Posts tagged Hprb
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Breakfast links: Big votes on money
What’s in the DC budget?; Fares hike may be approved today; Motivated seller; N Street eclipse; How you talk about it matters; And…; Up in Maryland; In the west. Keep reading…
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NCPC worries about viewsheds in waterfront development
Thrusday’s National Capital Planning Commission meeting will consider a project along the Anacostia waterfront between the 11th Street bridges and the CSX railroad. Staff have objected to closing parts of “paper street” segments of Virginia Avenue, M Street, and 14th Street, SE. The project, at 1333 M Street, SE, would build a large hotel and office building… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Looking to history
Historic Walter Reed; Independence from B Street; Do you know?; Year of Sustainability; 5 mph less, 40% fewer deaths; And…; Thanks, Stephen!. Keep reading…
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Are you an architectural historian?
DC needs an architectural historian to serve on the Historic Preservation Review Board. John Vlach’s term has expired, and while he’s offered to remain on the board, Mayor Fenty nominated someone else, Christopher Landis, to replace Vlach. However, while he has architectural training who works on historic buildings, Landis is not an architectural historian. 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: Flexibility and inflexibility in ideas and leaders
Bendy trains?; More loading zones?; One County Executive cuts bicycling; Another beefs up pedestrian safety; Stop the free tickets for elected officials; New nominees for HPRB, Zoning Commission; And lots more news; Riders object to service cuts. Keep reading…
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Lunch links: New news on old issues
The bag man vs. the bag bill; Eisenhower memorial or Gehry memorial?; Anacostia trolley delayed until 2012?; Sidewalk safety and suburban styling in Silver Spring; HPRB rejects sidewalk cafe, house move; How smart is it?; Ward 7 development latest to ask for parking exception. Keep reading…
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“Too big” isn’t a historic argument
What’s “historic”? The debate over what does and does not count as “historic” pervades most preservation controversies. The national criteria for deeming something historic are very broad. That’s helpful for preserving the truly historic, but people opposed to the destruction of nearly any structure can make an argument that it’s… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: More pedestrians there, more cars here
Midtown Manhattan’s Broadway to go pedestrian-only: Times Square and Herald Square are some of the nation’s most crowded outdoor spaces. Diagonal Broadway jams up traffic on Sixth and Seventh Avenues, by taking away traffic signal time from the avenues. Yesterday, New York announced an innovative solution Keep reading…
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Revised Whitman-Walker plans cruising toward approval
After making a few revisions in response to neighbor and historic preservation concerns, the proposed residential development with ground-floor retail on 14th Street between S and Swann is solidly on track for approval. The project retains the historically contributing, former Whitman-Walker Clinic building at the corner of 14th and S, and replaces the other one-story structures… Keep reading…