Controlling Growth In Virginia

"While Northern Virginia has been building and booming into its farthest rural reaches in the last decade, the environmental council has been the voice shouting into the wind to curb growth, stop replacing the countryside with subdivisions and strip malls and center construction on public transit.On Tuesday, when the tax was rejected by a resounding 55 percent margin, many voters said no for those same reasons... Miller said he believes that developers who want to build houses in the hinterlands should pay for the roads, schools and other services those houses require. Ideally, however, he would prefer to see development rely on public transit, following the Arlington model of intense commercial, residential and retail around Metro stops."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan