Posts tagged Accessory Dwellings
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Breakfast links: Stalled
Silver Spring Transit Center in 2014?; Rockville wants more info on BRT; Movies at Navy Yard?; Accessory apartments more accessible; Hoya Saxa in Clarendon?; Baltimore’s approach to vacant property; And…. Keep reading…
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Endless zoning update delay hurts homeowners
Remember DC’s zoning update? The source of massive public debate last year, and public hearings way back in 2008? It’s still slowly grinding along, but the long delays even on less controversial provisions are making life difficult for actual homeowners today. A friend and her husband recently bought a DC row house for them and their two children. The row house has… Keep reading…
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Candidates want affordable housing, balk at more housing
One of the most significant ways to ensure some affordable housing is to provide more housing. It’s not the only way and not sufficient on its own, but the clear connection between housing supply and price appears lost on multiple candidates for the April 23 DC Council at-large special election. At a Chevy Chase Community Association meeting last week, many candidates… Keep reading…
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Mendelson grills accessory dwelling opponents
After being postponed a day because of the threat of snow, the marathon 7-hour oversight of the Office of Planning almost entirely revolved around the same controversial subject as the last 4-5 years: the zoning update. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson asked tough questions of people on both sides of the issue. At first, he wondered how some people could say the Office of Planning… Keep reading…
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Muriel Bowser unsure on parking minimums, corner stores
Wednesday is the final ward-based community information session for the zoning update, in Ward 4. This is a particularly important one as Councilmember Muriel Bowser seems undecided on, or leaning against, proposals to reduce parking minimums near transit or to permit corner stores in Petworth, and confused about the specifics of the proposal to let homeowners rent out a basement… Keep reading…
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Walkability and garage apartments are not just for the young
Will reducing parking minimums and allowing accessory dwelling units (ADUs) in upper Northwest neighborhoods make living more difficult for seniors? That’s what a number of people argued at the Ward 3 zoning update meeting, but others cited seniors who will directly benefit from more housing, and more affordable housing, near transit. Claudia Phelps wrote on the Chevy… Keep reading…
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Epic Ward 3 zoning update meeting Tuesday night
This Tuesday is a very important day! It’s my birthday. (And Kojo Nnamdi’s.) Also, it’s the zoning update meeting in Ward 3, a ward which houses many of the most strident opponents, but where a great many residents also support growing and more walkable neighborhoods. Can you go to the meeting? You don’t need to know much about the zoning update; it’s… Keep reading…
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Panic! Your alley could have a cute, clean little brick house!
Linda Schmitt, head crusader against DC’s zoning update, just sent out an email warning people about the accessory dwelling proposals: Thought you might want to see what an ADU looks like. Photo provided by DC resident who says six of these are within shouting distance of her house. She is very upset and angry about it. She attached this picture:… Keep reading…
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Go to a zoning update meeting, ask OP to fill in the holes
After a little breather for the holidays, it’s time for DC’s most contentious, important, yet timid public policy proposal to roll forward once more. The public meetings on the zoning update resume this weekend in Columbia Heights, with the biggest clash to follow Tuesday in Tenleytown. Please attend one or more of the meetings this month and let us know which you’ll… Keep reading…
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What’s in the zoning update: Accessory dwellings
Tomorrow is the first public meeting for the DC zoning update. It might also be the most important, as the tenor of the discussion could shape a lot of press coverage. DC residents, are you going? The meeting is Saturday, December 8, 10 am to noon at 1100 4th Street, SW, plus another Tuesday in Penn Quarter and Thursday in Anacostia. In any public process, regardless of the merits,… Keep reading…