Car Wash to be Voted on again 2 October 2017

Lee District Land Use Committee will vote to allow construction at Manchester Lakes Festival Plaza. The White Horse Car Wash which has been trying to build at this location since 2014 was voted down last year, but is once again being considered. If approved the car wash will be built in the rear parking lot of the shopping center across from the Cavalry Road Baptist Church and next to the Le Petite Academy day care center, where the new traffic signal was just installed to support this project. Charles Arrington Drive will be the main route of entry and exit which is estimated to add 300 trips per day to this narrow two lane residential road. Neither Fairfax County, nor Virginia Department of Transportation have planned any improvements or repairs to the deteriorating road for the next 5 years. The additional traffic will interfere with community access to the only entrance to Manchester Lakes Park, residential entry to their communities, and reduce the already limited street parking. The vote is needed as the car wash is an industrial use being introduced into a location zoned for retail use. Commercial development for this area according to the approved 2017 Community Master Plan is to be directed toward South Van Dorn Street, and Kingstowne Blvd. The Master Plan explains that the Manchester Lakes community must be delicately managed in order to not disrupt the residential character.

Contact Jeffrey C. McKay, Lee District Supervisor, James T. Migliaccio, Lee District Planning Commissioner, and Ed Joseph, Chairman Lee District Land Use Advisory Committee. You can reach them at 703-971-6262, leedist@fairfaxcounty.gov or write to them. Whether you are a property owner or lease come to the Lee District Government Center, 6121 Franconia Road Alexandria, VA 22310 for the Land Use Committee final vote Monday, October 2, 2017 7 PM.

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