- Tysons Corner: The new Tysons Corner plan is close! It consumed our time as we worked with planning commissioners, conservation leaders and community members to make sure the plan gets the details right.
- Route 1: Our new Richmond Highway Corridor map and public outreach put us in touch with hundreds of Richmond Highway voters, who shared their thoughts on revitalizing this crucial corridor.
Tysons has the potential to be a great, walkable place with strong transit, improved parks, and other amenities. (Image Credit: PB Placemaking and Tysons Corner Task Force)
2009 Year in Review: Fairfax County
In Fairfax County our efforts have been focused both on the redevelopment of Tysons Corner and the revitalization of the Route 1 corridor. With the arrival of Metrorail’s new Silver line, Tysons Corner can be transformed from a traffic-choked conglomeration of malls into a walkable place based around transit. It is the single most important redevelopment effort in the country. Our efforts last year yielded an important success: the Board of Supervisors’ adoption of the Tysons Corner Task Force Vision Plan. Our work this year has been focused on the details of the implementation language. We have worked with the Planning Commission and our partners at Audubon Naturalist Society, Sierra Club and Fairfax Advocates for Better Bicycling to make sure transit, traffic management, affordable housing, “complete streets” for pedestrians and bicyclists, and stormwater management are included.
We kept Fairfax community members informed on the progress of the Tysons Corner redesign through our popular county-wide email updates, and continue to be a go-to resource for the press on how Tysons could be a model for sustainable redesign of the nation’s sprawling “edge cities.”
We are also working in the Richmond Highway (Route 1) corridor, which has suffered from years of underinvestment. Our vision of a revitalized corridor includes transforming strip malls and parking lots into pedestrian friendly communities with new parks, better stormwater management, and a boulevard design with light rail or bus rapid transit, bicycling facilities and safe sidewalks. To gauge community interest, we took our new map and photos to the polls on November 3rd and asked residents for their feedback. We were met with an enthusiastic response, with hundreds of residents filling out surveys on their priorities for the corridor’s redesign.
Read on to learn what else we've been doing in the region in 2009:
