May 20, 2026 BZA - May 20, 2026

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Fairfax County Board of Zoning Appeals 3h 18m 8 agenda items transcribed 1 day ago official recording ↗

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What procedural steps are outlined at the start of the hearing?

Gerardo Perez 1:10

One more.

Chairman Day 1:12

Good morning. The May twentieth, two thousand twenty six meeting of the Fairfax County Board of Zoning Appeals will please come to order. Are there any matters to be presented by members? If not, I'll review our procedures for those of you who've not been here before. Once your case is called, please step up front to the microphone and I'll ask um that anyone who wishes to speak to that case to stand raise their right hand and face the clerk on your left 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 um BS to have a seat in the front row. Or while we get the location and a report from staff.

Chairman Day 2:04

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 detailed staff reports which do contain the initial justification in them. But please 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. Now if you've not already signed up uh to speak, please do so uh with the clerks at the clerk's desk on your left. Each individual speaker will have up to three minutes in which to uh speak. If you represent a citizens association, you'll have up to five minutes. If we have speakers in opposition, the applicant or the applicant's agent will be given up to five minutes of rebuttal time.

Chairman Day 2:56

Once you've spoken, you cannot do so you cannot come back and speak unless asked to do so by a member of this board. With that said, we can um get started with our consent agenda before the public hearing portion.

What items are on the consent agenda and how are they processed?

Chairman Day 3:14

uh today. We have only one matter on our consent agenda. Has everyone reviewed that? And do we have uh comments or If not, we can go ahead and uh we'll move that Item It's a a deferral request of Andrew Bahati and SP two thousand twenty five M V Dash zero zero one twenty um being re uh deferred to July twenty ninth.

What is the applicant’s request for the Kav Sari detached garage and how is it presented?

Chairman Day 3:46

two thousand twenty six and without objection we'll move that um as approved. So the first matter we have today for public hearing is Kav Sari and SP two thousand twenty three dash MV-000 fifty seven. And if everyone um On this matter. Would please stand, raise your right hand, face the clerk. Take an oath.

Vice Chair Ballow 4:17

Do you

Peter Bisanti 4:18

actually maybe get out of the point?

Kav Sari 4:21

Good morning, members of the chair.

Vice Chair Ballow 4:25

Do you swear or affirm that your testimony will be the truth under penalty of the law?

Chairman Day 4:30

I do. Great. And if you would then state your name and address for us.

Kav Sari 4:35

Cave Sari, eighty nine twenty six, Calsa Court, Lordon, Virginia, two two zero seven nine.

Chairman Day 4:39

And you reaffirm the affidavit that was included. Yes, yes,

Kav Sari 4:43

ma'am.

Chairman Day 4:44

Great. Thank you, Mr. Sari. Just have a seat in the front row. We'll uh We'll hear from staff.

Kevin McMahon 4:50

Thank you, Madam Chair. My name's Kevin McMahon. I'm a planner with the Department of Planning and Development. This applicant requests permission to allow a detached two story accessory garage to remain in the front yard, twenty eight point eight feet from the front lot line and seventeen point eight feet from the east side lot line. The property is zoned R one and is an irregularly shaped lot located just west of Hoose Road, north of Lorton Road and south of Silverbrook Road in Lorton. The property is developed with a two story dwelling with four thousand five hundred and twenty three square feet of gross floor area, including a basement. It was constructed in two thousand and eighteen. It's left in the photo.

Kevin McMahon 5:37

And the approximately f fifteen hundred square foot two story garage that is the subject of the application is located in the northeast corner. Access is provided from Culsa Court from the south via an asphalt driveway, pursuant to an easement granted by the Park Authority. Near the property's southeast front corner, the driveway splits with a 40-foot extension leading to the northwest to the house and a separate one hundred and twenty foot foot extension leading to the garage.