Comments on: The Impending Arlingtonization of North Shore Drive: A Precursor to Reston At-Large? http://www.goreston.com/reston-news/the-impending-arlingtonization-of-north-shore-drive-a-precursor-to-reston-at-large Reston Virginia’s Community Blog Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:55:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Kathy Kaplan http://www.goreston.com/reston-news/the-impending-arlingtonization-of-north-shore-drive-a-precursor-to-reston-at-large/comment-page-1#comment-82 Kathy Kaplan Sun, 10 Jan 2010 03:41:09 +0000 http://www.goreston.com/?p=409#comment-82 The development plans for Fairway Apts are not finalized. The plan must go before the Design Review Board again January 19. The DRB has absolute authority over any development proposals on land that is part of the Reston deed. JBGs plan will go again before Reston Association's Planning and Zoning Committee February 1st before it goes to the Planning Commission in March. Mr. Laure, you might find it interesting to watch the Planning Commission in action. Their hearings are televised. I think it's Channel 18, if I remember correctly. The Planning Commissioners are some very testy, difficult characters from what I have seen and do seem to enjoy putting the attorneys of developers through their paces. Getting Fairway Apts approved could take a very long time considering just the traffic implications alone. I think it's rather backwards to think that people will come here in hordes without jobs. People will only come here for jobs. You might have noticed that ALL the commercial buildings in Reston have very large FOR LEASE signs in front of them. That's because many, many offices are empty and were empty before the stock market crash. The projected population study that states the Washington area will grow by two million people needs to be evaluated very carefully. I do not believe it to be accurate. I think it is based on some very peculiar suppositions. Just exactly where will all the money come from for all the jobs those two million people will need? From the federal government? From the state government? From the county? One of the things that makes Reston a delightful place to live is the fact that were are sheltered by our trees. When half of the tree cover is cut down to make way for infill development of our neighborhoods which will certainly be with mixed-use high-rises that tower over our trees, the character of Reston we have come to love will be obliterated. This is "hip?" Tuesday night is the next Task Force meeting. DPZs Fred Selden will present material on the current comprehensive plan. Perhaps the county will finally present us with the existing conditions report. Please attend. Thursday night ARCH, the Alliance of Reston Clusters and Homeowners, will present the draft of an Issues Bulletin concerning the Master Plan. That will be at the Hunters Woods Community Center at 7 pm. Please attend. I do hope you read Terry Maynard's posting above yours. The expanded lanes to increase carrying capacity of the Dulles Toll Road to serve the density proposed at Tysons Corner will cut a wide swath out of Wolf Trap. This is "hip?" The development plans for Fairway Apts are not finalized. The plan must go before the Design Review Board again January 19. The DRB has absolute authority over any development proposals on land that is part of the Reston deed. JBGs plan will go again before Reston Association’s Planning and Zoning Committee February 1st before it goes to the Planning Commission in March.

Mr. Laure, you might find it interesting to watch the Planning Commission in action. Their hearings are televised. I think it’s Channel 18, if I remember correctly. The Planning Commissioners are some very testy, difficult characters from what I have seen and do seem to enjoy putting the attorneys of developers through their paces. Getting Fairway Apts approved could take a very long time considering just the traffic implications alone.

I think it’s rather backwards to think that people will come here in hordes without jobs. People will only come here for jobs. You might have noticed that ALL the commercial buildings in Reston have very large FOR LEASE signs in front of them. That’s because many, many offices are empty and were empty before the stock market crash.

The projected population study that states the Washington area will grow by two million people needs to be evaluated very carefully. I do not believe it to be accurate. I think it is based on some very peculiar suppositions. Just exactly where will all the money come from for all the jobs those two million people will need? From the federal government? From the state government? From the county?

One of the things that makes Reston a delightful place to live is the fact that were are sheltered by our trees. When half of the tree cover is cut down to make way for infill development of our neighborhoods which will certainly be with mixed-use high-rises that tower over our trees, the character of Reston we have come to love will be obliterated. This is “hip?”

Tuesday night is the next Task Force meeting. DPZs Fred Selden will present material on the current comprehensive plan. Perhaps the county will finally present us with the existing conditions report. Please attend.

Thursday night ARCH, the Alliance of Reston Clusters and Homeowners, will present the draft of an Issues Bulletin concerning the Master Plan. That will be at the Hunters Woods Community Center at 7 pm. Please attend.

I do hope you read Terry Maynard’s posting above yours. The expanded lanes to increase carrying capacity of the Dulles Toll Road to serve the density proposed at Tysons Corner will cut a wide swath out of Wolf Trap. This is “hip?”

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