Meeting Details
- Date: 12/10/2025
- Time: Called to order 6.54pm; adjourned 8.21
- Location/Platform: GoTo
- Facilitator/Chair: Sonata Haley
- Minute Taker: Angela Eng
- Attendees: Sonata Haley, Christian Nicholson, Jim McDonald, Kristina Scrimshaw, Maryanna Lanning Smith, Angela Eng, Eric Kerby, Connor Tracy, Scott Geyer
Agenda
Architectural Committee
- No updates
Common Grounds
- No updates
Treasurers Report
- Paid website, lawn care
- $5,800 for private street repaving Vantage Court (have invoice)
- Need to make a list for people delinquent for paying dues
Pipestem Committee
- No updates
Guest Speakers
- Jake Hermle and Dan VanPelt from Gorove Slade presenting on traffic and building progress in the neighborhood and surrounding areas
- Project already presented to Rose Hill Civic Association
- Proposal under discussion: redevelopment of Telegraph site; currently defunct Federal building
- 150 senior housing units and 50 single-family homes; former proposal included less senior housing and a Montessori school
- Rose Hill voiced concerns about traffic on local streets and side street delay; asked for intersections nearby be studied
- Went over how Fairfax County reviews traffic; no comprehensive traffic assessment for this project because the threshold for new trips the project generates is below the amount needed for a Comprehensive Transportation Analysis
- Project leaders are doing a voluntary traffic analysis under the same methods needed for a formal analysis
- Analysis found that the housing plus Montessori is less additional trips than what the office used to generate and even less when the school is taken out of the scenario
- Collected traffic counts in peak periods for both morning and afternoon; looked at traffic on local streets (i.e., Cottonwood, Split Rock, Dorset Drive)
- Build out year of 2029; considers growth rate and projects nearby (Kingstowne) and generates what the future looks like with and without the project
- Estimates AM traffic increase would be about 1.1% at SKH; PM increase would be 1.2% increase
- Q&A Session
Active Items
- Will get the Signal group set up; set up WhatsApp instead by accident
- Tickets
- Two open tickets: one about common grounds trees that look like they will fall on private property; other is a complaint about an overgrown yard
- Connor will reach out about the tree issue and get the process moving to get those taken care of
- Two open tickets: one about common grounds trees that look like they will fall on private property; other is a complaint about an overgrown yard
- Newsletter
- Treasurer will send something this evening to round out the newsletter.
- Angela will start compiling ASAP. Will send to Sonata for printing when done.
- Misc.
- Santa Stops
- Signs are MIA; someone will need to check the shed and make sure
- Sonata will check if she has access to dispenser for hot chocolate; if not, we will order one
- Voted to approve around $115 for grill tools and dispenser
- Angela will take care of cocoa mix and marshmallows and cups, Sonata will get candy canes for Santa
- Santa Stops