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[quote=Anonymous]Look at a satellite image of Moco versus Fairfax/Loudon Counties. It is quite a reveal at two very divergent planning strategies.

NoVa has unending sprawl with hundreds of square miles of cul-de-sac single family and townhouse developments with the corresponding ubquitious strip malls. Add to it the server farms that provide a completely dead streetscape and minimal employment ( a few  engineers on staff and some security) once constructed and operational. Density along 267 and the attempt and infilling at Reston and Herndon.

Across the river, there is the dense Rockville Pike Corridor, the relatively dense Rout 29 Corridor, and development centered around Kensington and Wheaton and the metro stations. The almost entire rest of the county is the same McMansion farms and low density/low intensity development along with the Ag reserve.

You can see very plainly that other than along the river, most of NVa is hardscaped and the corresponding environmental degradation is stark.

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.0321669,-77.2494257,24055m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu[/quote]

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