Golf Courses can be Environmental Assets in Urban Settings

Dec 16, 2019 | Updates

contributed by Doug Britt For years golf courses have been stereotyped as environmentally unfriendly amenities. But times are changing the way they are being managed. Overall Virginia has 37,000 acres of open space devoted to golf courses, and many of them are...

Op-Ed: Open Space — All of It for All of Us

Jul 25, 2019 | In the Media, Updates

RestonNow.com, July 24, 2019 You’ve probably seen this yourself:  communities that once were charming and lovely but are now car-clogged concrete canyons.  Rescue Reston and other like-minded yellow-shirted citizens associations in Reston are dedicated to preserving...

Rescue Reston Responds to News of Reston National Golf Course Sale

May 20, 2019 | In the Media, Updates

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Reston, VA May 19, 2019 – Rescue Reston is disappointed that a developer who fully intended to keep the 18-hole golf course and put the majority of the open space into a permanent preservation trust could not gain traction with RN Golf, majority...

Debunking the “Golf Is Dying” Myth

Apr 27, 2019 | Updates

View Reston Citizens Association press release on meeting with We Are Golf Executive Director Steve Mona Wheelock Communities, owner of Hidden Creek Country Club, is looking to bulldoze another successful golf course, Bardmoor Golf and Tennis Club on the west coast of...

Amendment to raise the population density “indefinitely deferred” by Board of Supervisors

Mar 5, 2019 | Updates

On Wednesday, March 5th, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors “indefinitely deferred” the amendment to raise the population density in Reston’s established residential neighborhoods, which have a unique zoning designation of Planned Residential...

Response from Chairman Bulova on Zoning Ordinance Amendment re Density Provisions

Feb 23, 2019 | Updates

Rescue Reston received the following from Fairfax Board of Supervisors Chairman Sharon Bulova: February 22, 2019 Subject: RE: Remove from the 3/5 agenda – ZONING ORDINANCE AMENDMENT– ARTICLE 6 – DENSITY PROVISIONS FOR THE RESTON PRC DISTRICT (Hunter Mill...

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...