Reston, VA
Home Additions in Reston, VA
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Home Additions · Reston
Why Reston homeowners hire us.
A Reston addition is a Fairfax County Land Development Services project, filed for an unincorporated community rather than a town hall.
Owner-occupied housing counted for Reston in the American Community Survey 2024 five-year estimates shows a median value of $642,000, 17,395 owner-occupied units, a 60.6 percent owner share, and a median year built of 1984.
The county's Erosion and Stormwater Management Ordinance covers land-disturbing activity of 2,500 square feet or more, and work cannot start until a site-related plan is approved. The county's calculation adds the project footprint, a 10-foot-wide work zone around all sides, a 10-foot-wide access path from the existing street or driveway to the footprint, and, when the work includes excavation, the footprint of excavated material set aside on the lot. Letter to Industry 09-05 is the county pointer for that math. A Reston addition is priced with a free written estimate after a site walk.
For this area, see Permits in Fairfax County: what to expect.
Reston addition filing
Confirm the Reston parcel is in Fairfax County and file the addition with Land Development Services. The town-approval sentence that names Clifton and Vienna does not name Reston.
Why Reston homeowners choose Real Elite
- ·Family-run remodeling and exterior contracting.
- ·Discuss the scope of your Reston home additions project at the estimate.
- ·Virginia Class A Contractor 2705198604 (HIC) — residential home improvement.
Questions about home additions in Reston
Who permits a home addition in Reston?+
Fairfax County describes Reston as unincorporated, and county agencies supply its schools, its roads, its law enforcement, and its other local government services. The residential addition or alteration record is filed in PLUS under the Building tab, and a property owner may apply in their own name. Review can include the Permit Application Center, the Health Department if the house is on a well or septic system, Building Plan Review, the Site Technician Review team, the Fire Marshal's Office, Wastewater, and Zoning.
Does the county name Reston for a separate town approval?+
The residential addition page names a separate town approval for Clifton and for Vienna only. Reston is not in that sentence. That is not a statement that Reston is free of every other approval. The owner should check any association rules for the house. That step is private. It is not the Fairfax County permit, and a county permit is not association approval. Building permits, trade permits for electrical, mechanical, and plumbing, and land-disturbance permits are separate. Real Elite coordinates the trade permits and does not do electrical, plumbing, or HVAC work.
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