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7/27/2019 RCA Resolution Opposing Draft Reston Comprehensive Plan, Version 10
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Resolution of The Board of Directors
Reston Citizens Association regarding Draft Reston Comprehensive Plan
October 28, 2013
Whereas a draft Reston Comprehensive Plan, including text regarding the Reston community’s vision
and planning principles as well as more specific planning language for the development of its Transit
Station Areas (TSAs), will soon be submitted to the County’s Planning Commission for consideration, and
Whereas the draft plan attempts to provide development guidance for transit‐oriented development
(TOD), including specified overall densities and mixes of use, around the community’s new Silver Line
Metrorail stations, and
Whereas the draft plan provides extremely limited guidance on assuring reasonable mobility throughout
the Reston community, especially by autos at gateway intersections along its principal north‐south and
east‐west
corridors
in
the
TSAs,
and
Whereas the draft plan provides no significant planning guidance for the development of parks and
recreation facilities, especially athletic fields, consistent with the County’s limited standards and
Reston’s expectations, and
Whereas the draft plan provides little guidance into the implementation of any of its plan objectives,
including phasing infrastructure improvements with development, financing necessary infrastructure, or
providing reasonable community oversight to sustain the plan’s vision, and
Whereas the language in the draft plan focuses on “flexibility” in its execution that brings the
achievement of the plans development density and mix goals as laid out in the Preferred Development
Scenario (Scenario
G)
into
serious
doubt,
We, therefore, resolve that: The Board opposes the adoption of the draft Comprehensive Plan in its current form;
The Board requests that the Task Force and the County redress the major shortcomings laid out
above; and
The Board directs its Task Force representative to vote against endorsing the current draft
Reston Comprehensive Plan text.
Approved by the RCA Board of Directors by a unanimous vote of those present at its October 28, 2013, regular board meeting.
_______________________________________
Colin Mills, President
Reston Citizens Association