Virginia’s Building Code: Now More Accessible

by RCA President Colin Mills RCA is a locally-focused organization.  Our primary goal, as our name suggests, is to improve the quality of life for the citizens of Reston.  As a result, our projects are usually Reston-specific.  Every once in a while,...

Searching for RCA’s Citizen of the Year

by RCA President Colin Mills Where has this year gone?  I look at the calendar and see that it’s November, and yet it feels like 2013 just got started.  The sands have been flowing through the hourglass faster than usual this year. One reason for that, I...

Small Apartments, Big Problems?

by RCA President Colin Mills Residential Studios.  It sounds like a movie company, doesn’t it?  Actually, it’s an idea under consideration to relieve the affordable housing crunch in Fairfax County.  As you may know, the idea has stirred up a lot of...

A Tough Night for Reston

by RCA President Colin Mills Last night, four years of work on the Reston Master Plan Task Force came to a frustrating and disappointing conclusion.  The Task Force voted to send the new Comprehensive Plan to the Planning Commission, starting it down the road to...