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Reston groups fight to protect golf course
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Reston National Golf Course
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Date: August 31, 2012 06:44AM
Reston groups fight to protect golf course
Upcoming zoning decision could have ramifications on future development
by Kali Schumitz Staff writer
http://www.fairfaxtimes.com/article/20120830/NEWS/708309742/-1/reston-groups-fight-to-protect-golf-course&template=fairfaxTimes
The mere suggestion of redeveloping Reston’s only public golf course — one of two courses within its borders — has community organizations arming themselves for a legal battle.
The owners of the Reston National Golf Course are appealing a Fairfax County zoning administrator’s ruling that stated that the golf course cannot be redeveloped without going through a rezoning process.
The owners believe the course could be redeveloped as a residential community under its current zoning.
The case will go before the Board of Zoning Appeals in October.
Already, several Reston organizations are preparing to do what they can to support the position of county staff. These groups say that, if the zoning administrator’s ruling is overturned, it will undermine the vision on which the planned community was built.
“We are not anti-development, but when the threat of redevelopment changes the entire culture of the reason that people moved here, that destroys the community,” said John Pinkman, executive director of the group, Rescue Reston, which is opposes overturning the administrator’s ruling.
Pinkman, who lives in one of the communities adjacent to the golf course, and some of his neighbors, hastily formed Rescue Reston this month after learning about the zoning case. The group is incorporated, with a board of directors and an active website and social media pages.
Rescue Reston has started a legal fund to hire a land-use attorney to help represent the community’s interests and, according to Pinkman, have signed up hundreds of Restonians on its email list.
Pinkman said the idea of redeveloping the golf course and losing that open space has generated such a visceral reaction because it would overturn the whole idea of Reston, which the people who live there bought into.
“As the town matured, it matured with a concept … an implied guarantee that if you buy here, your lifestyle will remain,” he said. “If, after 50 years, someone can come in and say that’s not true … that changes the whole nature of the town.”
Frank McDermott, a land-use attorney representing the golf course owners in the zoning hearing, said that, even if the board decides the case in their favor, nothing will change on the golf course.
It is not a rezoning case or a development proposal, he said.
“It is merely an appeal to confirm the property rights that we believe we have,” McDermott said. “Nothing will change by virtue of it.”
Reston’s two more established civic groups — the Reston Association, which is the homeowners association-like body that manages the community, and the Reston Citizens Association — also have come out in opposition to developing the golf course.
“We’re concerned not just about this development but what it could potentially mean for the future,” RCA President Colin Mills said. “It’s the larger principle about what kind of community we want to be.”
The RCA passed a resolution formally stating the civic group’s opposition to redevelopment at the golf course.
In an Aug. 22 letter to homeowners, the Reston Association also stated that it intends to fight any attempts to redevelop the golf course.
Mills said the RCA is planning to work with the other Reston organizations leading up to the Oct. 24 hearing.
“We’re trying to make sure that we can present as united a front as possible going into the [zoning] hearing,” he said.
Upcoming zoning decision could have ramifications on future development
by Kali Schumitz Staff writer
http://www.fairfaxtimes.com/article/20120830/NEWS/708309742/-1/reston-groups-fight-to-protect-golf-course&template=fairfaxTimes
The mere suggestion of redeveloping Reston’s only public golf course — one of two courses within its borders — has community organizations arming themselves for a legal battle.
The owners of the Reston National Golf Course are appealing a Fairfax County zoning administrator’s ruling that stated that the golf course cannot be redeveloped without going through a rezoning process.
The owners believe the course could be redeveloped as a residential community under its current zoning.
The case will go before the Board of Zoning Appeals in October.
Already, several Reston organizations are preparing to do what they can to support the position of county staff. These groups say that, if the zoning administrator’s ruling is overturned, it will undermine the vision on which the planned community was built.
“We are not anti-development, but when the threat of redevelopment changes the entire culture of the reason that people moved here, that destroys the community,” said John Pinkman, executive director of the group, Rescue Reston, which is opposes overturning the administrator’s ruling.
Pinkman, who lives in one of the communities adjacent to the golf course, and some of his neighbors, hastily formed Rescue Reston this month after learning about the zoning case. The group is incorporated, with a board of directors and an active website and social media pages.
Rescue Reston has started a legal fund to hire a land-use attorney to help represent the community’s interests and, according to Pinkman, have signed up hundreds of Restonians on its email list.
Pinkman said the idea of redeveloping the golf course and losing that open space has generated such a visceral reaction because it would overturn the whole idea of Reston, which the people who live there bought into.
“As the town matured, it matured with a concept … an implied guarantee that if you buy here, your lifestyle will remain,” he said. “If, after 50 years, someone can come in and say that’s not true … that changes the whole nature of the town.”
Frank McDermott, a land-use attorney representing the golf course owners in the zoning hearing, said that, even if the board decides the case in their favor, nothing will change on the golf course.
It is not a rezoning case or a development proposal, he said.
“It is merely an appeal to confirm the property rights that we believe we have,” McDermott said. “Nothing will change by virtue of it.”
Reston’s two more established civic groups — the Reston Association, which is the homeowners association-like body that manages the community, and the Reston Citizens Association — also have come out in opposition to developing the golf course.
“We’re concerned not just about this development but what it could potentially mean for the future,” RCA President Colin Mills said. “It’s the larger principle about what kind of community we want to be.”
