A proposal to consolidate two adjacent parcels to allow for construction of one large single-family home at 841 Ninovan Road, S.E., received the Vienna Town Council’s approval Sept. 23.
The original single-family home on the site has been razed and the town in 2022 approved plans to construct two homes there. The applicant, Rob Fisher of Fisher Custom Homes, this year submitted plans for one single-family house on the property, and this required the lots’ consolidation.
Both parcels are zoned RS-10 and the approved change will not affect the site’s zoning, O’Brien said.
The resulting 42,495-square-foot property, which is owned by Michael Stone, has a shape that resembles a house or perhaps home plate on a baseball diamond.
Town Council member Charles Anderson worried that the setbacks on such a large property in the RS-10 zone (minimum lot size 10,000 square feet) might be insufficient for the size of house that could be built there.
“This is a little tricky,” he said. “I don’t want to be sort of incentivizing this.”
Council member Roy Baldwin had similar qualms, but like Anderson concluded that what was being proposed would not be detrimental.
“It is the appropriate solution for this very idiosyncratic lot,” Baldwin said.
The Council’s vote on the matter was 6-1, with member Sandra Allen voting nay.
