News and Updates
Update on RCA’s Accessibility Committee
This post by RCA President Colin Mills was originally published on Reston Patch. Sometimes the headlines don’t tell the whole story. Since RCA has gotten so much attention on planning-related issues the last few weeks, you might think that RCA is now working on...
Accessibility Committee Recognizes Reston Hospital and South Lakes Village Center
On August 14, 2013, RCA’s Reston Accessibility Committee (RAC) presented its 2013 Universal Access Leadership Awards at the Rotary Club meeting at Hidden Creek Country Club. The Universal Access Leadership Award recognizes members of the business community who...
Open Letter to Restonians on the Danger in the Reston Master Plan Proposal
Dear Fellow Restonians, As RCA’s representative to the Reston master planning task force, I want to bring you up to date on this four-year effort that is nearing a destructive result for Restonians’ quality of life in December. RCA has been an active and positive...
RCA Criticizes Draft Task Force Plan
This post by RCA President Colin Mills was originally published on Reston Patch. If you weren’t at Tuesday night’s Master Plan Task Force meeting, you missed a show. The Task Force was discussing the latest iteration of the proposed Comprehensive Plan prepared...
RCA Statement to Task Force on Draft Comprehensive Plan
As Tuesday night's Reston Master Plan Task Force meeting, RCA representative Terry Maynard read a statement expressing RCA's objections to the current draft of the Comprehensive Plan being considered by the Task Force. Terry's statement is reproduced below. To...
Traffic Jam Ahead: Level of Service Explained
This post by RCA President Colin Mills was originally published in Reston Patch. Last week’s post about office space per worker and its implications for Reston’s planning received a very favorable response. I was happy to take a complex subject and make it...
Office Space and Reston’s Planning
This post by RCA President Colin Mills was originally published in Reston Patch. At last night’s Reston Master Plan Task Force meeting, we learned about the latest iteration of the Comprehensive Plan revisions proposed by County staff. Among the items discussed...
Recap of Understanding Urbanization Forum, July 22
On July 22, Reston Association and Supervisor Hudgins co-sponsored a forum on urban design and creating walkable communities. In case you missed it, an overview prepared by RCA Board member Tammi Petrine and Restonian Doug Pew is below. Introduction of symposium...
Minutes from June 24 RCA Board Meeting
Location: Reston Community Center, Hunters Woods Attendees: C.J. Basik, Sridhar Ganesan. Diane Lewis, Colin Mills, Terry Maynard, Tammi Petrine, Gary Walker, Gary Lee Thomas, Dick Rogers Visitor: Mike Collins (former RA North Point Board member and currently an...
RCA and the Reston Areawide Comprehensive Planning Process
RCA’s representatives to the Reston Task Force (RTF), Terry Maynard (primary) and Dick Rogers (alternative), have been working hard to represent Restonians’ views as the County’s planning staff presents proposed language to the task force. After each presentation of a...