Posts tagged Public Spaces
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Capitol Hill parking problems from Shoup misapplication?
The Hill Rag outlines neighborhood complaints about the performance parking pilot implemented in March. The biggest objectors are businesses, mostly bars and restaurants, on Pennsylvania Avenue, who claim a drop in patronage. There’s no data, though, and “according to Wells, the Capitol Lounge and Marty’s on Barracks Row report no change in business level.”… Keep reading…
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Gateway Market plans inward-facing retail
Gateway Market is a proposed development at the corner of Florida Ave and Morse St NE, a vacant lot next to DC’s largest active food wholesale market, Florida Market. Frozen Tropics and Richard Layman object to the project. Keep reading…
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Life, liberty and library parking
We expect to pay for our apartments, our clothes, and our transit rides. So why do many people start feeling as though our basic American values are threatened if parking isn’t free? Keep reading…
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The many definitions of a “modern library”
Marc Fisher summarizes the ongoing issues with DC’s neighborhood libraries. Four years ago, the city tore down Keep reading…
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Klingle Road dead, dead, dead; bike trail alive
Liveblogging the Council hearing… OK, Finally the Council has gotten to Klingle again. This is the second reading and the final opportunity. Graham is saying that since it’s so late, he’s not going to reopen the entire discussion. Whoops, but now he’s talking about it anyway. The question of whether it’s a road, he says, is different from… Keep reading…
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Wisconsin Ave Giant is a great project
I’ve been picking on bad projects a fair amount lately, so it’s time to highlight a good project: the proposed redevelopment of the Wisconsin Avenue Giant in western Cleveland Park. This project will replace bland, single-story buildings and large surface parking lots along Wisconsin Ave and Idaho Ave with an appropriately scaled mixed-use project that will engage… Keep reading…
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Union Station latest photo flashpoint
The conflict between photographers and overzealous security guards has reached great heights, both of comedy and now power, as Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton jumps into the issue. Keep reading…
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Where do DC’s at-large Councilmembers live?
I’m listening to the entertaining debate in the DC Council on the noise bill, broadcast on the local cable Channel 13. Harry Thomas (ward 5) introduced an amendment to restrict the proposed legislation to only residentially zoned districts, as opposed to mixed-use districts. Muriel Bowser (ward 4), Jim Graham (1) and Yvette Alexander (7) so far have spoken in favor of this… Keep reading…
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A bicycle but no racks at Benning Library
Thursday is the final public meeting for the Benning Library. Below are the latest architectural renderings: Keep reading…
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18th Street Dupont reconstruction off?
I’ve heard from a source that the reconstruction of 18th Street in Dupont is now postponed to 2011. Maybe DDOT swapped its priority with that of 18th Street in Adams Morgan? Keep reading…