Posts tagged Harriet Tregoning
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Breakfast links: Happy New Year
A growing city; Charles County sprawlway; The ridership is right; C for yourself; Busted!; Is that multi-state inter-agency cooperation I see?; What’s driving business?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Over, atop, and across the road
Not what they meant by “on Bladensburg Road”; Planners disagree on bridge; What’s excellent?; Bus-and-ride; Hotel ok, still too tall?; Air rights development to cover 395. Keep reading…
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On the calendar: Talk transportation and bike to work
URBANEXUS DC; Discuss the future of transportation; Bike To Work Day; ACT for bikes and peds at the Medical Center; Bike with the Swiss. Keep reading…
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Third Church: Decide another day
Acting as the Mayor’s Agent in deciding whether to allow Third Chuch to raze their Brutalist building, Office of Planning Director Harriet Tregoning granted a request by the DC Preservation League to “continue” the hearing in a month. The Preservation League just received Third Church’s financial information on Friday, and argued that they hadn’t… Keep reading…
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Marc: no need to parc
I was planning to write a bunch of thoughts about Marc Fisher’s tantalizing-sounding “Don’t Build Parking, And They’ll Come” article when it came out today. But he says everything I would have, so just go read it. Fisher interviews Harriet Tregoning, who cites the many underutilized garages in new development including at the new Harris Teeter,… Keep reading…
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Cheh, Wells, Fisher on car-freedom
Marc Fisher spoke to Councilmembers Mary Cheh and Tommy Wells at last week’s Car-Free Day. Fisher relays anecdotes about Harriet Tregoning converting her free office parking space into bike parking, and about Marion Barry moving Tommy Wells’ bike to take one of the parking spaces at the Wilson building. Keep reading…
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Council race coverage roundup
Lots of new coverage of the Council races. Keep reading…
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A busy day for NCPC
This morning, the National Capital Planning Commission (the federal government’s planning body for the DC area) released a great proposal for the future of the Federal area of the city. It calls for decking over not only the E Street Expressway but almost all of the “ramp spaghetti”, creating space for new buildings east and northeast or the Kennedy Center and… Keep reading…
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Right on, Harriet Tregoning!
When I moved to DC, many people asked how I could possibly like DC as much as New York. Certainly DC has a few flaws (we need more transit, for example). But DC is terrific in many ways, and on Smart Growth, the DC government is light years more progressive. Just look at this comment by Harriet Tregoning, DC’s head of planning, last night at the Dupont Circle Citizens Association:We… Keep reading…