NEAL PEIRCE COLUMN
For Release Sunday, February 17, 2008
© 2008 Washington Post Writers Group
WASHINGTON — A Chesapeake Crescent organization, pushed by business forces and enthusiastically supported by the governors of Maryland and Virginia and the mayor of the nation’s Capital City, has just been announced. It could be a national example of collaboration across city and state lines, tied to 21st century priorities of radical energy savings, compact, transit-accessible development, and a sustainable environment.
There’s no doubt that the initiative marks an amazing shift. Quibbling, tax-base stealing and big job-residence mismatches plagued the National Capital Region of Washington, suburban Northern Virginia and Maryland over the last half of the 20th century. Even the supposedly progressive Clinton Administration failed to lift a finger to push more coherent regional development. Read the rest of this entry »