Planner: Chevy Chase project would add traffic to Connecticut Ave.

Traffic on Connecticut Avenue, already gridlocked during rush hour, could get worse if a proposed development at Chevy Chase Lake, just south of the Capital Beltway, is approved.

The proposed project would redevelop the current area, which sits on Connecticut Avenue between Jones Bridge Road and East-West Highway, with Rock Creek Park to the east and Columbia Country Club to the west. With residential and retail spaces in the proposed redevelopment, the amount of new traffic would flood the already congested area, planner Elza Hisel-McCoy said.