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Metro Adopts New Development Guidlines

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COULD THE CHEVERLY STATION on the Orange Line someday become a cool place? Might there be an interesting bar to check out?

While there aren't current plans to dramatically transform Cheverly, at Thursday's Metro Board of Directors meeting, new rules were adopted on how the transit agency will develop land adjacent to its stations.

As The Post's Eric M. Weiss reports:

Too often in the past, board members said yesterday, land around stations was sold mainly to raise cash. The new rules focus on increasing transit-oriented residential and commercial development to encourage Metro ridership and reduce automobile traffic. The Ballston corridor in Arlington and Columbia Heights and Gallery Place-Chinatown in the District are considered examples of successful transit-oriented development.
So who knows, maybe at Branch Avenue station, Metro Place at Town Center will have a Lucky Strike and a Panera Bread nearby! Or not. One step at time.

» "Development Strategy Honed" [WaPo]

EARLIER:
» "You Can Drink Near Van Dorn St., But Not Cheverly" [Free Ride/Express]
» "Metro's Underutilized Resource: Its Real Estate" [Free Ride/Express]

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