Tyson’s Corner, Virginia, will be Metro-accessible in 2013. This line from Governing Magazine struck me:
Near the transit stations, developers will be allowed to build at much higher densities, in exchange for creating the grid of streets, parks and affordable housing that Tysons never had.
Got that?
Tyson’s, to paraphrase Yogi Berra, has roads that are so congested nobody drives there anymore. But developers were forbidden by governments from building any other way, thanks to zoning restrictions. So now the Fairfax County government has come up with a new concept for planning with higher density development.
Maybe North Carolina’s planners have better models and more foresight than Northern Virginia’s planners.
