Public Hearing Meeting
Saturday, March 15, 2003 - - 9:30 a.m.


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OPENING

1. Calling the Roll.

Council Action:_________________________________________________________

2. Public Discussion Period. [No more than 30 Minutes] [This
period is restricted to items not
listed on the docket.]

Council Action:_________________________________________________________

REPORTS OF BOARDS, COMMISSIONS AND COMMITTEES

ACTION CONSENT CALENDAR¹ (3-8)

Planning Commission

3. SPECIAL USE PERMIT #2002-0117
85 S BRAGG ST

Public Hearing and Consideration of a request for a special use permit for a commercial school for nursing assistants; zoned OCM-100/Office Commercial Medium. Applicant: Gloria B. Quist.

COMMISSION ACTION: Recommend Approval by unanimous consent

Public Hearing and Consideration of a request for a special use permit to operate a massage establishment; zoned CD/Commercial Downtown. Applicant: Jette Keis Hansen, doing business as Old Town Massage Center.

COMMISSION ACTION: Recommend Approval by unanimous consent

STUDIO BODY LOGIC
Public Hearing and Consideration of a request for a special use permit to operate a pilates studio (commercial school) with a parking reduction; zoned CL/Commercial Low. Applicant: Studio Body Logic, LLC, by Karen L. Garcia.

Public Hearing and Consideration of a review of a special use permit for off-street parking within 300 feet of a church; zoned CDX/Commercial Downtown. Applicant: Scripture Church, by Harry P. Hart, attorney.

Public Hearing and Consideration of a request for a special use permit to change the hours of operation and ownership of an existing restaurant; zoned CL/Commercial Low. Applicant: Jose Rivera.

Public Hearing and Consideration of a request for a development special use permit, with site plan, to add service bays and a parking structure to the existing automobile sales facility; zoned CDD-7/Coordinated Development District. Applicant: Alexandria Toyota Inc., by Harry P. Hart, attorney.

Public Hearing and Consideration of a request for a special use permit for a restaurant and for an off-street parking reduction; zoned CSL/Commercial Service Low. Applicant: James Lee.

COMMISSION ACTION: Recommend Approval 7-0

Public Hearing and Consideration of designation of property as blighted and consideration of proposed work plan to abate blighted conditions. Staff: City of Alexandria, Code Enforcement, by Art D. Dahlberg, Director.

Public Hearing and Consideration of a request for a development special use permit extension for construction of a senior housing and assisted-living high-rise facility; zoned CDD-9/Coordinated Development District. Applicant: Cameron Associates, LLC, by Duncan W. Blair, attorney.

Public Hearing and Consideration of a request for a development special use permit, with site plan and subdivision, to construct single-family dwellings; zoned R-20/Residential. Applicant: Sutton Building Corporation, by Duncan W. Blair, attorney.

Public Hearing and Consideration of amendments to the 1992 Master Plan and Zoning Ordinance as follows:

(1) consideration of adding the Eisenhower East Small Area Plan including CDD Guidelines;

(2) consideration of an amendment to the King Street/Eisenhower Avenue Metro Station Small Area Plan chapter of the 1992 Master Plan to remove the land area from that plan now covered by the Eisenhower East Small Area Plan;

(3) consideration of adoption of amended zoning maps to reflect the Eisenhower East coordinated development district (CDD); and

(4) consideration of amendments to Section 5-602 of the Alexandria Zoning Ordinance with respect to CDD #2, and a new CDD #11.

Staff: Department of Planning and Zoning, Eileen Fogarty, Director; Kimberley Fogle, Chief, Neighborhood and Community Planning.

COMMISSION ACTION: Recommend Approval 7-0

Public Hearing and Consideration of a request for a special use permit to install lighting on the pedestrian path from Holmes Run Parkway to the Beatley Bridge crossing area. Applicant: City of Alexandria, Department of Recreation, Parks and Cultural Activities, by Sandra Whitmore, Director.
COMMISSION ACTION: Deferred by unanimous consent

Public Hearing and Consideration of a request for a special use permit to operate a child care home; zoned RC/Residential. Applicant: Agnes A. Buabeng.

Public Hearing and Consideration of a request for a development special use permit amendment to construct a fence with a storage area within a conservation area; zoned R-20/Residential. Applicant: Dartmouth Place Homeowners Association, by Wallace Christner.

Public Hearing and Consideration of approval of new public street names as “Potomac Greens Drive, Townsend Road, Caledon Lane, Dent Lane, Fowke Lane, Hunter Square, and Langhorne Lane” located within the Potomac Yard Parcel A - Potomac Greens project at 2201 Jefferson Davis Highway. Staff: City of Alexandria, Department of Planning and Zoning.

Public Hearing and Consideration of a request for a development special use permit, with site plan, for construction of residential dwellings; zoned CDD-10/Coordinated Development District. Applicant: Potomac Greens Associates, LLC, by Jonathan P. Rak, attorney.

Public Hearing and Consideration of a request for a development special use permit, with site plan, for a dog park; zoned CDD-10/Coordinated Development District. Applicant: Crescent Resources, LLC, by Duncan W. Blair, attorney.

Public Hearing and Consideration of a request for a development special use permit, with site plan, for construction of retail and restaurant use buildings; zoned CDD-10/Coordinated Development District. Applicant: Potomac Greens Associates, LLC, by Jonathan P. Rak, attorney.