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Let’s update the vision for Franconia-Springfield!

The following is the current vision statement from the 2017 Fairfax County Comprehensive Plan.

Transform the area into a mixed use, easily accessible, and inter-connected place. Residents, employees, and visitors will have their essential needs and services proximate to one another and easily accessible by multiple means of transportation, particularly by walking and biking. Redevelopment also will serve the needs of the surrounding neighborhoods and, to a certain extent, the region.

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Share suggested changes to the current vision statement and/or share your own vision statement for the area.

Guiding Planning Principles

Listed below by category are the current Guiding Principles in the 2017 Fairfax County Comprehensive Plan. Review each category and tell us your thoughts.

 

Transportation & Connectivity Guiding Principles

  • Enhance multi-modal linkages throughout the area and to the Joe Alexander Transportation Center and other transportation nodes
  • Encourage even traffic flows through enhancements to the public transit system, incentives for carpooling, and implementation of a coordinated program of transportation demand management strategies
  • Create a usable wayfinding system, which would efficiently move people through the area
  • Maintain easy access to regional transportation systems

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What transportation and connectivity guiding principles would you change? What would you add? Share your thoughts.

 

Land Use & Development Guiding Principles

  • Provide opportunities for high density, mixed-use redevelopment, which would allow residents, employees, and visitors to work, shop, exercise, and live in relative proximity to each other
  • Preserve and protect stable, low density residential neighborhoods that surround the Franconia-Springfield Area through screening, buffering, and tapering of development at the transitional boundaries
  • Encourage revitalization through enhancing the economic competitiveness of local businesses
  • Complement revitalization efforts made by the local community

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What land use and development guiding principles would you change? What would you add? Share your thoughts below.

 

Safety & Mobility Guiding Principles

  • Identify and minimize pedestrian and vehicular conflicts by separating the pedestrians from vehicular traffic, improving traffic circulation, and developing the pedestrian realm
  • Enhance the safety and security of the area through innovative, environmental design features, such as improved lighting, safe pathways, and additional windows facing the street

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What safety and mobility guiding principles would you change? What would you add? Share your thoughts below.

 

Environment & Sustainability Guiding Principles

  • Utilize innovative design and engineering techniques to preserve, enhance, and restore the existing natural resources in the area

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Would you change this environment & sustainability guiding principle? What would you add? Share your thoughts below.

 

Identity & Heritage Guiding Principles

  • Develop a unique identity that reflects the character of the area through design consistency
  • Identify, preserve and promote awareness of heritage resources through research, survey and community involvement

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What identity & heritage guiding principles would you change? What would you add? Share your thoughts below.