Posts tagged Preservation
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Breakfast links: Safety on board
Guardian Angels upping Metro patrols; Safety issues on Metrobuses; Can the Mayor overrule HPRB?; Changing ways at Wilson Building?; CaBi posts impressive numbers; Make sure density helps all incomes; What it takes to save solar in DC; Giant globe may become giant baseball; And…. Keep reading…
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Where and What’s That?
I recently took a trip to a different city. Can you identify the city from the photos below? How many of these places can you identify? Each pair depicts the same building or site, except the middle pair, which are nearby. Keep reading…
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Want to be on some DC boards?
Mayor Gray has to fill 5 of 9 slots on the Historic Preservation Review Board in the near future. He will also have two appointments to make to the Zoning Commission and two for the Board of Zoning Adjustment. Some seats have people whose terms have expired; Gray could reappoint some of the current members of any of these boards, or not. Other seats are currently vacant. The Committee… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Make ‘em pay
Should Montgomery pay for the Purple Line?; Hugo succeeds in hurting his neighbors; Sarles won’t end bag searches; Utility companies under fire; MoCo commission calls for major reforms; Arlington debuts new bike map; DC area sites get preservation grants; Pizza everywhere, almost; And…. Keep reading…
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Lost Washington: The Gayety Theater
Ninth Street NW, the blocks just north of Pennsylvania Avenue: Today they’re lined with rows of the same nondescript office buildings you see everywhere else downtown. And then there’s that hulking FBI building on the west side. But it wasn’t always like this. A hundred years ago this was where the action was. “Ninth Street was the Broadway of Washington,”… Keep reading…
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NCPC plans to be more open
The National Capital Planning Commission is working on an Open Government Plan, to “increase transparency, public participation, and collaboration.” You can vote on their various ideas at an interactive site. Ideas include putting online more of the plans that are under review, live streaming meetings, creating an online platform for people to collaboratively suggest… Keep reading…
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Lost Washington: Church of the Covenant
Churches are one of the biggest challenges for historic preservation. They are such unique structures and so poorly suited to be anything but what they are. What happens when a congregation outgrows its building and wants to move on? In some cases, old churches downtown have been preserved because they were taken over by other religious groups. Several downtown landmarks have… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Cycling in the law and the press
Bike bills introduced in Richmond; Bike baiting is really frio; Alternatives to extending Metro; East Falls Church planning enters final stages; DC makes inroads against chronic homelessness; Foggy Bottom station closed over MLK weekend; Nominate “most endangered” historic properties; Streetcars: a renaissance or transportation nostalgia?; Google Transit adds new features; And…. Keep reading…
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Congo wants circular driveway at 16th and Riggs
The Republic of the Congo has purchased the historic Toutorsky Mansion at 16th and Riggs, NW, and is requesting permission to replace much of the front yard with a circular driveway. The embassy can function in the space without the driveway, and DC should deny that element. The 18-room house, built in 1894 for for Supreme Court Justice Henry Billings Brown, writer of the famous… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: What’s effective?
Tommy talks Metro & bags; MD smart growth policies ineffective; Councilmember Biddle; Another fight in Metro station; Metro to use 3-day weekend closures more; Developments in the works for 2011; NY Ave redevelopment not held up by historic preservation; Ohio puts interstate extension in multimodal plan; And…. Keep reading…