Flashbacks:
The RNGC Caddyshackpocalypse
Bollards!
With the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors public hearing on the Comstock Wiehle Metro development this afternoon -- unless it's been postponed, as we've heard it may have been, even though the hearing is still on today's agenda -- we've gotten a first look at Comstock's revised agreement to limit automotive access to the windswept, light-free canyon what it's calling the "Civic Plaza."
That sound you just heard was our hearts breaking a little.
Meanwhile, while all this is going on, the Reston Master Plan Task Force With the Ridiculous Acronymn is meeting again tonight, the end.
Update: The public hearing was indeed postponed, until 4:30 pm on May 25th. Rob Whitfield of the Dulles Corridor Users Group has a theory for the delay.
Um, interesting. I'll have to read through this.
ReplyDeleteOne question though. Am I a complete idiot? I could have sworn that this was all supposed to be on the SOUTH side of the toll road, not the north. Was I under a misconception all along? Do we know if there will be any access to the metro on the south side or will South Restonites like myself who will walk to the metro need to walk all the way to Sunset Hills and then backtrack south to the track?
I have seen a drawing with a pedestrian overpass from the off-ramp area south of the Dulles Toll Road.
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ReplyDeleteThe Metro will be accessible from both north and south by a walkway. Comstock is just first becuz it's building over the County's parking garage that must be built by Metro opening (2013). At this point, there are no specific proposals for additional development on the south side of the Metro station...but stay tuned!
Check out Page 127 of the document - it's Ronald Reagan's Shining City on The Hill.
ReplyDeleteOr Page 140 - it's the warp core of the Enterprise-D.
The only designs that aren't complete visual garbage are...the garbage cans!
ReplyDeleteWith all due respect to the architectural snobs in Reston, can someone please point out to me what "world-class architecture" currently exists here in our Mauve Candyland? Macaroni Grill? Northpoint Village Center? Compare Foods? Don't say Lake Anne, either.
ReplyDeleteCheck out Hickory Cluster.
ReplyDeleteCool!!
ReplyDeleteCheck out page 80 of the PDF -- that's me on the left.
Examples of world-class architecture in Reston?
ReplyDeleteEasy, BiCO...Charter Oak!
Now you're just being ornery, BiCO. Of course, Macaroni Grill isn't an example of World Class Architecture.
ReplyDeleteBut La Madeline would be.
I like how they show everyone in sunlight even though in their own document they talk of shadow 9 months of the year and artificial light during the day. I especially like how they mined pictures of "potential" designs to add to their proposal . . .of course window dressing doesn't do anything for the increased traffic specifically due to this development and how we will manage it.
ReplyDeleteDon't we already have a live example of how this is going to look like? Don't the four tall office buildings adjoining the west end of the Plaza America shopping center enclose a separate little "plaza" in a shadow-well that is about the same size as what is being proposed here? Of course, whenever I walk past there on my way to Whole Foods, that plaza is quite dead - except at 5 p.m., when all the office workers stream out in their cars.
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