Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Washington Metro Tussles With Park Lovers Over Townhouse-Construction Plan

(Bloomberg) -- The Washington area's transit authority may have picked the wrong town to joust with.

The agency wants to allow a developer to build townhouses near a subway station used by residents of Takoma Park, a Maryland community bordering the U.S. capital. They're in an uproar because erecting 90 homes on the land in the adjacent Takoma section of Washington would eliminate a park and dozens of trees.


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