News Coverage of Reston Town Center Committee Report Presentation

The Fairfax Times, in an article titled, "Greater density, urban growth eyed for Reston" by Holly Hobbs,  reports the following on Tuesday night's Town Center Committee presentation:

With exponential growth expected in Reston with the extension of Metrorail, a community ad-hoc committee is coming up with a plan that aims to snare appropriate development at Reston Town Center.
"[For the] overall vision - think urban," said ad-hoc committee member Robert Goudie, a Town Center resident, during a Reston Master Plan Committee meeting Tuesday night. "We've got to get urban. We've got to get into that mindset."
Goudie, who serves on a Town Center subcommittee to the Reston Master Plan Committee, said county officials should look at equal residential and commercial density at the Town Center. The county is planning to revisit zoning in the Reston area because of Metrorail's arrival by 2016, and created the community-led committee to gather public recommendations.
Residential growth alone in the Reston-Dulles corridor is expected to double during the next 50 years, according to a study by George Mason University. As many as 26,000 new jobs could come to Town Center by 2050 as a result of Metrorail expansion. . . .

Reston Patch had this to day about the presentation in an article by Karen Goff entitled "Reston Town Center Committee Sees Dense Urban Core":

The Town Center Committee of the Reston Master Plan Special Study Task Force envisions the Reston Town Center area of the near future as a dense, urban core with as many offices as residences.
The committee's recommendations have been outlined in a 39-page final report that will be taken into consideration as the Master Plan Task Force and Fairfax County look toward develpment on Reston Parkway when Metrorail opens its Reston North station sometime after 2013.

And, of course, the Restonian has his own humorous take on the report in a post "The Reston Town Center of the Future: Bigger and Better -- or at Least More Dense "

The hott mess pictured above illustrates the final recommendations of the Reston Town Center Committee of the Reston Master Plan Task Force We Won't Bother Attempting to Acronym Any More (RMPTFWWBAAAM). Like the Wiehle Avenue subcommittee, the group was tasked with providing a comprehensive vision for the area to reflect the coming of Metro, and their vision isn't an altogether bad one -- extending the Fake Downtown, creating a better mix of residential and commercial space, and ensuring open space throughout the area.