Reston Association to Discuss 'Alarmingly Brisk' Development Activity

RESTON, VA — It's no secret that Reston has experienced an explosion in development in the last three years or so, and this reality is causing headaches for the Reston Association that the Board of Directors is planning to address at their monthly meeting Thursday night.

An agenda item for the Dec. 15 meeting will address "land use expectations regarding new development in Reston," and the presenter will be John McBride of Odin Feldman Pittleman, a law firm that represents the Reston Association.

"Land development activity in Reston over the past three years has continued at an alarmingly brisk pace," the agenda item summary states. "There are currently more than one dozen major land use applications under review by Fairfax County in Reston, with five being filed within the last month. It is difficult for Reston Association staff, committees and members to keep up this enormous pace, if we continue to only react individually to each application."

The association hopes that through a series of resolutions designed to better address these applications in a proactive manner, it will be able to provide "meaningful comment" to the development community.

"The intent is to: (i) reduce the community's review and comment timeframe for individual applications: and, (2) to reduce the time and resources expended by the community to make the same comments on each application," the summary adds.

The Board of Directors will meet at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 15. Community members may attend and contribute comments and ideas.

The meeting materials can be found here, with the item in question on page 49.

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