Posts tagged Loudoun
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Breakfast links: Planning places
Happy Birthday, Reston!; Greens fore housing; Landscaping’s good, bad, and ugly; How tomorrow doesn’t move; Feats of strength up next; If biking were a pill…; “Is the dog included?”; Robocop II: Dogwalkercop; Towers rise in London; And…. Keep reading…
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DC population grows more than any other local county
The US Census’ newest county-level population estimates show that between 2012 and 2013, the District of Columbia added more residents than any other metro area county. Loudoun County grew slightly faster by percentage. But even according to that measure, DC is second. County 2012population 2013population Rawgrowth Percentgrowth District of Columbia 633,427 646,449 13,022 2.1 Loudoun… Keep reading…
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Morning bell: Why were charter schools an issue in New York’s mayoral race but not DC’s?
Charters here are a fact of life: None of the mayoral candidates in DC has campaigned against charter schools the way Bill deBlasio did in New York, and one reason is that New York has limited the number of charters. (Sara Mead’s Policy Notebook, Ed Week) DC faulted on low-performing schools: DC’s Office of the State Superintendent of Education hasn’t pressed… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Disrepair
Crumbling roads, but new capacity; Speaking of crumbling roads…; How long for Metro repair?; Height Act bill moves forward; Rosslyn, where the Internet began; DC’s great divide; Underground sex industry declines; Taxi share; Free ride, no deadlines. Keep reading…
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Morning bell: Charter board reverses course on school for at-risk kids
Troubled charter may stay open: After initially seeking to close Options, a school for at-risk students where officials have been charged with self-dealing, the Public Charter School Board now says it will ask DCPS to run the school’s academic programs next year. (Post) DC students eating more free breakfasts: The number of students getting free breakfast has increased… Keep reading…
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Virginia’s unpaved roads bill acknowledges that it’s not all about cars
Virginia legislators are considering a bill that would repair preserve nearly 300 miles of unpaved roads in western Loudoun County. While it may not seem relevant to the state’s urban areas, it would make the state consider more than cars in assessing the needs of a street. HB 416, sponsored by Delegate Randy Minchew (R-Leesburg), requires the Virginia Department of Transportation… Keep reading…
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Virginia General Assembly rolls up its sleeves
Virginia’s 2014 General Assembly is officially in session. As usual, there are plenty of proposed bills that could affect urban areas. Here are some of the key ones to follow. Bills that look promising: SB97, requiring car drivers to leave three feet of clearance when passing a bicyclist. HB761, allowing local governments to hire transit fare inspectors and to… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Where’s the money?
Silver Line Audit; $1.1 trillion winners and losers; Riverfront retail bubble?; Penn Daw gets green light; Our invisible aging infrastructure; Parking wars, teacher safety edition; Picking up your pothole tab; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Go and stop
Automatic train operation coming back?; Putting the brakes on sprawl; New DC Library chief weighs in on MLK; DC gets Trumped; Under their thumb; As goes Lincoln Heights; Trucks and the city; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Correlation is not gentrification
Gentrification by the numbers; Living wage debate restarts; Just tickets for cyclist death; DeBlasio plans to increase housing supply; As base grows, so does Columbia; Loudoun contemplating Silver Line loan; NYC releases safe streets design guide; And…. Keep reading…