Posts tagged Georgetown
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Just propose a Federal style store already, Apple
Georgetown’s ANC and the Old Georgetown Board, the special historic preservation review body for Georgetown, recently rejected Apple’s proposed design for a store on Wisconsin Avenue. The Current reported on it last week, and yesterday City Paper exposed the story to the Web, prompting more coverage in the tech press. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Actions for transit
MoCo planning staff endorse light rail: Reports of Planning Board staff endorsing a bus Purple Line have been greatly exaggerated. A staff report released yesterday endorses the surface light rail option, including the segment parallel to the Capital Crescent Trail. “We have to grow, and we have to do it in a way that is sustainable … in a reasonable way that is less dependent… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: How to get to Pennsylvania Avenue
By whistlestop railroad tour: President-elect Obama will get on a train after a rally in Philadelphia, meet Joe Biden for a rally in Wilmington, then stop in Baltimore before continuing to DC. Keep reading…
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Change car parking to bike parking, suggests Georgetown bike shop
According to this week’s Current (article, continuation), the CycleLife bike shop on K Street in Georgetown has suggested replacing two on-street parking spaces (holding one car each) with bike racks (holding about 20 bikes each). There isn’t enough space on that sidewalk for bike racks. Keep reading…
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KISS our buses
WMATA is comprehensively reviewing many of its bus lines, such as the S1/2/4 lines on 16th. They recently announced another round of reviews including the very complex D1/2/3/4/5/6 buses. Keep reading…
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Parking minimums irrelevant to Georgetown waterfront
At the Zoning Commission hearing on parking minimums a month ago, opponents of parking reform argued that removing minimums would cause widespread chaos. Barbara Zartman, of the Committee of 100, used her neighborhood of Georgetown as an example of a neighborhood built without minimums. She was trying to argue that Georgetown’s traffic and parking difficulties were a consequence… Keep reading…
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MPD not interested in investigating cyclist intimidation
WashCycle relays an incident where a locksmith van driver ran two cyclists off the road in Georgetown. It seems the driver was unhappy that the two, Nat Wilson and another unrelated cyclist, were taking the lane (which is completely legal). Keep reading…
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How does the drinking age affect community?
UMD College Park President C.D. Mote Jr. has joined the growing chorus of college presidents who support returning the drinking age to 18, DCist reports. I agree with this, both because it’s rational public policy (it will probably reduce binge drinking) and because having an arbitrary line you cross in the middle of college (rather than before or after) is silly and unfair. Keep reading…
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Plus ça change, NIMBYs
Yesterday I discussed Safeway’s plans to rebuild the Georgetown (“Social”) Safeway from a suburban style with a parking lot in front into an urban style fronting the sidewalk and (too much) parking behind. Transbay Blog has similar story from the West Coast from the Safeway in the Rockridge area of Oakland, California. There’s the same terrible suburban… Keep reading…
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From Social Safeway to Sidewalk Safeway
Georgetown’s “Social Safeway” is interested in mending its pedestrian-unfriendly, suburban-styling ways. According to the hard-to-link-to Dupont Current (part one and two of the article), Safeway is looking to replace its one-story market that’s behind a large parking lot with a two-story building at the sidewalk’s edge. The first floor… Keep reading…