RESTON COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT CORPORATION

Board Meeting

October 11, 2007
Lake Anne Office Building
11484 Washington Plaza West
Reston, VA 20190

MINUTES

Board Members Present:
Kurt Pronske
Howard Green
Walt Peter
Van Foster
Rick Thompson
Bob Simon
Phil Tobey
Anne Strange

Invited Guests:
Bridget Hill, FC OCRR
Heidi Merkel, FC Planning Division
Goldie Harrison, Hunter Mill Supervisor's Office
Lee Rau, FC RHA

Observers:
Guy Rando, TAP
Mirza Kurspanic, Reston Connection

MINUTES                         

President Pronske called the meeting to order at 7:35PM. He asked if the minutes from the September 13th meeting were correct. Mr. Simon moved that the minutes be accepted, Mr. Tobey seconded and the motion passed unanimously.

Comprehensive Plan Amendment Status

Ms. Merkel reported that the consulting task order for the parking and transportation study should be released the week of October 15th and awarded two weeks later. Planning and Zoning (P&Z) hopes to have the study completed in 90 days. The County transportation office has decided to do the “existing conditions” part of the study in-house.

P&Z is currently drafting Comprehensive Plan Amendment (CPA) language that is not directly related to parking and transportation. The CPA plan text will probably be formatted differently from that provided in the BBPA draft. The content and format changes are the result of both staff review and community input.

Ms. Merkel noted that the purpose of the parking and transportation study is to provide technical input to the P&Z staff; the intent is to study implementation issues with the BBPA report. Consequently, the study will not be subject to public presentations and review.

Mr. Simon suggested that when the draft CPA is produced, it should be annotated to highlight changes from the BBPA report. Ms. Merkel responded that a cross reference would probably be created to relate the two documents and notate changes.

Mr. Rau noted that $42M for parking improvements had been included in the list of Capital Improvement Plan projects and asked about the status. No one was sure of the status (a later check of the County “Beyond the CIP” list showed that the parking facility was listed at $20M and the pedestrian circulation system at $2M, both ranked “2”)

Ms. Harrison noted that the parking and transportation study was initiated partially because of community input. She also commented that recent newspaper articles saying there are plans to tear down Cameron Crescent and build high-rises were not true. The group discussed potential approaches for better communicating the status and process.

Annual Meeting

President Pronske noted that this meeting is the Annual Meeting for the election of officers. He noted that he had previously stated that he would step down as President and confirmed his intent. He commented that he was satisfied that the revitalization program had advanced to the point that the plan amendment was in process and felt that it was an appropriate time to leave the presidency. He intends to remain involved, both as a member of the RCRC Board and in his appointive positions to CRRAG and the Revitalization Coalition G7.

Mr. Green spoke for the Board saying that Mr. Pronske had been an excellent president in re-energizing the RCRC, working with the County and coordinating the process through the economic study, focus groups, charrette, draft plan recommendations and other steps. He understood Mr. Pronske’s intent to stand down and appreciated that Mr. Pronske would remain involved the RCRC’s activities. He noted that the Board and community owed Mr. Pronske gratitude for his leadership and accomplishments.

Nominations were opened and Mr. Thompson nominated Mr. Foster for president and Mr. Pronske for vice-president; Mr. Tobey seconded the motion. Mr. Peter moved that nominations be closed and Mr. Simon seconded. The motion was passed unanimously and Messrs Foster and Pronske elected.

Mr. Tobey nominated Mr. Green to continue as treasurer and Mr. Thompson as secretary; Mr. Peter seconded. The nominations were closed and Messrs Green and Thompson elected unanimously.

Future Meetings

The next meeting will be Thursday, November 8th.

The meeting was adjourned at 9:15PM.