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nice post.

All communities should have transportation demand management requirements for siting decisions for capital expenditures using public monies.

The argument about doing surveys of how people get there begs the question. The library is located in a zone of automobility and the density of housing is such that limited numbers of people in the immediate area are likely to be served through walking-bicycling-transit.

The issue though here, is that you are asking that MoCo change its orientation from automobility and suburbanity to walking-bicycling-transit and a different mobility and land use paradigm.

This is in keeping with the new paradigm that MoCo is working to develop. (I haven't had a chance to get to one of the meetings yet where Royce Hanson talks about this...

http://www.montgomeryplanning.org/research/growth_policy/growth_policy09/agp_growing_smarter.shtm

But it does involve real tradeoffs and losses for certain favored constituencies who benefit from the current paradigm.

by Richard Layman on Apr 22, 2009 1:13 pm • link • report

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