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...

Recap of Joint Forum on Reston’s Future

By RCA President Colin Mills When you’re a community leader, you want to feel that you’re doing real good for your community.  I’ve never had that feeling more strongly than last week, when we held a joint forum with Reston Association and ARCH on the draft...