Holmes Run Valley Community

The spring meeting convened in the Beech Tree Elementary School cafeteria at 7 pm on Wednesday, 22 April, with 25 members participating. The agenda included:

• Treasurer’s report
• Community safety and security
• Results of the previous Saturday’s stream valley pick-up
• Status of White Gardens renovation
• County-wide initiative to remove invasive plants
• Renewal of our Neighborhood Watch signs
• Register your doorbell camera with FCPD
• The new HRVCA Web site
• Join Facebook!!
• Spring Meet-Up and PlayDate scheduled for Saturday, May 16
• Neighborhood picnic committee
• Status of Westcott Substation expansion
• Post mortem of 2026 casino legislation

Meeting results are summarized in the meeting report, which includes a link to the slides on the first page. Alternatively, the slides are available here.

On 29 Oct, our fall meeting convened in the Beech Tree Elementary School cafeteria at 7:00 PM and concluded prior to 8:30. Forty-six members participated. The agenda included:

• Election of directors
• Safety and security
• Recurring HRVCA activities
• Meet Up & Play Dates
• Participating in our community
• HRVCA website
• 2026 budget and dues
• Community care and communications
• Pending development activities
• Local land use issue

A new Board member was elected.

The meeting report describes principal points of the discussion. Meeting slides are available here and on the first page of the meeting report. Our next meeting is planned for April.

Thank you for your participation in HRVCA.

Our  2025 Spring Meeting convened in the cafeteria of Beech Tree Elementary School at 7 PM on Wednesday, April 9.  The featured guest was our district supervisor, Andres Jimenez, who gave us 90 minutes of his time.  The agenda of the meeting following Andres’s remarks included:

• Treasurer’s report
• Neighborhood safety and security
• Changes to association name and logo
• Plans for HRVCA activities
• List of Community Resources (aka Hotshot)
• Traffic update

The meeting report describes plans for our tradition Stream Valley Clean Up, a new Spring Meet Up and Play Date, White Gardens Work Parties, our National Night Out celebrating our public safety professionals, and a proposed Fall Block Party.  Our next meeting is planned for October.

The cafeteria at Beech Tree Elementary School again was the venue of our meeting, this time the 2024 Fall meeting of Holmes Run Valley Citizens Association. The meeting convened at 7:00 PM on Wednesday, 23 October, and lasted 90 minutes. The agenda covered more topics than customary:

• Treasurer’s Report and Dues Collection
• Crime Report
• Election of Directors and Bylaws Amendment
• Concerns re Fairfax County Casino
• Traffic Update
• County Plans for Leaf Collection
• White Gardens Park Needs Our Help
• Results of 6 August National Night Out Celebration
• Dominion Energy Upgrade of Westcott Substation
• County’s Zero Waste Management Program
• Zoning Ordinance Changes for Data Centers

The meeting report summarizes results and introduces two new Board members. The first page of the report provides a link to meeting slides. Our next meeting is planned for April.

Thank you for your interest in HRVCA.

HRVCA held its 2024 spring meeting in the cafeteria of Beech Tree Elementary School on 1 May from 7:00 to 8:30 PM. Principal topics discussed were:

• Treasurer’s and crime reports
• Concerns re proposal for casino at Tysons
• Advancing our sense of community
• New Holmes Run Valley Facebook group
• Status of Westcott power station upgrade
• 13 April stream valley clean up success!!
• Status of county vacuum leaf collection service
• National Night Out planned for Aug 6 – save the date

The meeting report and slides are on our blog.

Every spring Holmes Run Valley Citizens Association (HRVCA) partners with Friends of Holmes Run and the Fairfax County Parks Authority to pick up the litter that has accumulated over the winter along the section of Holmes Run that flows thru our community – roughly from Annandale Road south to Sleepy Hollow Road. Friends of Holmes Run coordinates the event for the full length of Holmes Run, and FCPA picks up the litter collected by the various teams that FHR has organized.

This year the HRVCA team’s clean up begins at 9:30 AM on Saturday, April 13, at the entrance to the stream valley adjacent to the intersection of Rose Lane and Slade Run Drive. Children are welcome and some people bring their dogs. Wear comfortable shoes and bring work gloves. HRVCA will provide hot dogs, chips, and drinks afterwards to celebrate our accomplishment. Typically, the event concludes by noon or 12:30. Come and go any time.

Please come meet your neighbors and enjoy some fellowship and fresh air while enhancing the quality of our stream valley.

HRVCA held its 2023 fall meeting in the cafeteria of Beech Tree Elementary School on 13 December from 7:00 to 8:30 PM. Principal topics discussed were:
*  Summary of our traffic issues survey project
*  New association initiatives/activities
* Dues collection and treasurer’s report
* Election of directors
* Crime report

2023_1213_Meeting_Results  describes principal meeting activities.   2023_1213_Slides  provides copies of the slides.  Our next meeting is planned for March.

Thank you for your interest in the activities of the Holmes Run Valley Citizens Association.

The Board of Holmes Run Valley Citizens Assoc is inviting members to a Zoom meeting to decide the next phase of our neighborhood traffic safety project.

The Board of HRVCA asks members to please participate in a Zoom meeting this Wednesday, Nov 15, at 7:30 PM.  The objective of the meeting is to briefly review the results of last summer’s neighborhood traffic survey and then decide how best to proceed with the implementation of measures to improve traffic safety in our community.

Members are asked to please attend the Nov 15 meeting if reasonably possible.  The survey will be productive only if it results in meaningful safety improvements that are compatible with our community.  Your experience and perspective are essential for identifying those enhancements.

Zoom meeting link is here.

Meeting ID: 821 0669 4406, Passcode: 807494

Call in number: 301 715 8592

In response to members’ concerns about traffic safety in the community, the association’s 12 Apr spring meeting agreed that we should identify the issues and consult Fairfax County and VDOT regarding remediation options.  To that end, on 21 July the HRVCA Board invited residents to participate in an online survey.  The survey closed on 10 August.

The objective of the survey was to identify traffic safety issues in the community and the locations where those issues arise.   In order to constrain work load and duration, the survey was limited to homes on or bordering on one of the eight principal streets by which traffic enters and exits the community, namely: Beechtree Lane, Devon Drive, Holloman Road, Kennedy Lane, Radnor Place, Rose Lane, Slade Run Drive, and Valley Brook Drive.

The report of survey findings is here.

Summary of our 2023 spring meeting results is here.

Principal topics discussed were