Community Update from CPR, February 16, 2018

The following is a re-post from the Coalition for a Planned Reston website.

Representatives of the Coalition for a Planned Reston (CPR) and the Reston Association (RA) met on Tuesday, February 13, with Supervisor Hudgins and Fairfax County government staffers to review CPR’s proposed amendments of the Reston Master Plan. Our proposal would eliminate the perceived need to raise Reston’s zoning density from 13 to 16 persons per acre. After our meeting, however, the County agreed only to delay by one month their meeting schedule for changing zoning density.

CPR believes a temporary delay does not provide adequate opportunity for the community’s recommendations to be considered. While the County often speaks about community involvement, this is a chance for them to actively seek it.

• CPR calls upon the Board of Supervisors (BOS) not to hold any vote on calendaring or enacting the Reston zoning density increase until the views of the community have been fully considered and addressed.
• CPR also calls for further meetings with County staffers to review and discuss in detail our proposed amendments to the Master Plan, particularly since those changes were developed with direct input from you, the Reston community.
• Finally, we continue to ask for a written response to RA’s unanswered letter of November 17, 2017, outlining its views on potential changes to the Reston Master Plan.­

In the meantime, our next steps are as follows:

1. CPR representatives will attend the Fairfax Board’s February 20 meeting in order to personally raise the community’s concerns with the entire Board of Supervisors during the public comment portion of the meeting.
2. In addition, we urge you, as members of our community, to contact Supervisor Hudgins and other Supervisors to support a delay in any change to Reston zoning density. We will post suggested language here on the CPR website.
3. We encourage interested Reston residents to attend any or all of the County meetings currently scheduled to address the change in Reston zoning. The new schedule is:

March 20, 2018– Board of Supervisors Authorization Item

May 10, 2018– Planning Commission Public Hearing

June 5, 2018– Board of Supervisors Public Hearing

Thank you.

NOTE FROM RESTON 20/20:  County staff did not agree, even in principle, to the value of any of the proposals, and did not discuss many of them.