Posts tagged Preservation
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Breakfast links: Home sweet home no more?
Residents could lose homes; Shotgun housing; Unaffordable housing; NoRamp for NoMA?; Need more human enforcement; Parking problems in the future?; Living up to his name; Fund is temporarily trusty again; And…. Keep reading…
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Is a big building “incompatible” with a historic area?
Dupont Circle has a mix of large buildings, medium ones, and smaller rowhouses. If a property owner wants to build something as high as zoning allows, which is lower than some buildings but taller than most, is that “incompatible” with the historic character of the neighborhood? That’s one debate around a proposed project at 18th and Church streets, NW. Keep reading…
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Another historic resource is threatened: parking lots
A group of preservationists in Cincinnati are very worried about a precious historic resource disappearing: surface parking lots in the center city. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: On the rise
Fares. hiked; Study the lane now!; MoveDC draws AAA ire; How to broaden CaBi?; Spies like us; Give tours freely; Mile high transit; Dream of the 1890s; Don’t stop for ducks?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Cross safely
75 years of pedestrian signals; Mostly pedestrian’s fault?; Fast track for Bi-County?; More roads not the answer; Preservation threatens deal; More transit to museum; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: A certain mindset
What the Olympics bring; Don’t put fear first; Stay cool on Metro; Why the resistance to larger boundaries?; Silver Spring gets connected; Not preserved in Chevy Chase; Now change the name?; Goats help landscape vacant lots; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Mo’ MoveDC
What about drivers?; Lessons from Amsterdam; Remaking Little Washington; Metro opens (restroom) doors; The highest wage in the land; Building for resilience and livability; No drunk driving without driving; An ISO standard for cities; And…. Keep reading…
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How old are DC’s buildings? This map will tell you
An interactive map from the National Trust for Historic Preservation shows the average age of buildings throughout the city. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: CaBi safely
Only 95 CaBi crashes since 2010; Kid’s seat for CaBi; Fast ferry to Virginia; Metro’s got talent; Historic parking lots; France to pay people to bike; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Room on the sidewalk
Sidewalk cafes pay more?; Gardens sprout downtown; What’s new in new Metro cars; Some motion on 16th Street?; Federal St. E’s faces more hurdles; Money means restaurants; Slow down in Paris; Unlivable highways foil livable communities; And…. Keep reading…