 Recent
Additions or Changes
This is where you can look to find the most recent additions or changes to
our website. If you've visited the site before and want to know what's
changed, take a look here first.
Reston Heights Concerts
JBG,Inc., the owners to the Sheraton and Westin Hotels are sponsoring a set
of monthly concerts on the hotel plaza between 5 and 7 pm, all on Sunday
nights. The concert schedule includes, June 22, July 20, August 17,
September 21, and October 12. Click
Here to see the schedule and the names of the groups performing on each
date.
Results of the Annual Meeting
The 2007 Annual Meeting of the Hunters Green Cluster Association was held on
Tuesday evening, December 4. At the meeting, Bob Lassiter and Betsy Hill
were elected to three-year terms on the Board of Directors. The 2008
budget, as proposed by the Board of Directors, was passed without modification
by the membership in attendance. Click
Here to see the approved budget as it was presented in the November 2007
newsletter.
Further details regarding the meeting will be forthcoming in the January 2008
newsletter. Click Here to see the
membership of the HGCA Board of Directors for 2008 and to obtain their contact
information.
Five New High-rises Proposed for the Sheraton Property
(Updated 12/27)
JBG, the owners of the Sheraton and its surrounding land and
properties, has submitted a proposal to the County to tear down all existing single-story buildings and replace them with five high-rise residential and
commercial buildings, ranging in height from 14 to 18 stories. Plans also
include replacing the 570 surface-level parking spaces with a parking garage with spaces for
2,831 cars. Two additional traffic lights are planned for Sunrise Valley
Drive, one at Roland Clarke Place, and the other at the entrance to the new
development. The total floor area
in the buildings will exceed one million square feet. These five buildings
will be in addition to those already under construction and three others planned
for Roland Clarke Place. The project, to
be called "Reston Heights," was
discussed on October 1 at a meeting of the Reston Planning and Zoning Committee
. Click
Here to see a copy of that meeting's agenda, and read item #4.
To see the county's parcel map for the larger of the two land areas, Click
Here. The project was again on the agenda of the Reston
Planning and Zoning Committee at their meeting on Monday evening, November
5. At the meeting, the Committee voted to endorse the project as
presented. The vote was 9 for, 2 against, with one abstention.
The project was on the agenda for public hearing by the Fairfax County
Planning Commission at its meeting on November 7. Cluster residents Fred
and Rita Rothwarf attended and testified at that hearing as to the potential for
horrible traffic problems on Sunrise Valley Drive if the project were approved
in its present form. In response to their testimony, Hunter Mill Planning
Commissioner Frank de la Fe, asked the rest of the Commission to postpone their
vote till their next meeting on Wednesday night, November 28. (Click
Here to review or print a copy of the PLANNING Commission's STAFF report.)
The Planning Commission met on November 28 and approved the project
without modification. The County Board considered the project at an open
hearing on January 7. After hearing testimony from a number of HGC
residents and the representatives of JBG in attendance, the Board postponed
their vote till their next meeting on January 28.
At the January 28 meeting, the Board of Supervisors approved the project
without modification. Supervisor Cathy Hudgins noted that there were still
more steps in the approval process such as consideration by the Reston
Association's Design Review Board, and a traffic study prior to beginning any
construction.
Landscape Maintenance Master Plan
In early 2006, the Board of Directors contracted with a professional
landscape designer to produce a multi-year master plan to maintain and improve
the landscaping of the common ground in the cluster. At the September 2006
Board meeting, the Board of Directors received and adopted the master plan.
Click Here to see it.
Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project
At the May 2006 meeting of the HGCA Board of Directors, the Board received a
presentation on the status of the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project. The
presentation was given by Marsha McAllister, Communications Manager for the
Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation. Her presentation
was accompanied by a slide show consisting of 32 screens. If you wish to
view this presentation, follow the instructions in the next paragraph.
You can download the presentation to your computer by RIGHT
CLICKING ON THIS LINK. You will see a pop-up menu box.
In this box, select the third option that reads, "Save Target
As...". You will then see a pop-up box that will allow you to
select a directory and file location where you want the presentation to be
stored on your computer. The name of the file to be downloaded will be
"Metrorail_Project.pps". Once the download finishes, you
can OPEN or RUN the file to see the presentation. To advance through the
presentation, left-click on each page to go to the next slide.
We do have a warning for you, however. The presentation file is quite
large -- 61 MB in size! If you have a broadband internet connection, it
should take about two minutes to download the whole presentation. If you
have a dial-up connection, you should probably not try to download the
presentation -- unless you have an hour or two to burn while it downloads.
Get Your Mail Forwarding Account!
If you are a Hunters Green Cluster homeowner or resident, you and your family
members are eligible to have mail-forwarding accounts in the HuntersGreen.org
domain. If you are unfamiliar with the concept, a mail forwarding account
allows you to have a username or e-mail identity in a domain (HuntersGreen.org
in this case). For example, you could select
"John.Doe@HuntersGreen.org" for your mail account, and any e-mail to
you arriving at that address would be automatically forwarded to another address
where you normally receive your e-mail. In other words, if your primary
e-mail address were "John_Doe@comcast.net", you could have all e-mail
arriving at John.Doe@HuntersGreen.org forwarded instead to John_Doe@comcast.net.
If you wish to have a mail forwarding account set up for you,
.
Web Page for Realtors
A new web page has been added to this website with pertinent information for
realtors. It can be viewed by
or by using the new button that has been added to the left
margin of the home page.
New Web Page with Cluster Standards
A new page has been added to the web that addresses Cluster Standards.
On it, you will find the standards for front door lighting, house numbers,
roofing, fencing, and details about the Cluster color palette, complete with samples of
each color. Check it out by
or by using the new button that has been added to the left
margin of the home page.
Meeting Schedule for the Board of Directors
At its meeting on March 19, 2002, the Board of Directors adopted a regular
meeting schedule for future meetings. The July 10 Board Meeting has
been canceled sine die. The Board may schedule a special meeting
later this summer. The next regularly scheduled meeting of the Board
will take place at 7:45 pm, Thursday, September 11, 2008 at the Reston Community
Center in Hunters Woods.
To see the minutes of any meeting, dating
back to 1999,
.
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