The Fairfax County Planning Commission’s Dec. 9 meeting includes two Oak Hill cases that would turn commercial buildings near the Dulles Toll Road into homes. One would convert an extended-stay hotel on Coppermine Road into 112 apartments. The other would replace an office building on Dulles Corner Lane with 154 townhouses and stacked townhouses.
The commission’s Dec. 9 agenda, revised Nov. 6, lists both for public hearing. The meeting starts at 7:30 p.m. County staff reports were not posted as of Nov. 9.
The Sonesta ES Suites on Coppermine Road would become 112 apartments
CWP-ASR Dulles I LLC and CWP-ASR Dulles II LLC want to rezone 13700 Coppermine Road from C-8, a commercial district, to PDH-30, a planned residential district, so it can turn the 112-room Sonesta ES Suites Dulles Airport into 112 apartments. The case is RZ/FDP-2025-DR-00030.
The hotel is a set of two-story masonry buildings from 1990 on 4.4 acres. The owner’s architects say the conversion would involve almost no renovation: no new heating, cooling, windows, roofs or plumbing, and no updates to kitchens, bathrooms, flooring or paint. A majority of the apartments would be studios. The filing does not give an exact unit mix.
- Workforce homes. The draft proffers, the written conditions that become binding if the Board approves, set aside 12 percent of the apartments as workforce dwelling units, about 13 homes. A quarter would go to households at 60 percent of the area median income, a quarter at 70 percent and half at 80 percent. The owner says the county’s affordable dwelling unit ordinance does not apply because the site’s floor area ratio, about 0.39, is below the Comprehensive Plan’s recommended range.
- Parking. The site has 134 spaces, below the 146 the county requires, and the owner plans to seek a parking reduction.
- Sidewalks. The owner would try to build a sidewalk in front of the neighboring Mount Pleasant Baptist Church cemetery, if the church and the state transportation department agree. The sidewalk on its own Coppermine Road frontage would come with a future redevelopment, with a possible payment of up to $100,000 if that sidewalk cannot be approved. The owner would also add a trail link to the school property next door if Fairfax County Public Schools agrees.
- Schools. The school system’s July memo projects about 40 students. Coates Elementary is at 140 percent of capacity and projected to reach 159 percent by 2030-31. Carson Middle and Westfield High serve the site today, with the high school assignment shifting to the new Skyview High by 2030-31.
This hotel is a different case from the Hyatt House conversion on Herndon Parkway in the Town of Herndon.
Pulte would replace a 1998 office building on Dulles Corner Lane with 154 homes
Pulte Home Company wants to rezone 11.05 acres at 13880 Dulles Corner Lane from PDC to PDH-16 and replace a four-story, 157,027-square-foot office building from 1998. The case is RZ/FDP-2025-DR-00029, heard with PCA-86-C-029-12.
The Dec. 9 agenda describes 81 townhouses and 64 stacked townhouses, but Pulte’s revised plans and its Nov. 5 draft proffers show a different mix:
| Home type | Homes |
|---|---|
| Townhouses (8 at 16 feet wide, 42 at 20 feet, 18 at 22 feet) | 68 |
| Stacked townhouses (43 upper, 43 lower) | 86 |
| Total | 154 |
Every home would have three bedrooms. The stacked townhouses would reach up to 52 feet and the townhouses up to 46 feet, both four stories.
- Workforce homes. Pulte commits 18 workforce dwelling units, all for households at or below 70 percent of the area median income: 10 lower stacked units and 8 of the 16-foot townhouses.
- Parks. A 0.22-acre linear park with a playground and a 0.88-acre green beside the existing pond would be open to the public from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. Open space would cover 4.57 acres, or 41 percent of the site.
- Access and transit. Cars would enter from Dulles Corner Lane and Wasser Terrace. The site sits just outside the half-mile radius of the Innovation Center Metro station, according to the application.
- Schools. Pulte offers $14,956 per projected student plus $2,500 per home.
Watch for the staff reports around Nov. 25
County staff usually post their reports about two weeks before a hearing. The reports will show whether staff support each case and settle the Pulte unit count. The Board of Supervisors will hold its own hearings later; neither case has a Board date yet.
The East Link case for the former T-Mobile campus near Herndon Metro was also on the Dec. 9 agenda until the county moved it to Feb. 3, 2027. Our East Link guide covers that plan.
If you own near Coppermine Road or Dulles Corner and want to talk through what these cases could mean for your home, reach out.
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