The Mount Vernon Council of Citizens' Associations
Comprehensive Plan APR Nominations

LRSP-2009-08:  Little Hunting Creek Pumping Station

WHEREAS, the MVCCA is participating in the Area Plan Review 2009-2010,

WHEREAS, the Long Range and Strategic Planning Committee of the MVCCA has facilitated numerous charrettes and gathered input from community stakeholders and MVCCA members,

WHEREAS, nominations for the Area Plan Review Comprehensive Plan have been formulated,

WHEREAS, the Long Range and Strategic Planning Committee has spent the past several months reviewing the current Comprehensive Plan as applicable to the Mount Vernon Magisterial District and adjoining areas and has recommended a change nomination to that Plan for the Area Plan Review 2009-2010, such nomination containing the following features:

Preserve Open Space
 in Little Hunting Creek Treatment Plant Site
Nomination Overview

Nomination Subject:  Little Hunting Creek Treatment Plant

Location:   8600 Stockton Parkway (Stockton and Londonderry)

Vision Overview:
· Revise Plan language to reflect conversion of facility from sewage treatment plant to pumping station and its continuing use by Fairfax County for that purpose.  
· Delete references to future development and density.

This 9.6 acre site lies mostly in the RPA, on the eastern shore of the main stem of Little Hunting Creek. It includes freshwater tidal wetlands.

Portions not in use by DPWES should be preserved as open space.  Consideration should be given to consolidating portions of this 9.6 acre parcel with the adjacent 1.8 acre parcel 102-3((02))A owned by the Northern Virginia Conservation Trust, which is almost entirely freshwater tidal wetlands.

Development Conditions Overview: 
· Assure preservation as open space of all portions of tract not used by DPWES.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Co-Chairs of the MVCCA are hereby directed to prepare and submit a Comprehensive Plan change nomination which incorporates the foregoing features.

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