D-Day: County Supervisors Approve Bollard-Intensive Reston Master Plan For Real, Transit-Oriented 96-Story Hooters Now Inevitable

The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors has now officially approved changes to the Reston Comprehensive Plan, the fruit of four years of work by the Reston Master Plan Task Force With an Unpronounceable Acronym (¶) that was given a D by the Reston Citizens Association. The world may be run by C students, but its planned communities are apparently guided by the projects that brought their GPAs down to solid Ds.

(Insert obligatory Hooters joke here.)

Give us some good blockquote, BFFs from Reston Now:

The plan allows for a business/residential ratio of 50/50 within a quarter-mile of the Metro stations. The area from one-quarter to one-half mile would be slightly lower density and 75 percent residential.

The plan allows for the construction of 22,000 new residential units, more than 8 million square feet of new office space, 2 million square feet of new hotel space and 700,000 square feet of additional retail. Reston could see more than 30,000 new residents with the development.

The areas beyond a half-mile from transit would be largely unchanged, though they will be addressed by the task force in the future

Hunter Mill Supervisor Cathy Hudgins said at the supervisors’ hearing Tuesday that the task force has “worked smartly, organizing committees, bringing in talent and land use experts.”

Hudgins voted for the comprehensive plan, but two county supervisors did not -- Pat Herrity and Michael Frey, who said they were concerned that there isn't money to fund all the needed transportation needs that will come with all that bollardy goodness, as well as how all the new development will mesh with the rest of the county. Silly rabbits, the board has pledged to "develop an inclusive process to prepare a funding plan for transportation improvements!" Those bridges across the Toll Road and sidewalks and underpasses and whatnot are all as good as built.

Now that the plan has been approved, the folks who voted for it must be held accountable for ensuring that their "process" actually results in "funding" so we don't wind up in perpetual "gridlock," the end.