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From YouTube: Arlington's Smart Growth
Description
Arlington County's Transit Oriented Development over the last 40 years is explained in this 11min video. Planner, Bob Brosnan, takes us on a journey from the post war visionary leaders, who laid Arlingtons award winning foundations, to a streetcar future. Brosnan gives a concise definition of Arlingtons Smart Growth, its benefits, and where that growth is headed.
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Arlington
came
up
with
a
vision
that
vision
was
the
focus
growth
in
about
11%
of
the
county,
two
corridors
to
focus
high
density,
mixed
use,
development
within
a
quarter
mile
of
the
two
metro
systems
to
preserve
the
remaining
89%
of
the
county
between
single-family
garden
apartments,
and
this
is
the
open
space
that
was
out
there
and
then
to
define
hard
edges
to
this
existing
single-family
areas
for
the
most
part
that
we're
on
either
side
of
the
corridors
and
then
to
provide
transitions
to
those.
We
set
a
land-use
plan
in
place.
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So
it's
not
to
say
that
there
aren't
impacts
and
some
tension
on
those
edges.
That
is
one
of
the
issues
we
deal
with
on
a
day
to
day
basis,
but
those
edges
have
have
been
maintained
and
I.
Think
that's
because
we
put
the
vision
in
place.
We've
stuck
to
it.
We've
had
consistent
political
will
to
hold
those
lines.
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Development
always
has
issues
associated
I
would
say
that
focus
on
Smart
Growth
is
actually
a
focus
on
trying
to
minimize
or
manage
those
issues.
The
tensions
that
we
see
in
Arlington
are
not
so
much
the
result
of
Smart
Growth
as
they
are
the
result
of
growth
at
all
and
I
would
say
that
most
of
the
challenges
we
face
would
be
worse.
If
we
hadn't
focused
development,
where
we've
developed.
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We've
been
able
to
avoid
being
choked
by
traffic
Arlington
is
between
Fairfax
County,
which
has
1.1
million
people
living
in
it,
and
one
of
the
larger
counties
in
the
United
States
and
the
district
company.
So
people
are
traveling
through
arlington
lot,
both
by
transit,
but
also
by
automobiles.
We
are
really
part
of
the
the
region's
urban
core.
We
are
at
the
foot
of
three
main
bridges
into
the
District
of
Columbia
regional
traffic.
If
you
will
will
continue
to
grow
and
where
that
goes
will
be
a
fundamental
issue
for
our
own
I.
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Think
Arlington
has
the
the
planning
in
place
to
address
that.
We've
also
got
programs
in
place
to
address
that
we
have
neighborhood
traffic.
Calming
programs
which
I
would
say
are
focused
as
much
on
on
keeping
the
regional
traffic
out
as
they
are.
The
local
traffic
out
so
I
think
the
regional
traffic
is.
The
issues
are.
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It's
not
just
about
Metro.
We
have
really
developed
a
transportation
system,
not
a
commuter
rail
system.
We
have
a
lot
of
options
that
are
available
to
people
and
I.
Think
that's
what
that's!
What
really
helps
in
terms
of
local
transportation.
It's
walking
biking,
car
sharing,
art
bus
metro
system.
Those
are
those
are
things
that
we've
continued
to
do
now,
we're
looking
at
streetcars
in
Crystal
City
and
on
Columbia
Pike,
so
I
think
the
expansion
of
our
transportation
options
has
is
another
place
where
we've
evolved.
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The
one
of
our
goals
of
our
early
planning
was
to
emphasize
transit
over
roads
and
arlington
has
fought
for
that
for
a
long
time
and
we've
been
very
successful,
we
have
changed.
Behaviors
people,
don't
bring
cars
with
them
or
willing
to
have
one
car
versus
two
19
percent
of
the
people
who
live
in
the
rosin
volson
carter
owned
two
no
cars,
39
percent
of
those
people
who
live
in
the
rosin
Boston
car
to
take
transit
to
work.
So
that's
a
lot
of
people
that
aren't
in
cars
aren't
congested
in
our
streets.
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The
edges
will
always
be
an
issue
both
from
where
are
the
edges
and
a
constant
concern
about
the
edges
creeping,
but
life
at
the
edges
can
be
a
little
messy
too,
and
we
we
try
to
manage
that
as
well,
but
there's
a
lot
of
restaurants,
a
lot
of
live
entertainment,
a
lot
of
things
that
people
want
to
partake
in
in
our
development
corridors.
Yet
the
bleeding
over
of
the
impacts
of
that
into
the
neighborhoods
are
an
issue
to
be
managed
and
I.
Think
that
is
one
of
our
challenges.
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There
is
no
doubt
that
growth
brings
about
construction
related
issues
and
that's
something
I
hear
about
you
know
pretty
much
all
the
time.
That's
temporary,
but
there
are
issues
with
that.
Affordable
housing
is,
is
a
very
big
issue.
I
think
it's
the
same
with
affordable
local
retail.
We
have
high
density
fairly
high,
expensive
development
corridors.
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We've
got
rings
of
single-family
neighborhoods,
ranging
from
very
large
expensive
units
to
smaller
expensive
units,
and
then
we
have
a
wide
array
of
garden
apartments
that
provide
our
affordable
housing
and
rental
housing
opportunities.
Those
are
I
think
the
future
of
our
kind
of
challenges
that
we
face.
If
you
will
is
how
do
we
protect
those?
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Open-Space
I
think
we
didn't
do
a
very
good
job
on
anticipating
our
open
space
and
our
active
recreation.
I
think
we
haven't
done
in
the
past
as
good
a
job
as
we
should
have
and
in
anticipation
of
what
our
recreation
needs
are,
so
that
that's
something
that
I
think
was
not
in
a
success
checkbox.
If
you
will.
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The
first
plan
effort
on
Columbia
Pike
was
to
look
at
the
commercial
corridors
and
we
carefully
carved
out
the
garden
apartment
communities
now
we're
looking
at
the
garden
apartment
communities
with
the
coming
of
the
of
the
light
rail
to
say.
Okay,
what
do
we
want
to
have
happen
there?
What
is
our
vision
for
the
future,
and
how
can
we
affect
this?
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Rozlyn
is
just
starting
to
be
redeveloped
as
we
speak,
we
are
doing
a
plan
for
Crystal
Cities
regeneration,
so
I
think
that
it
will
continue
to
evolve.
I
think
that
the
40-year
history
of
Arlington's
Smart
Growth
focus
has
if
it's
shown
one
thing:
it's
shown
that
we
are
consistent
and
that
our
elected
officials
don't
make
major
changes
in
our
underlying
philosophy,
so
I
wouldn't
anticipate
that
I
would
think
that
we
would
continue
along
that
path.
One
of
the
things
that
I'm
kind
of
happiest
about.