The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors took less than 10 minutes on Tuesday (Feb. 4) to approve land-use changes allowing for a continuing-care facility along Route 7 in the Reston/Great Falls area.
The proposal by Silverstone Senior Living calls for up to 130 units — a mix of independent-living and assisted-living options — on the 22.5-acre parcel at 10819 Leesburg Pike, across from Riva Ridge Road and west of Baron Cameron Avenue.
The facility would rise three stories. More than three-quarters of the parcel would remain open space under the rezoning application approved by supervisors.
Just over 200 residents could be accommodated, with about 30 staff on site.
The final proposal had the backing of the Fairfax County Planning Commission, Hunter Mill Land Use Committee, Health Care Advisory Board and county staff.
Supervisors breezed through the action without comment, and there were no speakers during the public hearing. The action moved so fast that one supervisor who was briefly out of the room missed the vote. It passed 9-0.
When the project was recommended for approval in December by the planning commission, it already had been through extensive vetting.
“It’s a pretty straightforward application,” Hunter Mill District Planning Commission member John Carter said then.
The 22.5-acre site currently is vacant and had been zoned residential. County officials had approved a proposal in 2016 for up to 135 assisted-living and memory-care units, but that plan fell through.
The original developer ultimately sold the site to Silverstone for $12.1 million in July 2021, according to county records.
