October 25, 2017
Fred Selden, director of the Fairfax County Department of Planning, told the crowd that the late Robert Simon Jr., a New York real estate developer who founded Reston, would have been a proponent of the amendment. “One of the biggest proponents of [increased density] was Robert Simon himself, who said that the village centers really lacked a sense of cohesion. He thought that Lake Anne was really the only village center that tried to function and emulated kind of what he wanted to have happen at the village centers.”
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Room of Restonians: 'We Don’t Want This'
The Fairfax County Department of Planning and Zoning-proposed amendment would alter the zoning regulations by changing the density cap in Reston for areas that are zoned Planned Residential Community (PRC) District. Restonians are trying their best to stop it in its tracks.
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