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PCCPlanned Continuing Care Facility (PCC)

Fairfax County, VA · Fairfax County Zoning Ordinance

PCC provides for the development of a continuing care facility offering accommodation choices, medical care, and assistance with daily living, with full-time on-site supervision and appropriate secondary uses. Minimum district size 5 acres (modifiable by the Board). Standards are set by the approved development plan. Section 2105.7.

Development standards in PCC

Maximum FAR	Set by (4) Floor Area Ratio (a) The maximum floor area ratio is based on the land use recommendation in the Comprehensive Plan for a continuing care facility or on the land use recommendation for other uses, as modified in the table below, whichever is greater. In all cases, the gross floor area of any affordable dwelling units or workforce dwelling units constructed on-site is excluded from the maximum FAR in the table below: Table 2105.3: PCC Maximum Floor Area Ratio Comprehensive Plan Comprehensive Plan Maximum FAR Density/Intensity Land Use Recommendation for PCC District Recommendation (du/ac or FAR) ≥ 1 du/ac to ≤ 2 du/ac 0.40 > 2 du/ac to ≤ 5 du/ac 0.65 Residential use when specified in terms of > 5 du/ac to ≤ 12 du/ac 0.80 Dwelling Units Per Acre (du/ac) >12 du/ac to ≤ 30 du/ac 1.00 > 30 du/ac 1.25 Institutional, office, retail, mixed use, residential, or any other use, excluding All intensity recommendations Plan maximum plus 25 percent industrial, when specified in terms of Floor Area specified in FAR Ratio (FAR) (b) Cellar space is counted as part of the gross floor area and must be included in the FAR calculation for any rezoning to the PCC District, except when the cellar space: 1. Has a structural headroom of less than six feet, six inches and is specifically identified for mechanical equipment, an unmanned data center, or other similar telecommunication or electronic equipment; 2. Is specifically identified for storage, a commercial kitchen, laundry facilities, or other uses that are accessory to the principal uses in the building; or 3. Is specifically identified as a loading space or a loading dock used for the temporary loading and unloading of goods, including any associated travel way providing access to these spaces. — see 2105
Maximum height	Set by (2) Building Height Maximum, unless modified by the Board to better advance neighborhood compatibility: (a) 75 feet – for all developments that abut property zoned R-A, R-C, R-E, R-1, R-2, R-3, R-4, R- 5, and R-8, or properties that are planned for a residential density of eight dwelling units per acre or less. (b) 100 feet – for all other developments. — see 2105
Minimum lot size	Set by the approved development plan for this property — see 2105

Minimum lot size is set by the approved development plan for this property. This is a planned district: the ordinance does not set one figure for the whole district, and those plans differ from property to property, so no single number would be true here. The section that says the plan governs is cited on each row above. For the plan that applies to a specific property, ask Fairfax County.

Maximum FAR and Maximum height are banded in the ordinance — it depends on what you build or on the lot itself, so no single figure is true for the whole zone. The cited table is the authority; read the tier that matches your intended structure.

Read from Fairfax County Zoning Ordinance, effective through 2026-07-01. We last checked with the publisher on 2026-09-14 and found nothing newer -- a check on that date, not a promise about today.

How complete is this market? Across 239,083 parcels we answer 96.1% of the 6 questions this site is built to answer, each with a source you can check. The rest are shown as “not recorded” rather than filled in — we would rather be short than wrong. A further 13,550 properties inside the county line are zoned by an incorporated town with its own ordinance, not by the county, so this county ordinance does not govern them and they are not counted above or below — which is why we publish this market as Fairfax County (excl. Vienna and Herndon). Look one of those up and we will tell you which town governs it.

Permitted uses in PCC

ConditionalGoverned by approved development plan
This is a planned district: its permitted uses are set by the approved development plan for the parcel, not by a base-zone list (Sect. 2105).

"Conditional" means the use generally requires a public hearing or special-exception approval — a very different timeline and risk profile from a by-right permit.

This is the zone. What about the parcel?

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Sources

Fairfax County Zoning Ordinance — read the ordinance
Fairfax County — official zoning map / authority
Standards as recorded by Zonescore: Fairfax County Zoning Ordinance (enCodePlus, current)

Values are read from the Fairfax County Zoning Ordinance.

Other Fairfax County zones

C-1 C-2 C-3 C-4 C-5 C-6 C-7 C-8 I-2 I-3 I-4 I-5 I-6 I-I PDC PDH PDH-1 PDH-12 PDH-16 PDH-2 PDH-20 PDH-3 PDH-30 PDH-4 PDH-40 PDH-5 PDH-8 PRC PRM PTC R-1 R-12 R-16 R-2 R-20 R-3 R-30 R-4 R-5 R-8 R-A R-C R-E R-MHP