Posts tagged Height Limit
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Weekend links: As we mature
Growing pains; Such great heights; Better buses; The city as solar heater; WMATA communimucates; A height limit broken; LA bans bags; Monkey business; And…. Keep reading…
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Live chat with Matt Yglesias
Please welcome Matt Yglesias, Slate Moneybox economics blogger, author of The Rent Is Too Damn High, and frequent commentator about how regulations limiting development affect cities. Keep reading…
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The other Schneider: Q Street builder’s murderous brother
No discussion or debate about DC’s Height Act is complete without mention of T.F. Schneider’s Cairo Apartment Building on Q Street NW. The 1894 construction of the gorgeous building was the catalyst for the building height restrictions we know and love today. It is fortuitous for Schneider that the building caused such an impression. He’s lucky that… Keep reading…
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Live chat: Matt Yglesias, Wednesday at noon
Are the very policies intended to sustain neighborhoods and preserve affordable housing paradoxically the same ones pushing rents up and families out to the suburbs? That’s case Slate Moneybox economics writer Matt Yglesias makes in his e-book, The Rent is Too Damn High. On Wednesday at noon, Matt will join us to discuss the book and we hope you’ll help us get things… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The future
They’re (self) driven; Did you bike?; Told you so; Bike messengers are the boss; Higher vs. better; Hatch’s unintended acts; The warriors may serve; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Big days for bikes
Millions and millions; Two wheel Friday; How we move; Stop ugly houses; FoBo finally done; Height limiting; Why part of 14th isn’t changing; No legal takers for storefront; Bet you can get there; And…. Keep reading…
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Morning links: Not going down
Long escalators aren’t worse; Where 5ers stand; Now Capitol Bikeshare, too; Disabled parking abuse rampant; What if… no height limit and crazy architects?; Beauregard a go; More room to eat your jumbo slice; Siding sidelines project; Plan transportation for Fairfax; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Sharing
MD funds bikeshare; Holds now barred; Give up cars; Baltimore’s green line; Protests need permits?; More diamonds diverge; A little goes a long way; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: A city oozing like batter
Stretch taller strategically; Or maybe keep it on the DL; Put some places first; Biking costs cities less and more; Vegas markets places, not neighborhoods; Seattle’s food forest; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Will it get built?
Budget passes, Silver doesn’t; Concrete solutions; Where people bike and carpool; Incomplete passes; Kabuki transportation bill; Money isn’t everything; We want retail; Not in the zone; Last call; And…. Keep reading…