Friday, February 16, 2018

LAKE ANNE FELLOWSHIP HOUSE UPDATES

August 28:  FH requested a 7:00 p.m. September 18 DRB Final Design Approval meeting.  The FH project team has posted these and previous presentation materials, including proposed schematic building and landscape plans, to a dedicated project webpage

July 31:  FH requested a 6:00 p.m. August 21 DRB Work Session to discuss proposed site plan revisions and new townhome architectural designs.
 
July 24:  HCA received the RA DRB July 17 full Board meeting decision letter.  Revised FH townhome concept is for 36 units.

July 2:  Next FH presentation at RA DRB is 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, July 17 for approval of a site plan and general building massing, hopefully with June 19 DRB townhome feedback. 

May 29:  FH notified HCA of a 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, June 19 RA DRB public meeting to request approval of a site plan and general massing plan at RA Headquarters. 

May 4:  The project team notified affected HCA Mermbers via letter of a 12:00 noon scheduled work session with RA DRB on Friday, May 25 at RA Headquarters.  Previous sessions were open to the public.  Also,  the applications are currently scheduled on October 4 before the County Planning Commission and October 16 before the Board of Supervisors. 

April 13:  RA announced today that the Tuesday, April 17 DRB working session with the Fellowship House redevelopment team at RA Headquarters is scheduled for 6:00 to 7:00 p.m., one hour earlier than the normal DRB 7:00 p.m. start time.  In addition, a video of the April 6 redevelopment team informational presentation to RA DRB is available online.  Several HCA Members and Directors attended the April 6 meeting. 

March 29:  The snowstorm-cancelled March 20 RA DRB information session is rescheduled for Friday, April 6 from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. at RA Headquarters.  In addition, a working session is scheduled for the regular Tuesday, April 17 DRB meeting also at RA. 

February 27:  The project team verbally reported that the next community outreach meeting is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 15 at Lake Anne Elementary School for HCA and Lake Anne Condo residents, and Fairfax County distributed formal notices on March 7.  In addition, the project team mailed Affected Party notification letters  on February 27 to HCA Members advising of the 7:00 p.m. March 20 DRB informational meeting at RA Headquarters with a direct public link to related DRB general presentation slides and Phase 1-3 initial architectural, landscape, and site drawings.  From that DRB meeting material, HCA distilled selected Phase 3 slides and drawings specifically relevant to adjacent HCA Block 1 Affected Neighbors.

RA announced February 16 that the New Lake Anne House LP project team will provide an informational presentation to the full DRB on Tuesday, March 20, 2018.  The February 2018 RA Reston Development Tracker also noted related events:  Fairfax County Staff Report available July 4, Planning Commission hearing July 19, and Board of Supervisors hearing July 31.  In addition, the team selected an undisclosed prominent home builder with Fairfax County experience as developer of up to 70 four-story single family homes to be built immediately adjacent to HCA Block 1 within four years. 

The project team recently surveyed and marked the HCA shared property line with tall wooden stakes and pink marking tape, and marked trees with metal tags and colored tape.