Fairfax County Contests Proposed Capital Developments On Fort Belvoir

The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors will likely send a letter next week to the National Capital Planning Commission asking for construction to stop on $1.35 billion worth of capital projects at Fort Belvoir, according to the Washington Business Journal.

The NCRC, the planning agency for the federal government, will vote on the 2012-2017 capital improvement program next month. Nineteen of the 22 projects slated for Fairfax County are at Fort Belvoir.  

The projects include the $360 million Army Contracting Command, the $108 million Defense Energy Support Center and the $304 million Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility. 

According to the Journal: "Many of the listed projects are very large in scope and will be major traffic generators that have significant impacts on the local road network," the letter says. "With the impending completion of the BRAC relocations to Fort Belvoir’s main post, Mark Center and former Fort Belvoir Engineer Proving Ground, the traffic impacts are still not fully known." 

The Board is asking that construction stop until the "cumulative impacts of current and future development" is known.