Fairfax" Board Meets Last Time Before Vote
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors voted on subjects ranging from land use to larger street signs yesterday in its last full meeting before the Nov; *3 election that will decide the board-Ûªs'future composition.</br></br>Among the decisions made was one designed to guide development on a key 30-acre tract in Reston. The vote on street signs will make them bigger and taller and change them -from the familiar green to blue in the name of better legibility and permanence.</br></br>YesterdayÛªs meeting was the last until January at which the board will address new land-use matters. The moratorium, which the supervisors agreed to impose on themselves in accordance with tradition, is designed to take politics out of zoning and land matters before the board that is elected in two weeks is seated in the new year.</br></br>In the Reston case, the board approved a pldn to reduce the amount of office development permitted on 30 acres that was formerly the site of the A. Smith Bowman Distillery, maker of Virginia Gentleman bourbon.</br></br>The distilleryÛªs decision to leave Reston last summer sparked a bitter debate over office construction planned for the county. A subsequent proposal t0 severely curtail such development on more than 10,000 acres was defeated but led to an ongoing study of the countyÛªs land-use and transportation goals.