April 8, 2026 BZA - Apr 08, 2026
meeting
Fairfax County Board of Zoning Appeals
41 min
8 agenda items
transcribed 3 days ago
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How does the Board of Zoning Appeals open and conduct its public hearing procedures?
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Let me get myself situated here. Good morning. The april eighth, two thousand twenty six meeting of the Fairfax County Board of Zoning Appeals will please come to order. Are there any members to be presented by members? If not, I'll review our procedures for those of you who have not been here before. Once your case is called, if you please step up to the front microphone and I'll ask anyone wishing to speak to that particular case, stand, raise their right hand, face the clerk um on your left to take an oath. Once that's done, the applicant will be asked to state their name and address for the record and whether or not they reaffirm the affidavit as previously submitted. The applicant will then be asked to have a seat in the front row while we get a location and report from staff.
Once we've heard the staff report, the applicant will be given up to ten minutes to give their justification for whatever it is they are seeking today. We emphasize up to ten minutes because we do have um the detailed staff reports which contain uh justification in them. But do feel free to add to that if you'd like to do so. I'll then ask if there's anyone who wishes to speak to the application. If you've not previously signed up to speak, if you could do so with the clerk again on the left. Um Each individual speaker will have up to three minutes in which to speak, but if you represent a citizen association, you'll have up to five minutes. Once you have spoken, uh you cannot come back to speak unless you're asked to do so by a member of this board.
And if there are any speakers in re um opposition, the applicant or applicant's agent will have uh five minutes rebuttal time. With that said, we can go ahead and move forward with our agenda. I don't see any, I don't believe we have anything today on our consent agenda. So we can just go forward to our first uh public hearing, which is uh the matter of Claudia C. Tremont Tremontana and First Years Learning Center LLC and SP2. two thousand twenty five Dash M V dash zero zero zero seventy two. And everyone who wants to ta uh speak on this case if you would stand. Face the clerk, raise your right hand and take an oath. Do you swear or affirm that your testimony will be the truth under penalty of the law?
I do. Hi.
And if you would state
your name and address for us. Hello, my name is Claudia Tramontana. And my current address is sixty six fourteen Winston Manor Court, Lorton, Virginia. two zero seven nine.
Um and you reaffirmed the affidavit as previously submitted? I have. Hey, great. If you just have a seat, we will come back to you once we've heard from the staff. Thank you.
Oh. Uh good morning, Madam Chair and members of the board. For the record, uh this is Adriana Santiago with the Department of Planning and Development. I'm here to present the following application requesting to permit a home daycare facility. And re and a reduction in setback requirements based on an error in building location. Um to permit a roof Eve thirty six point five feet from the front lot line. The subject property is a twenty three thousand five hundred square foot rectangular interior lot on the south side of Pohake River Drive, of Armistie Drive, northwest of Richmond Highway and southeast of Gorton Road, and the Pohick River Pine subdivision in Lorton. Across Pohick River uh drive to the north is the rear of the uh Board of Supervisors owned Lorton Fire Station number nineteen.
Behind the property, parcels C and D are wooded open space owned by the Fairfax County Park Authority. Poick Creek flows east uh to west through this area. The property is developed with a two-story single-family detached dwelling with a basement. Built in tw uh built in twenty fifteen, the home contains three thousand four hundred sixty-six square feet of gross floor area, including the garage, and an elevated rear open deck was added in twenty seventeen. The lot is primarily open lawn. The front yard includes a few deciduous trees and ornamental shrubs, while the side and rear yards are enclosed by a six foot tall white vinyl fence.
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Agenda
8 items
1
How does the Board of Zoning Appeals open and conduct its public hearing procedures?
0:58–9:28
2
What are the key details of the home‑daycare application and the staff’s recommendation?
9:28–14:28
3
Why is the decorative roof‑eave setback issue raising questions among staff and the applicant?
14:28–18:37
4
How does the Board handle public comments and objections for the daycare case?
18:37–22:45
5
What are the main features and challenges of the detached carport variance request?
22:45–27:59
6
How does staff justify approving the carport variance despite zoning restrictions?
27:59–31:52
7
What motions and votes were taken to adopt the decisions on both applications?
31:52–36:53
8
How does the meeting conclude and what items remain on the agenda?
36:53–41:36