Posts tagged Tod
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Fort Totten development plans pedestrian street
Earlier this month, DC officials announced another economic development deal to sell an unused parcel of public land for development. This parcel is very close to the Fort Totten Metro station, an area that has seen very little transit-oriented development despite its location on three Metro lines. Based on the publicly-released drawings, the project is working hard to create… Keep reading…
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TOD before transit on the Dulles corridor: Herndon’s Arrowbrook
Herndon is getting a brand new “town center” development, called Arrowbrook Centre. While work on the actual town center hasn’t started yet, a 6-acre wetlands park broke ground earlier this year. The first phase will include 422,000 square feet of office space, 160,000 square feet of specialty retail/restaurant space and 407 luxury apartment homes. Eventually… Keep reading…
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Wasteful development at Landover Metro
It’s no secret that Prince George’s County is lousy at developing around its Metro stations. But check this madness out by Landover Metro station on the Orange Line: Keep reading…
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Merrifield: Fairfax’s first try at TOD
The proposed redevelopment (or reinvention) of Tysons Corner, the Silver Line, and Fairfax County’s accompanying rezoning have gotten a lot of attention. But just to the south of that currently nightmarish crossroads is the county’s first stab at transforming an office park and auto-dependent suburb into human-scale mixed use and transit oriented development. Keep reading…
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How about a North Capitol Red Line branch?
Large mixed-use development projects at the McMillan Sand Filtration site and Armed Forces Retirement Home will add density and thousands of residential units to an area far from Metro. Current Bloomingdale residents are concerned about increased traffic, as the area is already a bottleneck, pinched between parks, universities and cemeteries that have severed the street grids. Keep reading…
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Prince George’s great Heights
At the four corners of the original District of Columbia are four very distinct developments. In the south, Alexandria hugs the Potomac River as a classic example of a traditional city. On the west corner is Falls Church, a typical but up-and-coming Virginia suburb. In the north, Silver Spring sits atop the District’s crown showcasing the triumphant transition from a suburb… Keep reading…
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The Corridor Cities Transitway and the future of the middle suburbs
According to the Gazette, Maryland state planners are optimistic that private sector funding might help pay for the Corridor Cities Transitway. The Transitway is a proposed line north of Shady Grove along the 270 corridor, through some areas planned for high density commercial and residential development. A train line here would encourage human scale, energy efficient, walkable… Keep reading…
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“Colossal pent-up demand for TOD”
The New Republic’s Bradford Plumer attended this morning’s Brookings Panel on the Purple Line. According to Plumer, MoCo Councilmember Mark Elrich is still unsure whether to spend more on the better light rail or save money with the bus, but Christopher Leinberger says Elrich is thinking about it all wrong: better transit creates more and better development, and more… Keep reading…
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Zoning Commission nominee Keating supports Smart Growth and TOD
Unlike in many cities, the DC Council doesn’t have the authority to review or influence zoning regulation changes or large-scale development projects. Instead, the Home Rule Act gives that power to the Zoning Commission, made up of three DC appointees and two federal representatives. Some feel this yields better results, isolated from politics and the corrupting effect… Keep reading…
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Metro plans to share parking with Marriott hotel
At this week’s meeting, WMATA’s Planning, Development and Real Estate Committee will consider a proposal to enter into an agreement with Marriott to build a 162-room hotel on the Prince George’s Plaza Metro station site (see map). Originally, the site was to have a free-standing bank, which is not a very high-density use of land near a Metro station. This is much… Keep reading…