Posts tagged Montgomery County
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Rockville, Gaithersburg races involve transit and growth
Voters in Rockville and Gaithersburg will choose at-large members of their city councils tomorrow. The choices voters make could affect how much these cities encourage and welcome development around transit and transit around existing development. Rockville has several councilmembers, including Mayor Phyllis Marcuccio, who rode into office 2 years ago on a platform partly… Keep reading…
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Different housing types can mix if designed propertly
Neighbors of Chelsea Court, a proposed townhouse development at the site of the former Chelsea School outside downtown Silver Spring complain it’s too dense for a neighborhood of single-family homes, and last month, the County Council agreed. But why can’t different housing types coexist? Local developer EYA bought the Chelsea School’s campus in May… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bumper weekend
Driver strikes 3 protestors… intentionally?; WMATA wants to break radio silence; Borrowing is the new stealing?; Attend a town hall by hashtag; Gentrification, or more diversity?; DC Democrats become less democratic; RI Ave ped/bike bridge moving forward; And…. Keep reading…
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Wedges & Corridors: The country’s first sustainable growth plan?
The biggest determinant for carrying the Wedges & Corridors vision into the future is land. We are not making any more of it and, in fact, we have restricted its availability by placing a growth boundary, the Ag Reserve, around the top third of the County. Keep reading…
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Tunnel vision threatens the Capital Crescent Trail in Bethesda
While fighting hard for the full, timely build-out of the Purple Line, advocates of greater and greener mobility in our region also must work to save the tunnel alignment of the Capital Crescent Trail (CCT) through downtown Bethesda, which is key to making bicycling there safe and attractive for the long term. The Montgomery County Planning Board is seriously considering recommending… Keep reading…
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Montgomery may be diverse, but it’s not integrated yet
Last year, Montgomery County became majority-minority for the first time. But neighborhoods there aren’t as integrated as they could be, threatening the county’s ability to grow and prosper. An article in Sunday’s Washington Post highlighted newly-diverse suburban neighborhoods across the United States, focusing on the Hillandale neighborhood… Keep reading…
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Ride On piloting real-time bus tracking
Bus riders in Montgomery County can start trying to track their Ride On buses with a new real-time system the county is piloting. However, the system still lacks a public API that would allow developers to use the data in other applications. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Boo[ndoggles]
Shootings mar Halloween; TE “boondoggles” never got funded; Evans’ firm represented hotel partner; 3 years to MoCo BRT?; Metro ridership going down; New Tourmobile now, Circulator later; Tenants purchase building after fight; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Time to start planning for growth
Washington will grow no matter what; Money talks; Tysons Corner does its part; Repubs demand more spending; Cross the virtual tunnel; Trail costs jump; Shout it from the treetops; Movie popcorn gets even more expensive; And…. Keep reading…
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Station name debate focuses too little on helping riders
If you listened to the WMATA Board discuss station names this morning, you could be forgiven if you concluded the board is made up of representatives from local universities, hospitals, and sports teams, and that those institutions, rather than riders and residents, pay for Metro. That’s because where institutions want to be on Metro station names, most members from… Keep reading…