west and south.

Respectfully submitted,

Jeffrey M. Parnes
Land Use and Transportation Chair
Sully District Council