Posts tagged Historic Preservation
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Breakfast links: Know your history
The day the city burned; The Beltway’s golden; More affordable than we thought?; Historic districts are not the problem; The show will go on; Subway bag check; Scaling up urban farming; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Hot ideas
HOT on I-66?; Transportation showdown; Save the Hoover?; Consensus on the water; Springfield gets its mall back; Buffered bike lanes are better; Driver at fault; Background checks discriminate?. Keep reading…
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Anacostia’s historic homes are on the mend
On Monday, more than a hundred people gathered in front of 2010 14th Street SE to cut the ceremonial ribbon on a new day in old Anacostia. This isn’t the only one; renovation is coming to a half-dozen historic yet decaying homes in the immediate blocks. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Home improvement
Anacostia flips; The right to sunlight?; Obama for statehood; Express Lane predictions; Nixon-era biking; Lanier on bike lanes; How the ramp could look; Positive externalities of cycletracks; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Democracy in action and inaction
Speed cameras all the time; No democracy at Eastern Market; Slow down Maryland Ave; Gas delays green street; Hillandale yellin’ over Yellen guards; Georgetown could lose gas stations; Where do the embassies go?; More tickets in bike lanes; Crashes are deadlier than war; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Home sweet home no more?
Residents could lose homes; Shotgun housing; Unaffordable housing; NoRamp for NoMA?; Need more human enforcement; Parking problems in the future?; Living up to his name; Fund is temporarily trusty again; And…. Keep reading…
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Is a big building “incompatible” with a historic area?
Dupont Circle has a mix of large buildings, medium ones, and smaller rowhouses. If a property owner wants to build something as high as zoning allows, which is lower than some buildings but taller than most, is that “incompatible” with the historic character of the neighborhood? That’s one debate around a proposed project at 18th and Church streets, NW. Keep reading…
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Another historic resource is threatened: parking lots
A group of preservationists in Cincinnati are very worried about a precious historic resource disappearing: surface parking lots in the center city. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: On the rise
Fares. hiked; Study the lane now!; MoveDC draws AAA ire; How to broaden CaBi?; Spies like us; Give tours freely; Mile high transit; Dream of the 1890s; Don’t stop for ducks?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Cross safely
75 years of pedestrian signals; Mostly pedestrian’s fault?; Fast track for Bi-County?; More roads not the answer; Preservation threatens deal; More transit to museum; And…. Keep reading…