Posts tagged Anthony Williams
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Breakfast links: Get with the plan
SafeTrack 2.0; Make way for the bus lane; Enough housing?; New Communities success; McMillan Park’s new park; Express extending; Toe tapping for affordable housing. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: New homes and homeless
Housing vs plaza; Maker space and more; Homeless in Georgetown; Metro passes for students; Click for paratransit?; Purple Line details; Rail not welcome; Where Williams works; Crime down; Raiding the wrong house. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bike lanes coming
Next bike lanes; More Metro fallout; No endangered species; A vision, realized; Candidate campaigns on Metro; The wandering museum; We’re driving less; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Let’s chat
Hear from Muriel Bowser today; Hear from David Catania next week; Olympics pro and con; Possible spots to spy; Sprawl repair in Vienna; Not in Georgetown; More historic hill?; Endangered spaces; Bike bits. Keep reading…
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DC grows by 83,000 residents in 10 years
Ten years ago, DC Mayor Anthony Williams famously set a goal of attracting 100,000 new DC residents within a decade. Pundits scoffed, but the latest population estimates show we made it closer than most imagined possible. The official US Census population estimate for DC in 2003 was 563,384. The latest estimate for 2013 is 646,449. That’s an increase of 83,065. In… Keep reading…
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“Neighborhoods are like children. They need attention differently.”
“Gentrification is a word urbanists and people in this area banter about,” said former Mayor Anthony Williams at a panel discussion last night, “but neighborhoods are like children. They need attention differently.” No one size fits all. Williams said residents in Upper Northwest “just want services and not development.” Meanwhile… Keep reading…
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“That’s an old movie”: Mayor Williams defends changing city
The District is changing, as people in their 20s and 30s seek to live in walkable urban neighborhoods their parents and grandparents moved away from. Yet the idea that “everyone” will choose a car-dependent lifestyle, and thus all transportation policy should cater to that lifestyle over all others, still persists. I recently was invited to watch a panel discussion… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Motion like the tide
Anacostia fears tsunami; DDOT moves, but slowly; Barry blames press; Back to work; Costco not winning hearts; Infant mortality improves; Hope from DC’s renaissance; The snarl reaches Brazil; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Get educated
The Henderson plan; When to mix, when to separate; UIP helps, hurts affordable housing; Barracks Row getting more barracks; Pedicab detante solidifies; Williams on top; CSI: Blog; Build a bridge; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Living for the city
DC homicide could be lowest since ‘63; Anthony Williams ‘14?; MBT plans fleshed out; Strip mall to positive mixed-use; Join the RAC; Silver Line still at risk; Britain debates higher speed limits; And… Keep reading…