Yet Another Mixed-Use Development - Kincora

Following-up on the discussion of rushed development comes a great analysis of one of those appplications: Kincora. Quite frankly, there isn't much to add beyond what Lansdowne...And Out in the Open has already written.

Kincora is a project by NA Dulles real Estate Investor LLC of Great Falls, VA. The site of this project is located at the southwestern section of the area where Route 28 meets Route 7 (in layman’s terms, if you’re headed towards Dulles Town Center from Lansdowne, it’s just before you get to Route 28 on the right). The parcel is 424 acres, currently zoned as PD-IP (Planned Devlopment – Industrial Park), planned for Keynote Employment use. The property owner wishes to have the parcels rezoned to an office park/town center hybrid. This rezoning would propose almost 5 million square feet of office, hotel, and commercial, and build 1,376 residential multi-family units.

There are numerous problems with this rezoning, starting with the fact that the applicant is proposing 25 zoning ordinance amendments in order to develop the property as proposed. This seems like an inordinate amount of amendments necessary for a project; in fact, zoning administration noted this in the Planning Commission's staff report prepared for this project; a project that PC staff recommended the county reject.
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The Planning Commission approved this project in September, and as part of the Board of Supervisors accelerated hearing process, Kincora will be up for approval on November 14, which just happens to coincide with the night of Lansdowne’s annual HOA meeting. If this project is outrageous to you, please contact Supervisor Lori Waters (mailto:lori.waters@loudoun.gov) and make your opinions known. - Rabble Rouser, Lansdowne...and Out in the Open

Luckily, we will also have an opportunity express our opinions definitively next Tuesday. It will be very interesting to discover whether Lori Waters supports this development while considering opposition to the Good Shepherd Alliance facility in Ashburn.