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" Those Loudoun County stops will have gigantic parking garages for a reason; ie. people will be able to drive from outer Loudoun and further out and take a quick Metro trip in."

very few people from "outer" ie Western loudoun will use the metro - which is why Western Loudoun mostly opposes it. Most will be from eastern loudoun - sterling, ashburn, etc. They will use it to commute to Tysons mostly - they largely already do, but will now have a tranist option. Less auto use.

"Areas that are now rural can be developed into exurbs."

Not in most of Western Loudoun, where zoning and conservation easements limit development. In those areas where greenfield development is taking place, its enabled by highways, not transit.

" From the time the Springfield station opened and exurbs exploded in Prince William and Stafford the trend has been the same."

Most of those commuters go by road, and many do not commute anywhere transit accessible.

" Now that the western bypass is on the table again the developers and Loudoun are confused as to which they want priority for. "

The folks against the silver line in LC are against it period. Those for it, want the silver line first (if the support the western bypass at all, which many do not)

"Density has to do with better utilization of built environment we already have. The waste and under use of buildings in DC is appalling."

which is why building new development on old parking lot, or on an old shopping center, adding units and activity without changing impervious area, is good.

"Density has to do with better utilization of built environment we already have. The waste and under use of buildings in DC is appalling. In any new proposal to cover more permeable surface we have to consider its effect on the ground water runoff problem- that $2.6 Billion is no joke."

sure. Add a cost for lost pervious area. A real, but finite, cost.

" But we never do. There's all this advocacy to concrete over McMillian Park"

Then I guess it would make more sense to have more units there in midrises and fewer in townhouses, to conserve pervious area.

"concrete over the front lawn of Springarn,"

Only a part of it, IIUC.

" build more structures with huge underground garages"

same impervious area, so Im still not convinced this adds to the stormwater problem.

"If other urban centers (not just Paris) can stay green while having high density we can too. "

paris has schools with large green lawns near the center of the city?

by AWalkerInTheCity on Jun 29, 2012 10:14 am • link • report