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Article: Developers envision a mixed-use future; Looser rules needed to create walkable commercial-residential centers, county leaders are told
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- October 29, 2009
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Walkable town center communities are the way to bring growth to
Prince William County, entrepreneurs and developers say, but there
needs to be less bureaucratic oversight if they are going to be a
success.
On Oct. 21, more than 50 representatives from the business and
development community addressed the Prince William Board of County
Supervisors at a comprehensive plan town hall meeting. The goal,
supervisors said, was to hear changes that need to be made to the
transportation and land-use chapters of the plan to make developers
and businesses choose Prince William as their home.
"I think this might be the beginning of a new Prince William in
terms of economic growth," board Chairman Corey ...