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SUPERVISOR DISTRICTS: HUNTER MILL / DRANESVILLE ST09-III-UP1(A)
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STAFF REPORT
Reston Master Plan Phase 1 ST09-III-UP1(A)
BACKGROUND
The Board of Supervisors authorized the Reston Master Plan Special Study on May 18, 2009 and directed staff to initiate Phase 1 of the study, which is a review of Comprehensive Plan recommendations pertaining to the areas around the three planned Reston Metrorail stations: Reston Town Center Station, Wiehle-Reston East Station and the Herndon Station. Phase II of the Reston Master Plan Special Study will review the wider Reston community including the Village Centers and selected commercial areas. In the fall of 2009, a community Task Force was appointed for the Phase I effort by the Board of Supervisors, which included representatives of Reston resident groups, owners of commercial property in the study area and other interested members of the community. Working with staff, the Task Force was charged with evaluating existing Comprehensive Plan recommendations and identifying changes to guide future transit-oriented development (TOD) in the vicinity of the three Reston stations. The Task Force and several sub-committees of the full Task Force met regularly from 2010 through 2013 to develop an approach to furthering TOD development at the stations. Subsequently, the Task Force worked with staff to develop their recommendations which were finalized at their meeting on October 29, 2013. A record of the Task Force effort including reports, presentations and documents prepared by the Task Force, staff and members of the community can be viewed on the study website: http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dpz/reston/ 
LOCATION AND CHARACTER OF THE AREA
The study area, identified in the current Area III volume of the Comprehensive Plan as the Reston-Herndon Suburban Center, is located approximately 20 miles west of Washington DC, seven miles west of Tysons Corner and six miles east of Washington Dulles International Airport. The area is over 1,700 acres and includes the Reston Town Center and three designated Transit Station Areas (TSA) around the three planned Metrorail stations within the Reston portion of the Dulles Corridor. The study area generally spans the section of the Dulles Airport Access and Toll Road (the Dulles Toll Road) between Hunter Mill Road on the southeast, the Virginia Department of Transportation owned storage facility on the northeast and to Centreville Road on the west. The southern boundary is generally Sunrise Valley Drive; the north is generally bounded by the Town of Herndon, Baron Cameron Avenue, and Sunset Hills Road. Development within the Town Center and three TSAs vary in character from low to medium intensity office buildings along the Dulles Corridor, ranging in height from two to ten stories, to

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