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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to Reston Town Center for the first time this week and was amazed at how it was such a large and successful model of walkable urbanism. It made every walkable urban development in Montgomery County look pathetic by comparison. It also featured a few things that Moco Planning seems to hate. First is freeway access. Second was thousands of free parking spaces. Third was employers. [/quote]

Bethesda and Silver Spring has these, plus transit. How does Reston do with bike connections?[/quote]
Neither downtown Bethesda nor downtown Silver Spring have direct freeway access.

In addition, the one thing that struck me was how these planners in Moco didn’t seem to study in college because otherwise they would have heard about central place theory. Instead of promoting all of these multitude of “activity centers” they should just focus on one or two. Because otherwise none of them reach scale to be successful. [/quote]

I’m not sure that the YImBYs care
much about practical application or optimal solutions.  Their goals are purely idealogical.  They are under some strange impression that fair means equal, and it’s not fair until everyone can live everyplace, even if that means gentrifying some areas and dragging down others via decreased property values and declining schools.  It’s like with the bike lanes, many of them will readily admit that the issues isn’t about bike travel, it’s about “traffic calming.”

You can’t take anything they say at face value.[/quote]

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