Posts tagged Hprb
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Weekend links: Not again
Metro brake breaks again; WMATA board all shook up; HPRB almost an empty board; Steal early, steal often; Battle for succession; Some gin with your zoning; Hawaii train on track; Development is harder than it looks. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Urban features come to Montgomery
Streetcar to Silver Spring?; Berliner against anti-urban Walmarts; Mall owner prefers a town instead; Jobs outstrip housing; Parking meter aesthetics matter; HPRB nominees: 6 months later, no changes; Food stamps down in DC, up in MD, VA; WMATA questions 14-hour workdays; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The new big thing
More signs for Chinatown?; DC getting a new tunnel; GM backpedals on anti-cyclist ad; New leader discovers MoCo problems; COG opposes airports takeover; DC eschews Superfund’s toxic stigma; Treehouse of horrors; Historic preservation a “black box”?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: What you can’t have
Chinatown development scaled down… again; Parking permit exclusion among new bills; MoCo goes for mixed-use; Lawn mowing contract creates buzz; Why a fee shifting bill for cyclists?; Misspelled signs vanish quickly; Bikeshare-style car sharing launches in Paris; And…. Keep reading…
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Historic Preservation Review Board vacancies go unfilled
On July 28th, for the first time in nearly two decades, DC’s Historic Preservation Review Board failed to achieve a quorum, and couldn’t hear several cases during its afternoon session. The board had to postpone two cases to another meeting for the following week. Preservationists feel the administration has been inattentive to the importance of making appointments… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Preserving history
Local vs. national on the Mall; Are chain link fences historic?; 10-20 fewer people will get to live on 14th Street; Questionable campaign finance practices; Another departure at elections board; Feds won’t pay for parking yet; All Hands in jeopardy; Gray defends bond tax veto; And…. Keep reading…
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More residents won’t make Wallach or U Street like Ballston
Despite support from the neighborhood ANC and historic staff, the Historic Preservation Review Board last month rejected designs for a 6-story building along the east side of 14th Street, agreeing with some neighbors who have organized to fight the proposal. Keep reading…
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Historic board stands up to mid-rise opposition
DC’s Historic Preservation Review Board approved concept plans for the Hine project on Capitol Hill last month, making a clear statement that while they’ll push to improve the quality of development, they’re not going to bow to neighbors’ demands to substantially shrink it down. Historic review can greatly improve many development projects. Keep reading…
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Our public input processes are “flawed”
Public bodies from the DC Council to boards like the Zoning Commission are configured to value most highly input from people who show up in person. But this excludes many people with day jobs or family responsibilities. We need to fundamentally reexamine some basic assumptions about public input. At last week’s redistricting hearing, Marion Barry criticized me for bringing… Keep reading…
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Anti-height frenzy dominates preservation meeting on Hine
A few Capitol Hill residents gave long and sometimes angry speeches yesterday against allowing mid-rise buildings at the Eastern Market Metro at a hearing before the Historic Preservation Review Board yesterday. But the Historic Preservation Review Board avoided letting height hostility co-opt historic preservation, and instead adopted The Historic Preservation Review… Keep reading…