RESTON COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT CORPORATION

Board Meeting

Apr. 13, 2006
Lake Anne Office Building
11484 Washington Plaza West
Reston, VA 20190

MINUTES

Board Members Present:
Kurt Pronske
Howard Green
Anne Strange
Milton Matthews
Rick Thompson

Invited Guests:
Ayanna Brown Fairfax County HCD
Goldie Harrison Supervisor Hudgins Office
Lee Rau Fairfax County RHA

Observers:
Jason Hartke The Reston Connection
John Marcario The Reston Times
Nabil Faltas
John Lovaas

President Pronske called the meeting to order at 7:35PM and invited public comments. There were none.

Approval of the March 9th Minutes
Ms. Strange moved and Mr. Green seconded a motion that the minutes of the March 9th meeting be approved. The motion passed unanimously.

Charrette Report
President Pronske reported that the group consisting of Mr. Simon, Mr. Thompson and himself that was apppointed at the last meeting to review the draft of the final Charrette report had do so and ask Mr. Thompson to comment on the review. Mr. Thompson characaterized the report as being consistent with the County’s previous comments about the report that had been made by Mr. Fields at the Feb 9th meeting. Specifically, it was stated that the report needed to be revised to correct a variety of format problems and certain misstatement of fact. Mr. Thompson further noted that the report was primarily an amplification of the report that had been post on the Revitalizaiton website for some time and that was still in a Powerpoint presentation format. He stated that the RCRC group, in its comments back to the County, commented only on format problems and factual inaccuracies in the report and not on its findings and basic content.

Discussion of the group centered on the value of the report. Ms Harrison commented that she thought that the Charrette process did capture community consensus which was reflected by the report. Mr Green suggested that the extended process to date was inconsistent with the opportunity costs for developers. Mr. Pronske circulatd a Charrette report produced for the Bailey’s Cross Roads district noting its more formal written presentation style with Management Summary and Next Step content. He noted that the of $5B cited for the 7 revitalization districts that, to date, the Lake Anne district share was zero. The consensus of the discussion was that the revitalization process needed to be expedited.

Design Guidelines Project
Mr. Pronske stated that, as reported to him by Cathy Hudgins, an RFP for the Design Guidelines Project was due to be released in the coming week. The project has been conceived as a two phase effort, the second of which would be overlapped by the planning process. Ms. Harrison stated the project would be designed to secure ideas and principles from the district’s stakeholders and the outcome would allow the Revitalization process to proceed with and out of plan amendment. The envisioned process would include the input from a Technical Advisory Panel and would include discussion with community stakeholders.

County Activity on Crescent Property
Lee Rau stated that no immediate changes are occurring as a part of the property’s transition noting that County will be using the services of a management company and that is conceivable that no changes would occur until the planning process for the Lake Anne district is completed

Adjournment
President Pronske adjourned the meeting at 8:55 PM.