Posts tagged Sprawl
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Will Tysons halfway plan bolster or doom the future city?
A few anti neighbors aside, Fairfax County leaders and advocates broadly agree with the goal of transforming our nation’s largest and most successful suburban office park district into an urban city, where most residents and workers travel in ways other than single-passenger vehicles. But nobody has done this before on such a scale, and there is less consensus on how, exactly,… Keep reading…
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Weekend links and deep thoughts
Airport carts analogous to cars?; Boston vs. DC or resident vs. driver?; Park all evening but not for free; Two tracks, phew; Clunkers policy a clunker; Crash victim speaks; Sarles speaks, acts. Keep reading…
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Is Metro accessibility a factor for Northrop Grumman?
Northrop Grumman has narrowed down its headquarters search to two locations, one in a walkable and transit-adjacent area of Ballston, and the other in a generic, car-dependent suburban office park off the Beltway in Fairfax County. Stewart Schwartz of the Coalition for Smarter Growth is urging Northrop to choose Ballston (PDF): I am writing to you in my capacity as Executive… Keep reading…
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Morning links: Where to live, where to build
Houses houses everywhere…; 2030 sprawl?; Bike, Smart Growth bills pass; Post recommends wire-hybrid streetcars; Southwest needs a playground; Rewriting the crazy MoCoZoCo. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Law-abiding, at least in Jersey
That’s respect; Stop for pedestrians in New Jersey; Charges pending already?; Don’t drive, especially here; Close M Street in G’town weekends?; 2 school fires; PG’s missed opportunities; Old, white, retired people. Keep reading…
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What is “mixed use”?
This morning’s Breakfast Links chided the Washington Business Journal for calling a 59-house suburban project with a school a “walkable, mixed-use development.” It appears they were taken in by the name of the zone, “Planned Mixed Residential,” and this press release from the developer, which emphasizes the proximity of the houses to a nearby… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bad people
Kornheiser disciple?; Not top employee; Not really “mixed use”; Traffic tests like a hydra; No I-80 tolls, no money; MD cuts repair, rejects transit “poison pill”; No cuts, more from jurisdictions, peak of the peak; Bronrott going federal. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Objects in motion
Convention center hotel back on track; Exurbs become “gated ghettos”; Ped hit at Wisconsin and M; Stroll and circulate freely; Blogging transit agencies; Give us our squares; JetBlue really coming to DCA; On politics. Keep reading…
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Afternoon links: National trends, local impacts
How is your county doing with the Census?; More development happening in cities; Exurbs on the rebound or a dead cat bounce?; Better cars better, but not salvation; What’s Current; Thanks… I think. Keep reading…
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With White Flint, Montgomery gets another Bethesda
The Montgomery County Council unanimously approved the White Flint Sector Plan yesterday, authorizing a new walkable, mixed-use district like Bethesda, Rockville and Silver Spring. Today, the area of Rockville Pike from the White Flint Mall to Randolph Road is an unbroken chain of strip malls and huge parking lots centered on a Metro station. These strip malls serve many of… Keep reading…