Posts tagged Tenleytown
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How does the drinking age affect community?
UMD College Park President C.D. Mote Jr. has joined the growing chorus of college presidents who support returning the drinking age to 18, DCist reports. I agree with this, both because it’s rational public policy (it will probably reduce binge drinking) and because having an arbitrary line you cross in the middle of college (rather than before or after) is silly and unfair. Keep reading…
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Dinner links: We can do better edition
Cheh comes out against Tenley library plan: NIMBYs and smart growth advocates have common ground on the LCOR development proposal for the Tenley-Friendship Library: they all hate it. A mixed-use building with housing and shops along with a library is a good idea for that high-traffic corner, but sources who know about the proposal say it’s a bad one, and Councilmember Mary… Keep reading…
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Late night links: familiar battle lines edition
Moran, Oberstar defend transit: Virginia’s Burke Connection covered Monday’s town hall meeting in Tysons. Oberstar, the chair of the House Transportation Committee, got most of the quotes in the article, defending light rail and criticizing the federal funding formula which ignores many factors. And, like all pro-transit officials, he expressed a clear hope that… Keep reading…
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Kojo on density
On today’s Kojo Nnamdi Show on WAMU, Post architecture critic Roger Lewis discusses good and bad design for density, analogies of Washington to Paris, transit-oriented development, Smart Growth controversy in Tenleytown and Annapolis, and the architectural and political sides of density. Keep reading…
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NIMBYism strong on Upper Wisconsin
Calling it “giving up on Smart Growth,” Marc Fisher laments the death of a development proposal at the Tenleytown Metro, which would have replaced a small neighborhood library with higher density mixed-use and moved the library a few blocks away. The first time I went to Tenleytown, visiting friends who live there, we had to walk about 15 minutes to Connecticut Avenue… Keep reading…
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Ward 3 Vision
A community coalition pushing for smart growth in the upper Wisconsin Ave corridor (Tenleytown to Friendship Heights) and elsewhere in DC’s far Northwest ward 3. Keep reading…