Posts tagged Parking Minimums
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Breakfast links: Think outside the car
The right way to talk about performance parking; Sign for streetcars; Do parking spaces vote in Gaithersburg?; Tough to shake the cell phone habit; Reduce crash injuries, unsafe driving, or just driving?; The Idaho Stop is safer; Hawthorne’s sidewalk “war”; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Making and fixing mistakes
Safe but illegal routes to school; Highways becoming safer, still dangerous; Single tracking, here we come; Following in our mistakes; We’re like California, but at least we’re not like New England; Only Boston is more Luddite; And…; Bleedin’ billboard. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Park or don’t drive
Charlottesville considers meters; NCPC unhappy with no new parking at Navy Yard?; Talking parking in Alexandria; Sweeper cam tickets to fund housing; BRAC all fraked; NYC imagines 49,000 shared bicycles; DCCA elects slate, President too close to call. Keep reading…
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Olde Towne Gaithersburg: He who hesitated was lost
During the now-defunct credit bubble, legacy walkable urban places in Montgomery County enjoyed renovation and investment unparalleled in decades. Silver Spring received a brand new commercial development that catalyzed a better reputation and increased foot traffic. Investment in Bethesda accelerated beyond its already fast pace. Wheaton got a renovated mall and new residential… Keep reading…
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Lunch links: New news on old issues
The bag man vs. the bag bill; Eisenhower memorial or Gehry memorial?; Anacostia trolley delayed until 2012?; Sidewalk safety and suburban styling in Silver Spring; HPRB rejects sidewalk cafe, house move; How smart is it?; Ward 7 development latest to ask for parking exception. Keep reading…
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Next American City features transit maps, DC bloggers
Greater Greater Washington, BeyondDC, Track Twenty-Nine and other Washington area blogs appear in the latest issue of Next American City not once but twice. Keep reading…
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Long Beach legislator proposes parking reform menu
California State Senator Lowenthal (D - Long Beach and vicinity) last week introduced a bill (PDF) that would require all California cities and counties to reform parking laws. The bill includes a menu of reforms with “points” for each, similar to the LEED ratings for buildings. It would require localities to enact reforms totaling 20 “points” by… Keep reading…
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Weekend reading I: Maryland transportation watch
Parking min blocking new restaurant: Former Colorado Kitchen chef Gillian Clark is ready to open a restaurant, The General Store, in Silver Spring (at Forest Glen and Seminary Roads). The only problem is, county parking rules require 30 spaces, and they only have 7. Instead, they can only serve carryout customers. Dual tip from David and Becca. In other parking minimum news, Ithaca,… Keep reading…
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Working people might live in Rockville! Everybody panic!
Tonight, the Rockville City Council will debate Beall’s Grant II, a proposed mixed-income housing development around the corner from Rockville Town Square and 0.4 miles from the Rockville Metro. Opponents have a long laundry list of complaints that mostly fall into two categories: “This project is too big and will destroy our neighborhood,” and “Poor… Keep reading…
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Weekend reading: taxes, fees, and the effect of bad planning
Gas tax comeback? Congressman-elect Gerry Connolly (D-Fairfax) suggested raising the gax tax to close huge budget gaps. With Mary Peters and her seemingly-irrational opposition to the gax tax in all forms on the way out, gas prices low, and budget deficits high, this makes some sense. (WTOP) Keep reading…