If they upgrade the roads to accommodate three to ten times the traffic, they have defeated their core objective of eliminating carbon fuel pollution. The community planners who held the meeting at Wright Denny further mentioned the Smart Growth planning going on in Loudon County, and spoke of it as a positive plan that was welcomed by those living in that area. It is not. Almost overnight several grassroots organizations formed to fight it. The cooperation the planners hoped to gain did not materialize.
Resistance grows daily.
Lawsuits are already being filed, and massive fund raising efforts are underway to pay for very expensive legal and technical advise. Most of those who have invested hundreds of thousands of dollars for their homes in rural Loudon County did so to escape the congestion in the eastern part of the county. Now they see the same thing happening to them that happened in Auburn, Sterling and Tysons Corners. All of those areas are planned communities. Commercial developers who sell not only the homesites and the homes, but the commercial development which follows.