Documents & Links

If you are just finding out about this plan, the material below should provide a good background.  This is material we uncovered since July 23rd when many of us first learned about the project.  We are surprised how far it has advanced with little public knowledge!

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Current Fairfax County Clermont Park materials  

• Clermont Park Master Plan Revision Process homepage

  • Includes presentation, audio recording, meeting summary from July 25, 2019 public information session at Lee District Government Center​, and nearly 300 pages of comments received during the public comment period (ending Aug. 26, 2019)

• May 8, 2019 FCPA Planning and Development Committee agenda 

  • Clermont Park Draft Master Plan Amendment as a May 22, 2019 Board agenda item, with 4 attachments found on pages 47-53​

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Fairfax County reference materials  

• March 16, 2000 Clermont Park Improvement Task Force Decisions

• 2007 Board of Supervisor (BOS) Deed transfer (w/lighting restrictions)

• Aerial imagery: Encroachment of human development on Clermont Park in 1980, 1997, 2017 (from Fairfax County's JADE GIS application)

• Current County lighting ordinance language (14-904 starting on p.24) 

• Clermont Park Master Plan 1975 (historical perspective)

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Economic Studies: Park Effects on Home Values

• Neighborhood Parks and Residential Property Values in Greenville, South Carolina

• Assessing the Effect of Parks on Surrounding Property Values Using Hedonic Models and Multilevel Models 

• THE IMPACT OF PARKS AND OPEN SPACE ON PROPERTY VALUES AND THE PROPERTY TAX BASE  (See page 12)

• The Economic Impact of Pocket Parks on Residential Property values: Case study-Madison Wisconsin

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Additional references

• August 2019 Flyer / handout

• Reference map identifying houses very close to Clermont Park

• 2016 EQAC Annual Report on the Environment, Light Pollution and Visual Pollution (see glare / athletic fields) 

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