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EXPECT MONTGOMERY COUNTY'S transit corridors to get a lot more crowded in the coming years: The county council last week approved new planning rules to encourage development in places already served by public transportation.

That means Bethesda, Silver Spring, Wheaton and Metrorail stations in the Rockville Pike corridor will likely see more dense development as the decades wear on.

Reports The Post's Miranda S. Spivack:

In the next 20 years, Montgomery faces several challenges as it tries to absorb the expected arrival of thousands of new residents and jobs already approved and plans for the proposed expansion of the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda. And the open land available for development is almost used up.
Taxes on new construction in the county will increase from 70 percent to 125 percent, depending on the location and type of development.

» "New Montgomery Growth Policy Formalizes Focus on Public Transit" [WaPo]

Posted by Michael Grass at 8:57 AM on November 19, 2007
Tagged in Bethesda , Free Ride , Grosvenor , Maryland , Montgomery County , News , Real Estate , Rockville , Silver Spring , Top Stories , Transit , Twinbrook , Wheaton , White Flint
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