Posts tagged Inclusionary Zoning
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Breakfast links: Wide shoulders
I-66 shoulders could become lanes; Connecticut Ave bad for pedestrians; GSA getting creative; From ballpark to snowball park; Planning for homeless in winter; VRE will leave you behind; DC behind in energy efficiency; Is IZ too complicated?. Keep reading…
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Keep inclusionary zoning housing affordable
Inclusionary zoning, a new affordable housing tool in DC, has a long and successful track record in other (and adjacent) communities to create mixed income housing. However, pockets of resistance to DC’s inclusionary zoning (IZ) law remain. In a recent Washington Post Capital Business commentary, Manna, Inc., a non-profit housing developer and the D.C. Building… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: A difference of opinions
Tyranny of the minorty; Back and forth on parking minimums; Political soap opera; Trading barbs; The road not driven; Ban overboard; Feet in an actual street. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Politics and public input
Standoff in the synagogue; Exclusionary zoning; Rate the road diet; Food truck finality; The next TOD hotspot; Corman in the mirror; Couches on wheels no more. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Wet and muddled
What a storm; No IZ units yet; Communication train wreck continues in slow motion; Will Latino museum be interesting?; Living close to transit is cheaper; Photography legal despite what guards say; And…. Keep reading…
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Vince Gray talks IZ, New Communities, and rent control
At the recent blogger roundtable, Mayoral candidate Vince Gray talked about his goal to unite residents in “One City.” He noted that while DC is currently “very divided by geography, age, gender, and race,” ultimately “people have got to feel like there’s a place for them.” While education, economic development, and workforce… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Coming soon
DC government’s tech innovation; EFC debate underway; Fares too confusing?; Affordable forever?; One teen vs. the generistocracy; Howard Theater, for real?; Followups; Walking and biking around the nation. Keep reading…
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Chapin Street rezoning requested for affordable housing
The owner of the vacant lot at 1412 Chapin St, NW has asked the Zoning Commission to rezone the property for a five-story, 44-unit affordable apartment building because existing zoning forbids one the same size as its neighbors or the one that burned down on that spot in 1996. In addition to the 10% of units under inculsionary zoning that have to go to households making 50-80% of the… Keep reading…
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Howard Town Center racing to hit the low bar
On Monday evening, CastleRock Partners, the development team selected by Howard University after a decades-long back-story for its Howard Town Center project on Georgia Avenue at V Street, presented its concept for the site at a meeting hosted by the Pleasant Plains Civic Association. Keep reading…
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Dinner links: Getting more
Talk and text in Metro stations; Raise our TOD standards; Why don’t more people bike?; Lock ‘em up or build ‘em lanes; Inflating more than the tires; Inclusionary zoning vs just more housing; Parking rules too tough to enforce? Just try anarchy. Keep reading…