Posts tagged Parking Minimums
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Breakfast links: Ride the rails
Dupont south reopens; More people take Amtrak; Less for VRE?; Councilmembers for business; Not the way to stop U-turns; Grosso gains on Brown; Fix roads for bikes too; DC is most affordable?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Approval and rejection
Tysons pushes forward; Uber taxi app illegal in New York; Bethesda neighbors fear Bikeshare; LivingSocial’s Metro deal cost nothing; Cell phones wait on Metro; Alexandria wins rights to alley; DC’s murder rate has tumbled; Cities of canines; And…. Keep reading…
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“Bravo” to parking-free development in Tenleytown
After more than 3 years of meetings, discussions, proposals and counter-proposals, ANC 3E Thursday night unanimously supported a controversial proposal to build a new residential building with ground-floor retail on a corner near the Tenleytown Metro station. My house is located on the same block as this site, the old Babe’s Billiards at the northwest corner of Wisconsin… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Contested transportation
GMU pushes sprawl some more; ANC agrees to no parking; Arlington candidates cold on streetcar; Graham vs. WMATA ethics; Got 11 cars?; TOD underway, awaits transit; Expanded transfers expands bus service; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Playoffs?
Playoff costs and benefits; Don’t need parking; Driver hits kids on Walk to School Day; Don’t walk, says LeMunyon; Low income and bikeshare; Housing list may close; Study sees red; And…. Keep reading…
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Cutting dependence on cars isn’t anti-car, it’s common sense
Cleveland Park resident Herb Caudill posted about the zoning update on the neighborhood listserv, and triggered a lively debate. On the issue of required parking, one resident wrote about “the growing hostility toward the automobile,” and said, “The need for parking is a reality of modern urban life.” Caudill followed up with this fantastic article,… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Redevelopment
No more Laurel Mall; Path cleared for Klingle Trail; Corruption fighters fight elections board; Portland builds without parking; Bus rides into house; Program tells cities apart; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: New beginnings
Maryland House approves casino bill; Ryan is not for transit; DC house prices set new high; Gallaudet opens new deaf-friendly dorm; Ad cites GGW on driverless cars; LA to cut parking minimums; No transit in 2000?; And…. Keep reading…
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Don’t be silent; speak up for a better zoning code
The DC Zoning code shapes the form of our city and influences how walkable, inclusive and transit-oriented it is. Yet the code hasn’t been comprehensively updated since 1958. Priorities have changed a lot since 1958 — and that’s why it’s so important to get involved in this effort to create the framework to help us ensure the gains we’ve made in… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Heating up
Heat slows Metro; Pay by phone at 2 Metro lots; Wells wants to cut camera fines; Wards 5 and 8 get largest slice of the pie; Long commutes contain sprawl; Seattle plans for more, quicker density; Syracuse wants to lose “Berlin Wall”; And…. Keep reading…