1. Blueprint for a Better Region
Putting Development In
The Right Places
Coalition for Smarter Growth, Piedmont Environmental Council &
Surface Transportation Policy Project – All Rights Reserved, October 2002

3. Proposed
Outer
Beltway

4. Developed Areas
in 2000
Developed Land
19%
Farm and Forest
74%

5. 2030, Under
Current Trends
800,000 new acres
of Land would be
developed, much of it
in rural areas.

6. School
Home
Store
Recreation
Work

7. Separation of Community Activities:
Where’s the Center in Centreville?
shopping
office
church
homes
homes
homes

8. Separation of Uses Leads to More Driving
Homes
Homes
Offices
Dulles Corridor

9. Reston

10. Beacon Hill
Burke Center
Kingstowne

11. Tyson’s Galleria Mall

12. Merrifield
Richmond Highway

15. A Land Use and
Jobs/Housing Problem
More than a
Transportation Problem

16. Greenbelt

17. Greenbelt

18. SOLUTIONS:
Network of Livable Communities
(1996)
• Urban revitalization and transit-oriented
development with pricing cuts traffic:
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15% reduction in daily vehicle trips
11.5% reduction in vehicle miles traveled
22% reduction in vehicle hours of travel
13% increase in average daily highway speed

19. Metro, MARC & VRE:
114 Stations
More In Planning

20. Reality Check 2005

22. “Reality Check” Event 2005
Allocating 2 Million People/1.6 Million Jobs by 2030
300 People Participated
Common Principles Emerge
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Preserve and Protect open space
Focus development near transit stations
Maintain jobs-housing balance
Concentrate development along
transportation corridors

23. Common Principles Emerge
 Concentrate development
around existing town
centers
 Create mixed use nodes
 Develop east side of region
 Offer more housing choices
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George Vradenburg (philanthropist)
Andrea McGimsey (civic activist and now Loudoun Supervisor
Mayor Williams (former DC Mayor)
Kim Hosen (Prince William Conservation Alliance)

24. Gallery Place

25. ¼ mile
Metro
Station
Gallery Place
1993: Vacant Lots w/Surface Parking

26. First Came The MCI Center
MCI

27. Projects Include
1824 Tariff Building:
Abandoned For Years,
Now a Luxury Hotel
MCI

30. Washington, DC
Gallery Place Development
Lincoln Memorial
US Capitol
1300 acres

31. DC Revitalization Beyond
Downtown
U Street
The Ellington, U Street, Washington, D.C.

32. Tenleytown - Upper Wisconsin Avenue

33. Columbia Heights

34. 14th and U

35. Arlington County, Virginia
• Use Metrorail as catalyst for
redevelopment of
commercial spine of
Arlington
• Concentrate density and
promote mixed use at five
stations; scale development
down to neighborhoods
• Preserve and reinvest in
adjacent residential
neighborhoods

36. 5 Metro Stations
Rosslyn
Courthouse
Clarendon
Va Square
Undisturbed
Ballston
Undisturbed
Undisturbed
Undisturbed

37. ROSSLYN THEN

38. ROSSLYN NOW

40. Ballston

41. 3 blocks from Ballston Metro

42. Clarendon 1980’s

43. Clarendon 2000’s

44. Clarendon Future

45. Clarendon Future (oblique view)

47. Clarendon

48. Redevelopment Results
R-B CORRIDOR 1970
R-B CORRIDOR TODAY
22,000 jobs
94,000 jobs
5.5 million sf office
23.5 million sf office
7,000 housing units
24,500 housing units
More Downtown office space
than Dallas, Denver, Pittsburgh

49. ECONOMIC/FISCAL RESULTS
• Two TOD Corridors = 11% of land area
and 50% of property taxes
•Lowest Property Tax Rate in DC Region
with High Level of Services
•TOD corridor revenues fund parks,
libraries, schools, streets, recreation
centers, and other services in ALL Arlington
neighborhoods

50. Creating Environments Rich In
Travel Choices

51. New Transit Options

52. Car Ownership
120
100
80
Series 1
Series 2
Series 3
60
40
20
0
Category 1Category 2 Category 3 Category 4

53. Transit usage

54. Walk/Bike vs. Drive to Metro
R-B Corridor vs. EFC to Vienna
5 R-B Corridor Stations – 45,733
Weekday Boardings
12.9%
1.0%
4 Suburban Stations – 34,451
Weekday Boardings
2.0%
12.0%
14.6%
Walk
1.7%
3.6%
Walk
Metrobus
Metrobus
7.5%
Other
Bus/Vanpool
9.3%
Auto (incl. Dropoff)
Auto (incl. drop-off)
4.8%
Other
Other
No Response
73.0%
Other Bus/Vanpool
57.6%
No
Response/Unknown

55. Shady Grove

56. King Farm

57. Twinbrook

58. Fairfax County Begins Adopting
Transit-Oriented Development
Vienna
Vienna Metro - 1988

59. Vienna Metro (2003) and ‘MetroWest” site

62. MetroWest Plan at Vienna Metro

63. Tysons Corner

66. Tysons Corner today

68. We Should
Worry About
This Future
for Tyson’s
Corner

69. Tyson’s Corner Today:
The Elements are there. . .
Retail
Condos
Office
Single Family Homes

70. What Tyson’s could be:
A Mixed-Use, Walkable Community

73. Corridor
Revitalization and
Vacant and
Underutilized Land
Survey of 7 Nodes of
Commercial Land and
Parking Lots on Route
1 in Fairfax County
624 Acres
(2 more nodes to the south)
Sarah Cairney August 2005

74. Route 1 -- Beacon Hill
Burke Center
Kingstowne

75. Growth Where it is Needed…
Where There is Space.
King’s Crossing

76. Columbia Pike Community
Urban Design Charette

78. Extensive Public Input

79. Hands on Design

80. Example of One Table’s Plan

81. Sharing Ideas from one Group

82. Designing in public – Planners’
Open Studio as they Craft the Plan

83. Designing in public

84. … and commercial
strips like this…
Reinventing the Commercial
Images Created by Urban Advantage

85. Transforming suburban strips
into mixed
use, walkable, transit-oriented

86. Great Places Begin
with Great Streets

87. Streets
Ample sidewalks for cafes

88. Public
Spacesthe Ballston Metro station
Village green at
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Good public
space offers
benches for
sitting
Combines
hardscape and
green
Closely connects
to
retail, offices, tran
sit

90. Fairfax - Route 1

91. For Their Future

92. And Our Own!
Reston

93. For More Information
Capitol Heights Metro
Stewart Schwartz, Executive Director
Coalition for Smarter Growth
Tel. 202-244-4408
www.smartergrowth.net
Email: stewart@smartergrowth.net
U Street Metro