Community Corner

Letter to The Editor

Please pay attention to Master Plan Phase 2.

Next Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011 at 7 pm at theCafeteria, the Fairfax County Planning and Zoning staff will launch the second phase of the process to revise Reston’s master plan.  The first phase concerned the areas around the new transit stations and Reston Town Center.  The second phase will address rezoning of residential neighborhoods and the shopping centers. 

In Oct. 2008, the county launched the master plan revision process at a community meeting attended by about a hundred community leaders.  At that meeting county planner Heidi Merkel said that many of Reston’s 40-year-old neighborhoods were old, run down, and in need of redevelopment. 

About a year and a half ago I attended a Reston 2020 meeting when discussion turned toward the redevelopment of the older neighborhoods.  A former Fairfax County planner attending the meeting said with great authority, “The old clusters have to go.” 

About a year ago I brought the issue up with a Reston Association board member and was told, also with great authority, that the old clusters would be replaced with eight-story apartment buildings.

 These neighborhoods are your neighborhoods.  Please make sure someone from your neighborhood attends the meeting on Nov. 16.  Now is not the time to put your head in the sand. 

Please read Terry Maynard’s letter to the Reston Connection.


You can follow the master plan revision process on the RCA Reston 2020 blog:  www.Reston2020.blogspot.com.

Kathy Kaplan

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