Posts tagged Parking Minimums
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Breakfast links: Alternatives
The other approach to the gas tax; Yet another way to fund transit; Traffic and pedestrian deaths hit new low; Rents go down?; Up in the sky, it’s a Purple Line station!; The future of car sharing; Where to grow; Parking plugs Pgh project. 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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Go to a zoning update meeting, ask OP to fill in the holes
After a little breather for the holidays, it’s time for DC’s most contentious, important, yet timid public policy proposal to roll forward once more. The public meetings on the zoning update resume this weekend in Columbia Heights, with the biggest clash to follow Tuesday in Tenleytown. Please attend one or more of the meetings this month and let us know which you’ll… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Transportation projects for the new year
VA’s Outer Beltway coming; What counties want; More info on Jack’s; Arlington peaking?; Year’s most annoying in development; Regulations make alley living pricey; DC faces higher fiscal cliff; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The last vote
Council votes; Barry’s ex-con law fails; Step back for campaign finance; Frederick, Howard tops in schools; Build high in Pentagon City?; Calling all car apps; LA approves 1st area without parking minimums; And…. 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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Our living and transportation choices gain diversity
The early analysis of the presidential election suggests that President Obama can credit much of his victory to a changing American electorate, which is more diverse, better educated and more urban than it was 20 years ago when Bill Clinton became president. Keep reading…
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Harriet Tregoning is pro-choice (on transportation)
“I’m not anti-car,” said DC planning director Harriet Tregoning last night at a meeting of the Federation of Citizens’ Associations. “I’m pro-choice.” Tregoning and Washington Post reporter Jonathan O’Connell were speaking to the group about development and the zoning update. Many members of the audience were incredulous… 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…