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ty housing have not been proven, and even so, such projects can only work in developed areas.
This attitude is prevalent among many New Baltimore residents, who argue that such large-scale planned residential developments have no place in rural Fauquier County.
“I think of it as PRD [planned residential development] envy,” says New Baltimore resident Dennis McMullen. Local planners, he said, rationalize that “just because all these other people have these things, we need one.”
Piedmont Environmental Council’s Jolly deGive said “in theory they’re better than suburban sprawl, but they’re not necessarily all good.”
She said that because such developments are so new, there is no evidence to support the benefits advertised by designers.
Still, the concept has appealed to thousands who are tired of the traditional suburbs, with their bland architecture, cul-de-sacs and confusing layouts.
If there is anything Gaithersburg planners are self-critical about, Wagner said, it’s that “we should have been more in favor of [Kentlands] from the beginning, instead of being reluctant.
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