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11/15/2004 Entry: "Important Lake Anne Meeting Tomorrow"

Panel To Discuss Lake Anne

A community meeting on Lake Anne's past, present and future will be held at the Reston Community Center at Lake Anne on Tuesday, Nov. 16 at 7 p.m. Reston's founder, Robert Simon will discuss his original vision for the community and representatives for each era of Lake Anne's history will also speak.

Among the expected highlights of the presentation will be the release of the initial findings of a needs assessment study being conducted to determine the economic and infrastructure health of the historic neighborhood. The discussion is open to the public and will be moderated by Sarah Larson, a Reston historian.

Basile, Baumann Prost & Associates Inc, the firm doing the needs assessment study packaged the Mall of America. Locally, they've worked on the Potomac Yards, and the Fairfax County Government Center. I'm not looking forward to their plans very much.

My hope is the plan will revolve around adding a small independent-run movie theatre to the area. However, more realistically, it'll probably involve replacing the Lake Anne parking lot with two or more high rises, and probably eating the hill by Crescent Apartments for additional development.