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Edition of Jan. 4, 2008

RCA Endorses Call for Task Force on Governance

To the editor:

Responding to your "Close to Home" column of Dec. 21 ("ResTown Project Thrown Off Track," I would like readers to know of the recommendation which the Fairfax County Federation of Citizens Associations will make to the northern Virginia delegation to the General Assembly on Jan. 5.

The recommendation calls for a task force that includes all the stakeholders. The task force will examine the Reston town incorporation options and suggest the way forward. The implementation of this task force will accomplish the goals, mentioned in your newspaper, of involving all relevant parties and ensuring complete information exchange.

The Reston Citizens Association is pleased that Reston Association, the Alliance for Reston Clusters and Homeowners and Reston Community Center, responding to Del. Ken Plum and Sen. Janet Howell, called for more information rather than opposing Reston self-determination. In my view this shows a laudable, public-spirited perspective rather than a narrow perspective of organizational self-interest.

RCA believes that when all parties buckle down to the details, as we hope they will, they will discover that everything they have heard RCA say in hearings, forums, town meetings, workshops and in the press has been based on RCA's proposed charter, grounded in the 1980 charter. This charter in turn was the result of extensive negotiations between the legislature, the county and Reston stakeholders in the late 1970s. Much has changed since then, though not the need for Reston to preserve its character as a planned community. We look forward to working together.

Marion Stillson

Vice President

Reston Citizens Association