Posts tagged Affordable Housing
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Breakfast links: Getting built, getting rented
Not enough housing!; Higher vacant property charges?; War and Peaceoholics; In the courts; Tough streets; DIY complete street; Manhattan agrees not to overbuild parking. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Big links on big stories
RIP Constance Holden; Outcry smashing ARTS overlay cap; Gaithersbargain wins straw poll; Not all Loudoun roads need to be 8 lanes; Pulitzer for distracted driving reporting; And…; Development dispatches. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Happy birthday, but don’t sing
Happy birthday Metro!; High spirits not allowed in the Capitol; Now Dr. Gridlock-Metrocrowd-Busysidewalk?; Fairfax rallying against Connector cuts; DHS needs even more space; 3 Ike towers in Alexandria?; Pike art. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Connect the lines
RI Ave Metro to be connected; Do zig-zags work?; Crash; One step closer to Potomac Yard; Greenbelt Station stationary; Parking lease blocking the gate; People fight infill everywhere; Mode equality = catastrophe?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Safer and more affordable
Hit, kill, run; Cycle tracks in College Park?; Affordable housing activity; Off the job for 9 years, come back, derail a train; MV Square market unpermitted, but should be permissible?; After the flood; How are Kenyan riots like the snowpocalypse?. Keep reading…
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Afternoon links: So many events and links, so little time
Next American Party; Channel 4 blames the pedestrians; Why does government hate cities?; Broad Run garage a white elephant?; Perkins’ parking picks; Sprawler to run planning?; Rent control for Montgomery?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Unexpected sight
No pants!; They’ll never know; Open the doors!; Congestion fares; No free bags at Wal-Mart; No new parking, says Baltimore; Make Rockville affordable; Walkability is money. Keep reading…
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Chapin Street rezoning requested for affordable housing
The owner of the vacant lot at 1412 Chapin St, NW has asked the Zoning Commission to rezone the property for a five-story, 44-unit affordable apartment building because existing zoning forbids one the same size as its neighbors or the one that burned down on that spot in 1996. In addition to the 10% of units under inculsionary zoning that have to go to households making 50-80% of the… Keep reading…
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Rockville votes for change: no change
While most of the attention leading up to last week’s election focused on the Virginia governor’s race, the elections in Rockville carried major repercussions for that city’s growth. Or rather, the city’s lack of growth, as voters brought in a mayor and new Councilmembers opposed to growth. Keep reading…
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Why Montgomery’s affordable housing “dumping ground” could use even more
Since the 1970s, Montgomery County has required developers to set aside a percentage of new homes for their Moderately Priced Dwelling Unit (MPDU) program. Nevertheless, affluent Bethesda and Potomac have fought MPDUs, resulting in a concentration of subsidized units elsewhere in the County. Today, a quarter of the county’s MPDUs are located in Germantown, while another… Keep reading…