Posts tagged Afrh
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Transportation mostly survives DC budget cuts, but planning takes a big hit
DC will continue most of its existing transportation efforts next year under a draft budget released by DC mayor Muriel Bowser. However, unless the DC Council changes the budget, the District will have somewhat less funding for affordable housing programs and won’t plan ahead to ensure well-coordinated development in areas slated for big growth and change. Keep reading…
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Few details emerge on AFRH redevelopment, but the Office of Planning is planning to plan
A presentation shed very little light on what’s in store for 80 acres of the Armed Forces Retirement Home at North Capitol Street and Irving Street in DC, slated for a private mixed-use development. However, a few more facts did emerge about the future of this poorly-planned part of DC. Keep reading…
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Will development at the Armed Forces Retirement Home mesh with the city, or be another planning disaster?
A whole new mixed-use neighborhood may soon arise on a portion of the Armed Forces Retirement Home, the large 272-acre estate off North Capitol Street. Will the new neighborhood become an isolated suburban island, or integrate into the urban fabric of the city? Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: What’s next on I-66?
I-66 plans unveiled; Controlling rent in MoCo; Nope to the NFL; Better bus, no bunching; Another wait on AFRH; EIS-xcellent; Getting started in Arlington; Who takes transit?. Keep reading…
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Even more development may come to North Capitol Street. Will transportation be ready?
A whole new mixed-use neighborhood may soon arise on a portion of the Armed Forces Retirement Home, the large 272-acre estate off North Capitol Street. Will the new neighborhood become an isolated suburban island, or integrate into the urban fabric of the city? Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: You’re fired
Falling Starr; Coming out of retirement; A representative scofflaw; Gentrification in Ward 8; Wells’s environmental vision; An urban state?; Rail smash; More housing for NYC; Google that ride; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: More places to bike
Klingle getting built; CaBi expanding in Arlington; Shovel, Montgomery; Will the stadium community benefit?; Belvoir boom burgeons; Abandoned homes to affordable housing; Transportation answers; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Ward 8 winners
Bike lanes in all 8 wards; Wait, there’s an election?; Housing the homeless; A small moratorium lift; FBI to… AFRH?; Facelift for Upper Marlboro?; Where are the stores?; Filmed in DC?; And…. Keep reading…
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DC has too few dedicated east-west bike pathways
While DC’s bicycling network has grown, there still aren’t a lot of crosstown connections. In fact, there are no protected east-west bicycle routes in the whole third of the District north of Florida Avenue. Cyclists need more of these, as well as north-south routes to form a grid of dedicated paths. Much of DC’s bicycle infrastructure, like trails,… Keep reading…
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Ward 5 needs a vision beyond “no bus/streetcar parking”
Will the Spingarn streetcar barn harm the Benning Road corridor? Would a bus garage on North Capitol damage surrounding neighborhoods? Will mixed use development destroy Brookland? Discussions in DC’s Ward 5 often center around what residents oppose, but what’s really needed is a plan for what they do want. Ward 5, mostly in Northeast DC, has the most industrial… Keep reading…