NoVa Fan Wrote:
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> But all of our elected officials have FAILED in
> terms of our traffic and transportation mess.
> Every developer who ever built any residential, or
> commercial, or industrial building in Northern
> Virginia should have paid additional impact fees
> at the time of construction so the roads could be
> fixed. Now we have a mess.
This is because Virginia is a Dillon Rule state. Many local governments have tried different ways to get around it but most have ultimately been shot down by Richmond.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dillon_Rule