Posts tagged Franklin Square
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Breakfast links: Make it better
Transform Franklin; Baltimore Penn gets its own plan; Metro sequestered; Senate to the rescue; Too many apartments?; Food trucks chafe at rules; Need more than nightlife; And…. Keep reading…
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Funding, partnerships, and rules hamper DC federal parks
On Thursday, residents from all across the city asked the National Park Service to do better for DC, and praised the progress NPS has made this year, at a town hall meeting from Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton. If you didn’t get to attend, you’ll have another chance to talk to park superintendents about DC parks at another event NPS is organizing on November 13. At… Keep reading…
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What are your top issues with federal parkland in DC?
Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton is organizing a town hall to talk about National Park Service-controlled parkland in the District of Columbia on October 25. I’ll be participating on a panel. What issues or requests should I bring up? Norton convened a town hall last year after a coalition of parks advocates and other activists, including myself, called attention… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Shape DC’s future
Live in 5? Vote! (McDuffie!); Budget boosts housing, delays NoMa park; Taxis get better; Bike & Ride opens today; What to do with Franklin; Pepco trims trees; Fly to PDX, SJU, AUS, SFO; Nothing new under the sun; Santa Monica fights meter feeding; Los Angeles grows up. Keep reading…
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Parks, including downtown, get attention and funding
DC’s budget for next year has some great news for fans of parks, including people clamoring for better parks and playgrounds in the growing, and increasingly residential, downtown area. The DC Council Committee on Libraries, Parks, Recreation and Planning, which Tommy Wells chairs, unanimously passed its budget this morning and gave funding to several key priorities,… Keep reading…