RESTON COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT CORPORATION

Board Meeting

September 8, 2005
Lake Anne Office Building
11484 Washington Plaza West
Reston, VA 20190

MINUTES

Board Members Present:
Kurt Pronske
Van Foster
Bob Simon
Walt Peter
Martha Green
Anne Strange
Phil Tobey
Howard Green
Jim Garrett

Invited Guests:
Ayanna Brown, Fairfax County HCD
Bob Fields, Fairfax County HCD
John Payne, Fairfax County HCD
Lee Rau, Fairfax County RHA

Observers:
Rick Thompson

Approval of Minutes
The minutes for the meeting of August 11th were reviewed. Bob Simon moved that the minutes be approved ; Howard Green seconded and the motion was passed unanimously.

Report from Owner’s Group
Ms. Green reported that the owners had not met since the last meeting. The group plans to meet with developers as part of research and information gathering.

Reston Gateway Project
President Pronske reported that he had met with Milton Matthews of the Reston Association to discuss RA’s assuming maintenance responsibility should a pilot project be built. The concept will be presented to the RA Board during their meeting next week.

2006 Bond Referendum
Ms. Brown introduced Mr. Fields and Mr. Payne of HCD. Mr. Payne discussed the process that will determine how the Revitalization portion of the 2006 bond referendum would be allocated. The county will work from a list of potential projects and rank them in importance, with particular emphasis on those that would produce activity. HCD is talking with the “G7” (the group of seven revitalization areas) to see what potential high value projects might make use of the capital improvement funds.

Mr. Payne also noted that the RCRC should identify items for the capital improvement budget, not just for this bond referendum since getting projects on the priority list was key to eventually getting funding.

Mr. Payne conducted a “mini-charrette”, starting with a list of ten projects that emerged from the charrette results. The ten were:

• Parking garage
• Water feature
• Signage
• Street realignment
• Accessibility 504/ADA
• Purchase of the plaza
• Improve gateway landscape
• Improve environmental quality of Lake Anne

In response to Mr. Payne’s request to propose further possible projects, the Board suggested the following:

• Intersection improvements
• Fellowship Square access to the plaza
• Acquire water rights to Lake Anne from the golf course
• Public park space
• Pedestrian circulation study
• Street furniture
• Redevelopment guidelines
• Parking management for period of construction
• Plaza maintenance and easements

In the discussion of these items, Mr. Payne noted that funds could only be expended for public interest projects. Reston Association is considered public so its ownership makes the lake a public amenity; the parking lot would need to be controlled in some way by the county, at least for the period of construction and funding amortization. Mr. Fields noted that the county has some public/private partnerships underway under the PPEA act and that this approach might be used here.

The discussion concluded with a discussion of what projects should be eliminated. The Board agreed that the water feature and purchase of the plaza should be deleted.

The meeting adjourned at 9:05PM.