Posts tagged Parking Maximums
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Coast Guard employees are using the Anacostia Metro station in a weird way
Metro recently released data showing where Metrorail riders go from each station, and as one of our commenters noted, the most-frequented destination for people traveling from Anacostia is… Anacostia. That’s because Coast Guard employees and contractors use the Anacostia Metro as a pedestrian tunnel. Keep reading…
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Heritage building 105 parking spaces under 6 rowhouses
The Heritage Foundation plans to build 6 rowhouses near its offices at 3rd Street and Massachusetts Avenue, NE. There will be 105 parking spaces underneath, which Heritage will rent out to employees, though well below market rate, and a Capital Bikeshare station. Heritage has an existing office building with only a small amount of parking on site. The foundation purchased a… Keep reading…
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Epic Ward 3 zoning update meeting Tuesday night
This Tuesday is a very important day! It’s my birthday. (And Kojo Nnamdi’s.) Also, it’s the zoning update meeting in Ward 3, a ward which houses many of the most strident opponents, but where a great many residents also support growing and more walkable neighborhoods. Can you go to the meeting? You don’t need to know much about the zoning update; it’s… Keep reading…
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In Ward 2, residents ask for lower parking minimums
Dupont ANC commissioner Kevin O’Connor summed up the tenor of Tuesday’s Penn Quarter meeting on the zoning update simply: “Consensus of Ward 2 zoning meeting seems to be that [reducing the] parking minimums need[s] to go even further than proposed.” During the question and answer session, the dominant theme was that the update is moving in the right… Keep reading…
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What’s in the zoning update: Fewer parking minimums
Tonight is the second public meeting for the DC Zoning Update, at 421 7th St. NW in the Penn Quarter. Let us know if you can come to this one, or one of the others in December and January. Steven Yates attended the first meeting, Saturday in Southwest. He reported: Parking seemed like the most contentious issue. There were some people concerned with the elimination of some… Keep reading…
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To discourage building empty garages, unbundle parking
The DC Office of Planning (OP) wisely proposes eliminating most minimum parking requirements as part of the zoning update, but this does not affect developers who voluntarily build more parking than required and “bundle” it into condo sales or office leases. This bundling leaves residents and workers with no option to save money by forgoing parking. Rules to “unbundle”… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Smile or frown
Smile for the camera; DOES overpays; Bondi responds; Mark Center traffic not yet bad; Have an extra room?; MWAA opening up a little; Share the road in bright colors; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Everything old is new again
Urban farming returns to DC; Fighting sprawl in 1959; Mark Center gets a parking max; Cities fight gangs, power vacuums; UK crashes mapped; Eisenhowers criticize Eisenhower Memorial; Cop hits bicyclist; Next stop, holiday cheer. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Let’s play politics
GOP would privatize Northeast Corridor; House committee would halt St. E’s; Bill has a few BRAC fixes; Gas tax holiday for holidays?; Bulova wants GMU precinct; Barry, Brown tussle; Carjackings raise questions; CaBi opens eyes; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Planning the deets
Getting into the Purple Line details; Finalizing connections to Tysons stations; Fairfax may limit parking near Metro; Alexandria needs an add-on tax; Congress needs a dorm; Will political shooting raise security?; Listen to the riders; Jamieson knows what WMATA PR should say; “War on drivers” is nonsense; And…. Keep reading…