Posts tagged Retail
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Lunch links: While you were festivating
MoCo’s trail advocate face-off: Marc Fisher profiles the arguments on both sides of the Purple Line debate from advocates who love the Capital Crescent Trail. Some want to keep transit away from the trail’s vicinity, while others believe we can and should have both. Keep reading…
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Christmas Eve links: Transportation wishes and ill-advised gifts
Wanted: more downtown burrito options: Matthew Yglesias writes about the scarce options for good burritos in downtown DC. The only good places are on food carts or in alleys, which means that either retail rents on streets are too high, or we need more food carts and alley eateries. (DC is working on new cart vending regulations, to mixed reviews thus far.)… Keep reading…
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Afternoon links: (Rail)road to the future
No to new roads: Friends of the Earth has launched a campaign to keep roads out of the upcoming federal stimulus. “The road-building lobby is attempting to hijack [the stimulus] bill and divert billions of dollars to the construction of new, unnecessary roads, highways and bridges that would deepen our nation’s dependence on oil and increase greenhouse gas emissions,”… Keep reading…
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Have DC Councilmembers ever tried to park downtown on a Saturday?
The Council passed Jim Graham’s parking meter rate hike yesterday, raising $1/hour meters to $2 and 50¢ meters to 75¢, and restoring much-needed city housing programs. But to get enough political support from the Council, Graham and co-introducer Tommy Wells had to agree to an amendment from Jack Evans designating $1 million of the revenue raised to the O Street… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: How to get to Pennsylvania Avenue
By whistlestop railroad tour: President-elect Obama will get on a train after a rally in Philadelphia, meet Joe Biden for a rally in Wilmington, then stop in Baltimore before continuing to DC. Keep reading…
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Lunch links: It’s not the communists who’re trampling on freedom today
Senators to DC: spend your money on us, not yourselves: You’ve probably already read that Senators Feinstein (D-CA) and Bennett (R-UT) are talking about blocking the recently passed bill to allow bars and restaurants to serve alcohol until 5 am on Inauguration Day. They said that “could seriously strain law enforcement resources that need to be focused on the large… Keep reading…
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TDM strategies help reduce car dependence
At yesterday’s Whitman-Walker BZA hearing, one of the neighbors opposing the project challenged the notion of building less parking than the current zoning regulations require. “Where will those cars park?” he asked. Keep reading…
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Weekend reading: around and around in circles
Phew: WMATA reached a deal with the bank trying to shake it down for millions. But it’s not home free yet. Keep reading…
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Overlays, design standards, and zoning for neighborhood retail
Yesterday, I mentioned the ARTS overlay’s restriction on restaurants. Only 25% of the street frontage, measured in linear feet, can be restaurants. The district (which includes commercial districts of U Street, 14th, P, and 7th near Florida) is already about 24% restaurants. Keep reading…