traveling in buses during peak hours, and will promote

traveling in buses during peak hours, and will promote carpooling. Only 10 percent of employees would travel in single occupancy cars under the plan.

Disney conceded that the last zoning submission did not present anything “dramatically new and different,” as Nottingham put it, but did offer “a new level of specificity.”

The usually-outspoken Disney foes reserved comment temporarily. The Piedmont Environmental CouncU’s Chris Miller said his organization would respond after the Prince William County’s planning staff released an analysis this week.

One of the worst-case scenarios depicted by opponents for the development is of a massive commercialindustrial complex, a Tyson’s Comer on interstate 66. Asked if the height limit and cap on office space development of 630,000 square feet would preclude that level of development, Miller said, “I think that’s exactly what we’re looking at, to see if it’s really limiting them. ”

TTie traffic cap left others unimpressed. Sandy Hillyer, director of the National Growth Management Leadership Project, said that the park will still double traffic flows on 1-66, which is already congested.

“We don’t accept that it would all be counter-rush hour,” Hillyer said. “Along with the frustration factor associated with the park, it will put up more emissions, damaging air quality. And you have to consider what the future costs are going to be to improve [1-66].”

Speaking of the improvements just underway, Hillyer said, “People’s lives aren’t going to get any easier, because Disney’s America is going to absorb and overwhelm those expansions.”

Disney’s Nottingham said he did i not expect the release of detailed plans to appease critics, i

“I don’t think for our opponents there will ever be enough detail,” he said. “They’re not concerned about detail, they’re concerned about the park going someplace else.”