Posts tagged Georgetown
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Breakfast links: Is safety the concern?
Dooring still legal; Tough on snow?; MD and VA drivers owe DC big bucks; Community garden or parking?; Getting the vote; Another try for gas station condos; Don’t count on the feds; Third Church coming down; Is Google for distracted driving?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Go multimodal
Route 7 for all; Decking 66; Town of Chevy Chase: it’s on; Meanwhile, a modest proposal; Clearing the CCT; Pothole patrol; A condo in a downward spiral; French railway reparations?; Post picks Bowser; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: A hop, skip, and a jump
A new Hopscotch Bridge; New approach to New Communities; A much bigger Reston; New allies for bikes and peds; Entrepreneurial enterprises; Development downers; Sneckdowns inspire upgrades; And…. Keep reading…
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Most mayoral challengers oppose reducing parking minimums
At a forum last month, four candidates for DC mayor argued against a proposal by the Office of Planning to relax minimum parking requirements in transit-rich areas of the city. Andy Shallal and Tommy Wells didn’t address it directly, though Shallal argued for more parking capacity while Wells argued for reducing parking demand. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Mission Accomplished
Phase One complete; The forgotten trail; A moratorium on the moratorium?; An ICC loyalty program?; Complete streets everywhere?; When gentrifiers become the gentrified; Bikes elevated in Europe; Love is better signage; And…. Keep reading…
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Captain America obliterates Rosslyn and Roosevelt Island
If you’re like me, then you’re probably pretty excited for the next Captain America movie, The Winter Soldier, coming out in April. Set in a reimagined DC, the film has a very different vision of Arlington’s waterfront: Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Regulation
Big-box protections can harm; Follow the regs; What the frack?; Kentlands split over BRT; Pay the fare with your phone; Howze wins the nomination; Will more Dems run as independents?; Cyclists continue riding; And…. Keep reading…
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Besides Metro and a gondola, plan lays out many ways to burnish Georgetown
Georgetown used to be DC’s premier shopping district, but development downtown and in other neighborhoods, coupled with the lack of a Metro station, have made it lose some of its luster. A new “Georgetown 2028” plan lays out strategies to spruce up the neighborhood’s commercial areas. Keep reading…
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Topic of the week: Where we live
Our contributors all roughly share similar views on ways the city could be built and operate, yet we all chose to live in different places across the region. So we asked them, “where do you live, and why did you choose to live there?” Here are some highlights: Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: End opposition
King Street bike battle continues; Gentrification is… good?; DC Water takes a green path; DC tech tied to public sector; Bike lanes boost business; Help shovel for those who can’t; And…. Keep reading…