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Is This Smart Growth? Part Five
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The Planning Department staff’s new recommended growth policy encourages development away from transit and throws in the towel on congestion mitigation. Here are some ideas for doing this better.1. Restructure…
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Is This Smart Growth? Part Four
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In Part Two of this series, we detailed how the Planning Department staff recommendation for a new growth policy relaxed standards on mitigating traffic congestion. In Part Three, we explained…
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Is This Smart Growth? Part Three
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Smart growth holds that development should be directed to areas with abundant transit access. The Planning Department staff proposal for a new growth policy pursues that goal through a variety…
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Is This Smart Growth? Part Two
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In 2007, the Planning Department devised a new system for measuring a project’s impact on transportation capacity: Project Area Mobility Review (PAMR). The system relied on a trade-off between road…
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Is This Smart Growth? Part One
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The new Adequate Public Facility Ordinance (APFO) proposed by the Planning Department staff would provide new incentives for development around transit stations. That’s smart growth by anyone’s definition. But the…
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The recent loss of Hilton Hotel’s headquarters to Fairfax and the resignation of Department of Economic Development (DED) Director Pradeep Ganguly have created significant debate about DED’s performance and mission….
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Save Local First Wheaton
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It was August 2007, and there we sat at a table in Downtown Wheaton: a Venezuelan baker, a Salvadoran restaurant manager, a Scottish tavern owner, a Cuban-American non-profit director, an…
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Everybody Loves Main Street, Part Three
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By Emily Adelman. PART 3: Growing Pains Now, as far as our policymakers are concerned, the local shift is going to be more substantial, and it might hurt a little….
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Everybody Loves Main Street, Part Two
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By Emily Adelman. PART 2: The Multiplier Effect Maybe you’re thinking, “How is buying the same roll of dental floss at an independent pharmacy instead of a big-box chain store…