Posts tagged Falkland Chase
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Breakfast links: Bringing Metro online
Fix escalators, and federal benefit declining; Metro joins the blogosphere; 100 vs. 539 (and counting); Falkland Chase passes Planning Board; Increase RPP fees?; Merchants decry free parking; Indy privatizes parking meters; PEA Party? Planned enough already; And…. Keep reading…
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Preservation shouldn’t stop future history at Falkland Chase
“Whenever there is a project plan that involves a historic property, designated or not, we will testify against the project,” said Mary Reardon of the Silver Spring Historical Society. It’s not surprising that an organization devoted to preserving the history of Downtown Silver Spring would fight to save historic landmarks. In the case of Falkland Chase,… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: MoSnow and MoCo
More snowy stuff; Forestry above and beyond; Maryland hearing bag bill; Better(-sounding) design for Falkland Chase; Lights, camera, zoning; Lots of bike parking or not that much?; Down in Atlanta. Keep reading…
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Lunch links: New news on old issues
The bag man vs. the bag bill; Eisenhower memorial or Gehry memorial?; Anacostia trolley delayed until 2012?; Sidewalk safety and suburban styling in Silver Spring; HPRB rejects sidewalk cafe, house move; How smart is it?; Ward 7 development latest to ask for parking exception. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Fit and flinty
Your bag needs a workout; Putting your MARC on White Flint; Crowdsourcing your future condo’s shade of green; De-sprawling in Flint; Mini links. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: More pedestrians there, more cars here
Midtown Manhattan’s Broadway to go pedestrian-only: Times Square and Herald Square are some of the nation’s most crowded outdoor spaces. Diagonal Broadway jams up traffic on Sixth and Seventh Avenues, by taking away traffic signal time from the avenues. Yesterday, New York announced an innovative solution Keep reading…
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Weekend reading: Calm during the storm edition
Cornhusker calming in Chevy Chase: Residents are concerned about speeding drivers on Nebraska Avenue just west of Rock Creek Park, reports the Current. DDOT is reconstructing that segment of road, but residents argue the agency didn’t adequately communicate plans while they were in development (a common problem across the city). Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: People aren’t so dumb edition
It might be well past breakfast for you, but thanks to fog in Boston and AirTran’s crappy customer service, I got home at 3 am last night, so it’s breakfast time for me. Keep reading…
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Suburban sensibility in Silver Spring submission
Yesterday, I wrote about the historic preservation fight underway in Silver Spring as a developer seeks to add more housing right near downtown Silver Spring. There’s a strong dose of NIMBYism in the drive to landmark the existing Falkland Chase low-density apartments, but as commenter Dan Reed pointed out, there’s also a strong dose of bad design in the proposed redevelopment. Keep reading…
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Silver Spring taxidermy
Historic preservation can mean a lot of things. To some, it’s about keeping a vibrant, architecturally interesting neighborhood and ensuring pieces of a coherent whole aren’t ripped out indiscriminately. To others, it’s about maintaining a few significant pieces of notable architecture, like an art museum for buildings. And to some, it’s about stopping… Keep reading…