But here is the thing; the merits you suggest for the proposal are absolutely irrelevant in the face of the many negatives it brings to the many existing neighbors who live here to enjoy the current circumstances which are codified by the comprehensive plan.  We can not and will not accept such a dramatically different, and currently impermissible, type of development to be forced on us.

Further, your very premise is false.  Of the 40,000 Prince William residents who work in Fairfax Co., I am skeptical of your assertion that many of them drive all the way to the north-western end of Fairfax Co. to reach jobs in Reston.  I'd like to see some support for that statement from a reliable source.

Additionally, there is no "housing crisis" in Reston.  There is an abundance of reasonably priced housing, both for sale and for rent, nearby.  The area along Glade Avenue, where housing values are depressed by the proximity to the county's earlier attempt at social engineering, the Stonegate Village housing project, is especially affordable.  If your measure is Prince William Co. (and I don't believe that is a relevant measure) there are plenty of townhouses and apartments in this area of Reston available for prices comparable to those in P.W. Co.

If people have chosen not to avail themselves of the abundantly available housing in Fairfax and continue to commute from other counties, the sudden availability of even more housing here will not entice them to move.  Many of them live there specifically because they think there are too many people in Fairfax already.  But the added housing inventory would erode the values of existing properties in the same price range because of the increase in supply.  In that case, you'd be using county resources to suppress the value of property currently owned by taxpayers.  I doubt they would appreciate the added competition in a soft real estate market.  Take a quick drive through these neighborhoods and look at all of the real estate signs in yards.

Finally, consider this: It is obvious that traffic could be reduced if more people would either move closer to their jobs or change to a job closer to their home.  Yet people aren't doing that, despite ample opportunity to do one or the other because of the strong job market and the current buyers' housing market.  Yet they choose not to.

Until you can determine why that is and whether the factors at work can be addressed by any government policy, I'd suggest you stop making haphazard attempts to resolve this issue with methods that don't address the root causes of the problem.

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