Posts tagged Shaw
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Shaw getting new pocket park
DC is turning a vacant lot on 10th Street in Shaw into a small park. While DC has 7,847 acres of parkland, almost 80% of that is in the few, very large parks such as the Mall, Rock Creek, Anacostia Park, and the large forts in River East. Plus, highway ramps such as the GW Parkway near the Memorial Bridge and the parking lots around RFK Stadium count as parks. Most residents of DC aren’t… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Do it yourself, not the old way
Design your own Oregon Metro; Silly, confusing and a waste of space; Rejected for being “too historic”; The Pullman Porters; Lewis: Cul-de-sacs aren’t safer; Overseeing bicycling; “Mystery rider” program reveals problems, may be cut. Keep reading…
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Ensuring retail and residential diversity in zoning
The DC Office of Planning routinely posts their reports on zoning variance requests. This week, they recommended against approving two requests concerning tricky zoning issues: multifamily conversions and corner stores. Many neighborhoods have numerous townhouses divided into multiple apartments, and many have corner stores in residential districts. Creating new ones,… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Unexpected consequences
Save the trail, prevent other trails: Creators of the Capital Crescent Trail always intended it to run along with transit. A bike trail was a good immediate use of a temporarily unused transit ROW. Now that Montgomery residents opposed to transit are opposing the Purple Line because of the trail, one original trail planner regrets creating it in the first place. And, WashCycle explains,… Keep reading…
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Who is Peter May, and why is the National Park Service anti-urban?
It would seem logical that a representative of the National Park Service would support sustainable, eco-friendly development. Of course, the National Park Service frequently confounds logic when it comes to traffic, parking and development, such as when they prevented WMATA from building Farragut North and Farragut West closer together as a transfer station, their opposition… Keep reading…
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Dinner links: bikes, bikinis and boorish modernists
First bike sharing, now tricycle sharing: No, it’s not a program to teach kindergarteners to share their toys. A San Francisco bike shop launched a trike-sharing program for adult-size tricycles, which can carry a lot more cargo than bikes. North Beach residents are using them for errands like trips to the local Trader Joe’s. Tip: Ben T. Keep reading…
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Weekend reading: Up and down the Green Line edition
First stop Columbia Heights: Today is Columbia Heights Day, featuring local music, food, family activities, a bike ride and more. Keep reading…
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Library victory in Shaw, Brooklanders still fighting for trees
In 2004, DC closed the the Watha T. Daniel library in Shaw and several other libraries, to replace the aging buildings with new, modern facilities. Though the interior drew some criticism, neighbors widely praised the open, airy glass design as a huge improvement over the prison-like, concrete, Brutalist original library. Keep reading…