Another Year, Another Listicle: What's Hot and Not in Reston for 2023

As another year comes to a close in our plastic fantastic planned community, it's once again time for us to reflect on the year just past--and what's to come.  Enjoy this oh-so-original listicle format, and here's to a happy, appropriately earth-toned new year.

OUT	IN
Silver Line Phase 2 grand opening	A far, far more important grand opening
Hanging out with our besties at Clyde's	Crowding around our recently obtained scale model of a 1930s schooner in the sunken living room
Sexy DRB meetings	Not-so-sexy Comprehensive Plan meetings
Watching teevee (or at least PBS)	Reading books
Reston's Russian connection	Literal, not symbolic, bears
X-rated bike trails in Vienna	Nude pickleball in Reston
Mixed-use communities	Gated communities
Paying RA dues	Using the money to own a piece of RTC-adjacent property
Issac Newton Square	Issac Newton quadrilaterals
Money Magazine listicles	Hanging out in a true livable community, which apparently involves Gastby's Tavern
Invasive plants as an excuse for widespread redevelopment	Just goin' for it