Posts tagged Ncpc
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Breakfast links: Transit power
Another MARC screwup; Overhead wires approved by Council; Let me out!; Unsuck DC Metro riders; Very early fare hike news; Gray for Smart Growth, not bike lanes?; LaHood the superstar. Keep reading…
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NCPC Chair Bryant asks FTA to deny streetcar grant to DC
Is expanding the power of a federal panel more important than transit and economic development in the District of Columbia? If you’re Preston Bryant, the chair of the National Capital Planning Commission and an economic and infrastructure consultant in Richmond, yes it is. Bryant sent a letter to FTA Administrator Peter Rogoff asking the agency “to withhold federal… Keep reading…
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NCPC wants more power over streetcar wires
NCPC is asking the DC Council to agree to give it a greater authority over the District’s streetcar system than its federal mandate may currently provide. If it doesn’t get that power, NCPC may try to discourage the FTA from giving DC the grant to extend the streetcar to Benning Road Metro or possibly file a lawsuit. According to attorney Andrea Ferster at the recent… Keep reading…
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Vancouver’s Larry Beasley talks DC’s Height Act in forum Tuesday, live chat Wednesday
One of the perennial topics for debate in Washington, DC is the 1910 Height of Buildings Act, which limited tall buildings and created the current “low-rise” skyline. Now, the Act is 100 years old. Has it served DC well or poorly? Keep reading…
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Bridging a 138-year-old divide suits L’Enfant’s spirit
NCPC will debate whether “closing” portions of three nonexistent “paper streets” along the Anacostia waterfront adequately respects the L’Enfant Plan. The way to best fulfill the spirit of the L’Enfant Plan, however, would be to focus on connecting the Barney Circle neighborhood to the waterfront. The railroad first separated the two when it was built in 1872, and the freeway… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Let’s roll
Wiehle turning; Metro momentum; High turnover or high demand?; Barnes Dance in Chinatown?; What Cohen says about their project; WTOP on top of bike safety; Planning can go in both directions; And…. 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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Afternoon links: Things to oppose, to support, to do
Giant billboards at Gallery Place?; Should Georgetown dream of seceding?; Support bag fees in MD; Hear Monument Wars author Savage; Alexandria dispatch: Bikes and BRAC; Visit Arlington, go to summer 2009 festival; Who you calling a gentrifier?. Keep reading…
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Marcel Acosta answers the rest of your questions
After our chat with Marcel Acosta, I sent him the questions that we didn’t have time to post, like we did with Chris Zimmerman. Here are Mr. Acosta’s answers. Eric F: Is there a risk that Federal oversight of WMATA will simply mean a raft of unfunded mandates? We see that the Federal government loves to place jersey barriers all over town to the detriment of city livability. Keep reading…
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Live chat with Marcel Acosta
Marcel Acosta is the Executive Director of the National Capital Planning Commission and an alternate member of the WMATA Board of Directors, appointed by the federal government. Keep reading…