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Rogers. Fringe growth accounted for 58 per cent of total metropolitan area growth during the same period, she added.
“You are getting a lot of bedroom, suburban type of growth,” Rogers maintained, noting that 70 per cent of population increase in the fringe counties resulted from outward migration while commuting from fringe counties to COG’s area of jurisdiction had skyrocketed with a 173 per cent increase. She added that fringe counties had also had a 300 per cent increase in construction activity between 1970 and 1975.
Lower housing costs, a continuing preference for low density living, improved transportation with Interstate 66, decentralization of employment to outside the beltway and Washington’s sewer moratorium all combined to “create growth in your back yard,” Rogers told the Commissioners.
This type of growth is not consistent with COG’s policy, she noted, and will result eventually in violations of federal air and water quality standards. Problems with controlling non-point pollution of water supplies will increase because of this dispersed development pattern, Rogers predicted.
Housing industry in the metropolitan Washington area will not be able to meet the demands of even conservative estimates on future growth forecasts for 1990,
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