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[email protected] Townhouses Proposed for Davies Property “But if a storm ex- Council concerned ceeds the 10-year, [the resulting wa- about density, visitor ter flow] has to be able to travel parking and green without affecting the property own- space. ers.” “But climate By Bonnie Hobbs change is result- The Connection ing in a greater frequency of more he Davies property is 2.69 acres intense storms,” between Chain Bridge Road said Mayor David Tand University Drive in the City Meyer. “Are we ac- of Fairfax. And in May 2016, counting for Paradigm Development Corp. proposed re- this?” Reassuring placed the existing house there with 315 him, Summers re- apartments in a six-story building. plied that the “al- After review by City Council, City staff and gorithms and sta- the public – which decried the high density tistical data are and tall building – the plan was scaled back updated every to 258 apartments and was later withdrawn year, based on altogether.