Cap Reston's Population At 120,000: Proposal

RESTON, VA -- The Coalition for a Planned Reston, a group that unites a number of local advocacy organizations, held a meeting Monday night that involved a number of proposed changes for the Reston Master Plan, including a population cap of 120,000 people.

The proposal comes in the wake of Fairfax County's push to raise the density limit in Reston, which opponents argue would cause development to explode without the infrastructure in place to support it. CPR's "One Reston" proposal would call for a "Reston-wide population cap at 120,000 people, including affordable and bonus market housing," the report states.

That would still represent a doubling of the population over the next 40 years, the plan notes.

Opponents of Fairfax County's proposal to raise density limits claim that Reston's population could triple or more under the proposal. Specifically, the "One Reston" proposal claims that the density limit increase would cause the Planned Residential Community (PRC) area in Reston to jump to 115,000 alone, and the population in Reston areas outside the PRC could balloon to 100,000 as well.

The entire presentation has been posted by Reston 20/20 Committee co-chair Terry Maynard here.

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