Posts tagged Historic Preservation
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Breakfast links: Nothing in life is free
Germantown parking district; Valet park for class?; Not so brotherly on TV; “Panhandling meters”; Dupont row house saved!; You get what you pay for, but safer anyway; The unusual vs. the mundane; Federal safety grants?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Today in buildings
If you don’t like your historic building, let it fall down?; You say “of its time,” I say “faux modernism”; Making the FBI building work; Good plan, bad design for Walgreens?; Hotel isn’t more important than everything else; Purple Line beats opponents, highways at TPB; And…. Keep reading…
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Afternoon Links: University vs. Residents
GUTS, or just GALL? The Georgetown ANC is demanding that Georgetown University stop running most of its GUTS shuttles on Georgetown streets, except on traffic-choked Canal Road and M Street. In particular, buses on Reservoir Road, a four-lane arterial, have drawn the ire of the Commission, with some residents complaining that the buses are “wreaking havoc on… Keep reading…
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They’re not historic, but shouldn’t be a parking lot
The first post on Greater Greater Washington about historic preservation that didn’t deal with Third Church dates to March 10, 2008, and bears the title, “Historic preservation: a blunt instrument for design review.” Today, the historic preservation process remains a very blunt instrument for design review, and an even more blunt instrument for use regulation. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Withdrawal symptoms
Performance Diet Coke-ing; Delusional parkers; Cars and graves only; Ode to concrete; Sprawl harms our health; Post says “don’t stop”; Will Americans break the addiction?; And. Keep reading…
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Third Church demolition order requires church to stay
Yesterday, Office of Planning Director Harriet Tregoning, acting as the Mayor’s Agent in the Third Church of Christ, Scientist case, gave the church permission to replace their Brutalist building with a new structure. The widely-expected decision should now make dangerous First Amendment litigation moot. But it also contains several conditions that should also forestall… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Old news and new news
More bikes on and around trains; Screen not on the Green; Mies box or transit stop?; Few MoCo employees using car-sharing, yet; Press article uses active verb for crash!; Bus stop answers. Keep reading…
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Dinner links: New on the scene
Riding the Metro for the first time; This video could help; Chevy Chase candidates differ on fighting Purple Line; Take a left onto Bike Interstate 101; Specter used to be a bike messenger; Navarro wins primary; Jobs the anti-preservationist; Detroit depot as federal offices?. Keep reading…