Frequently Asked Questions

Oct 25, 2018 | Updates

When will the golf course controversy be over? As long as there exists even the slightest possibility that either golf course property could be redeveloped into residential or commercial square footage, speculative developers will try to pillage the land. We can relax...

Rescue Reston Takes On Wheelock At RA Board Meeting

Sep 29, 2018 | Events

At the Reston Association Board Meeting on September 27, 2018, Connie Hartke, RR President, and Lynne Mulston, North Course Committee Chair, gave an opposing view to Wheelock’s misleading presentation of a “Grand Park.” Click here to view the RR...

Why ALL of the Hidden Creek Golf Course Needs to be Protected as Open Space

Sep 16, 2018 | Updates

scroll down to end for What you can do Wheelock Communities, the Connecticut-based company that bought the Hidden Creek Country Club in north Reston, says it wants to build housing on 40 percent of the golf course land.  That’s right—they want to build housing on...

Worrisome Signs That Wheelock Never Intended for Hidden Creek To Remain a Golf Course

Aug 13, 2018 | Updates

Wheelock Communities bought Hidden Creek Country Club in October 2017. Hidden Creek is zoned as a golf course and is intended in the Reston Master Plan to remain a golf course in order to provide planned, open green space as a balance to the high-density development...

All Signs Point to Wheelock Communities’ Intention to Build Housing/Roads on Hidden Creek Golf Course

Aug 4, 2018 | Updates

Wheelock views the two adjacent properties it now owns—Hidden Creek Country Club (HCCC) and Charter Oak Apartments (COA)—as one parcel of land available for housing development, according to initial proposals that the Reston Association Board of Directors discussed at...

Email to Supervisor Hudgins re: Reston’s Recreational Green Open Space Golf Courses

Aug 2, 2018 | Updates

Date: Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 2:25 PM Subject: Reston’s Recreational Green Open Space Golf Courses To: huntermill@fairfaxcounty.gov Cc: chairman@fairfaxcounty.gov, mason@fairfaxcounty.gov, northcourse@rescuereston.org, info@rescuereston.org Dear Supervisor Hudgins, I...

Save Reston’s Recreational Open Space at Hidden Creek Country Club

Aug 1, 2018 | In the Media, Updates

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 31, 2018 – Reston, VA – At the July 26 Board of Directors meeting at Reston Association, Rescue Reston representatives Connie Hartke and Lynne Mulston continued to lay the ground for the campaign to SAVE Reston’s...

Rescue Reston Expands Mission to Include Hidden Creek Country Club

Dec 5, 2017 | In the Media, Updates

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Rescue Reston Expands Mission to Include Hidden Creek Country Club Reston, VA December 5, 2017 – Due to overwhelming requests that Rescue Reston received from citizens for advice and support, the Rescue Reston board of directors voted to extend...

Email to Supervisor Hudgins re: Rescue Reston’s Expanded Mission Statement

Nov 20, 2017 | Updates

In a letter to Fairfax County Supervisor Hudgins, Rescue Reston President Connie Hartke explains why Rescue Reston has expanded its mission to include protection of the North Course (Hidden Creek Country Club) along with the South Course (Reston National Golf Course)....

Rescue Reston Reflects on the Announcement of Hidden Creek Country Club Sale

Nov 1, 2017 | Updates

Rescue Reston’s mission is to defend Reston’s recreational green space at Reston National Golf Course (RNGC), a 166-acre Certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary Program Golf Course on the Chesapeake Bay watershed. RNGC’s land use designation is exactly the...