Developers are slamming Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett’s newly announced plan to pay for transportation upgrades near the White Flint Metro station, saying taxpayers need to foot more of the bill if the area is to be transformed into a walkable community lined with high-rise condos, shops and restaurants.

Leggett rolled out a funding blueprint that would establish a special tax district for property owners within three-fourths a mile of the White Flint station — excluding existing residential sites — and impose transportation impact taxes on them as well.