The RCA passed a resolution formally stating the civic group’s opposition to redevelopment at the golf course.
In an Aug. 22 letter to homeowners, the Reston Association also stated that it intends to fight any attempts to redevelop the golf course.
Mills said the RCA is planning to work with the other Reston organizations leading up to the Oct. 24 hearing.
“We’re trying to make sure that we can present as united a front as possible going into the [zoning] hearing,” he said.
Re: Reston groups fight to protect golf course
Posted by:
Judge McTavish
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Date: August 31, 2012 07:41AM
Reston National? Jeez...plow up that goat track already! What a shithole...
Re: Reston groups fight to protect golf course
Posted by:
Al Czervik
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Date: August 31, 2012 09:05AM
I tell ya, golf courses and cemeteries are the biggest wastes of prime real estate
Re: Reston groups fight to protect golf course
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Two Cents
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Date: August 31, 2012 11:21AM
Given that location, I'm surprised there haven't been more reports of robberies and homicides on the greens.
Re: Reston groups fight to protect golf course
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Reston Riches
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Date: August 31, 2012 12:06PM
Reston National has been around for years. I doubt anybody in Reston is going let the course go. There are a lot of weathly people in Reston that will not let that happen.
Re: Reston groups fight to protect golf course
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Reston National Golf Course
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Date: August 31, 2012 12:09PM
The Scorecard!
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Re: Reston groups fight to protect golf course
Posted by:
Troll.Sniper
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Date: August 31, 2012 02:43PM
Reston Riches Wrote:
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> Reston National has been around for years. I
> doubt anybody in Reston is going let the course
> go. There are a lot of weathly people in Reston
> that will not let that happen.
You're joking, right? Really? REALLY? This isn't 1987 anymore...I mean, back then the only brown savages you'd see at Reston National would be picking up the trash and maintaining the course. Now, they're teeing it up...
Reston's days as the rich man's secluded hideaway are not only over...they've been over. Long time. Now, it's Chirilagualita.
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> Reston National has been around for years. I
> doubt anybody in Reston is going let the course
> go. There are a lot of weathly people in Reston
> that will not let that happen.
You're joking, right? Really? REALLY? This isn't 1987 anymore...I mean, back then the only brown savages you'd see at Reston National would be picking up the trash and maintaining the course. Now, they're teeing it up...
Reston's days as the rich man's secluded hideaway are not only over...they've been over. Long time. Now, it's Chirilagualita.
Re: Reston groups fight to protect golf course
Posted by:
Avid Golfer
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Date: September 01, 2012 09:53AM
Troll.Sniper Wrote:
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> Reston Riches Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Reston National has been around for years. I
> > doubt anybody in Reston is going let the course
> > go. There are a lot of weathly people in
> Reston
> > that will not let that happen.
>
> You're joking, right? Really? REALLY? This isn't
> 1987 anymore...I mean, back then the only brown
> savages you'd see at Reston National would be
> picking up the trash and maintaining the course.
> Now, they're teeing it up...
>
> Reston's days as the rich man's secluded hideaway
> are not only over...they've been over. Long time.
> Now, it's Chirilagualita.
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> Reston Riches Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Reston National has been around for years. I
> > doubt anybody in Reston is going let the course
> > go. There are a lot of weathly people in
> Reston
> > that will not let that happen.
>
> You're joking, right? Really? REALLY? This isn't
> 1987 anymore...I mean, back then the only brown
> savages you'd see at Reston National would be
> picking up the trash and maintaining the course.
> Now, they're teeing it up...
>
> Reston's days as the rich man's secluded hideaway
> are not only over...they've been over. Long time.
> Now, it's Chirilagualita.
Re: Reston groups fight to protect golf course
Posted by:
vinnie the wop
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Date: September 01, 2012 10:07AM
Ted Knight was perfect for the role of Judge Smails.
Re: Reston groups fight to protect golf course
Posted by:
Small Balls
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Date: September 01, 2012 11:11AM
Fuck golf.
Turn it onto a Rugby field
Turn it onto a Rugby field
Re: Reston groups fight to protect golf course
Posted by:
sharon b
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Date: September 01, 2012 11:36AM
Small Balls Wrote:
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> Fuck golf.
> Turn it onto a Rugby field
Luxury apartments for illegals on section 8
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> Fuck golf.
> Turn it onto a Rugby field
Luxury apartments for illegals on section 8
Re: Reston groups fight to protect golf course
Posted by:
Kill All Da Gophers!
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Date: September 01, 2012 01:49PM
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Re: Reston groups fight to protect golf course
Posted by:
Bigger balls
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Date: September 01, 2012 05:30PM
sharon b Wrote:
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> Small Balls Wrote:
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> -----
> > Fuck golf.
> > Turn it onto a Rugby field
>
> Luxury apartments for illegals on section 8
Why is everyone concerned by illegals.
I'm more concerned about rich fucks, corrupt politicians, corporate excuses for human beings and conservative religious zealots who are desecrating the country in the name of capitallism.
I do not think the creator is happy at the moment.
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> Small Balls Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Fuck golf.
> > Turn it onto a Rugby field
>
> Luxury apartments for illegals on section 8
Why is everyone concerned by illegals.
I'm more concerned about rich fucks, corrupt politicians, corporate excuses for human beings and conservative religious zealots who are desecrating the country in the name of capitallism.
I do not think the creator is happy at the moment.