Posts tagged Sprawl
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Muriel Bowser predicts DC holds 800,000 people in 20 years. That requires a lot of new housing.
DC mayor Muriel Bowser appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Tuesday. In response to a question about whether DC is “full,” she said DC “is going to keep growing” to 800,000 people in about 20 years. A recent report from George Mason University says it’ll take a lot of new housing, of all types and for all income ranges, to get there. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Clearing the smoke
Sleeveless; Transit oriented library; Innovation initiated; Taxi complaints; Still popping; The return of Gray; City Place facelift; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Funding strategies
Second snow day; Bike hike; No statehood, but we can sled!; More Maryland light rail?; Uber-happy in Maryland; More Amtrak funding details; Compact is cheap; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Montgomery for transit
No service cuts; Purple please; Legalization looms; Aiports less uber; Ped death leads to charges; Build for safety; Signs that work; See sprawl run; Jobs back downtown; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: After the snow
Snow sequel; More plows please; Air rights to Rosslyn?; Snow patrol; Mixed use might; Aging in place; Franklin fallout; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Rebuke
Money over culture?; Free our sidewalks; Downzoning going ahead; Safety steps; Slower growth in DC; Morning bell; How can Metro save energy?; And…. Keep reading…
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Maryland’s rural economy depends on its urban and suburban areas
Maryland’s incoming Republican governor, Larry Hogan, says he wants to boost the state’s economy by building roads instead of transit and focusing on the state’s rural areas over urban ones. But starving urban areas of their needs will only bring the entire state down. Ever since his election last month, Hogan has been noncommittal about the state’s… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Life of a Mayor
Marion Barry dies; Olympics group eyes venues; Improve the stadium deal; Wilson changes popular; From nowhere to NoMa; What’s next for streetcars; No Hollywood here; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Boo-st to the economy?
MLK Library needs more; Big money for pot; Walmart squeezes small businesses; Ways to deal with Uber; You forgot data; Fall back early; More diversity on bikes; Sprawl leads to unemployment; Bikes boost Memphis; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Affordable housing
Affordable housing debate; What affordable housing?; No more Half Street; Closing sidewalks in Bethesda; “Woods” against the bus; Cycling incidents go down; America’s changing suburbs; Metro pedestrian bridge coming in January; And…. Keep reading…