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Better Together: Land Use & Transportation Planning

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The connections between land use and transportation are getting a lot of attention in Virginia’s smart growth forums. Sounds like good news, but is it just more chatter or could it signal a step in the right direction?

In 2006 the General Assembly took action and unanimously approved VDOT’s Traffic Impact Analysis Regulations, which say that traffic impacts should be assessed before new residential densities are added to Comprehensive Plans or approved through zoning changes. Read the rest of this entry »

Written by khosen

June 29, 2008 at 11:53 pm