Posts tagged Zoning Update
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Ensuring retail and residential diversity in zoning
The DC Office of Planning routinely posts their reports on zoning variance requests. This week, they recommended against approving two requests concerning tricky zoning issues: multifamily conversions and corner stores. Many neighborhoods have numerous townhouses divided into multiple apartments, and many have corner stores in residential districts. Creating new ones,… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Make a difference
Live in Montgomery County? Park and Planning is surveying residents on “how we manage growth, … [and] enhance quality of place in our communities.” Weigh in for more walkable, mixed-use places over auto-dependent sprawl. Also, there’s just one more week to submit public comments to MTA Maryland in support of the light rail Purple Line. Keep reading…
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A glass tower pops out on Harvard Street
Harvard Street in Columbia Heights, between 14th and 15th Streets, looks like a typical DC street, with a combination of classic row house styles. Except, in the middle, a single glass building sticks out, in more ways than one. 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…
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Zoning Commission supports parking reform!
The District of Columbia is taking its rightful place as a leader in progressive parking policy. The Zoning Commission last night approved agreed with most of the Office of Planning’s recommendations to reduce minimum off-street parking requirements, implement targeted maximums, provide car-sharing spaces in large garages, and require bicycle parking and shower facilities. Last… Keep reading…
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Afternoon links: great streets aren’t overrun with parking
Parking minimums could kill SE project: A proposed building at 801 Virginia Ave will be offices instead of condos; unfortunately, current parking minimums are higher for offices, groundwater makes digging more parking levels too costly, and without a variance, Infosnack points out we’ll just be stuck with an empty lot. DCist agrees with parking reform: Removing parking minimums… Keep reading…
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Is our city a little more suburban today than it was yesterday?
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Tonight’s and tomorrow’s meetings
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“Affordable housing for cars”
I should be finishing packing, but I just noticed that Ken Archer’s op-ed in this week’s Current is online. Archer, a Georgetown resident who told the parking zoning hearing that he and his wife would be bringing their upcoming baby home on the D3 bus, rebuts many arguments made against reducing or eliminating parking minimums. Keep reading…
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Zoning Commission delays parking discussion
With many items on the agenda for this month, the Zoning Commission has delayed discussion of the proposed parking regulations until its October meeting. At least I’m pretty sure it has—after mentioning that “proposed actions”, of which the parking issue is one, will come last, Chairman Hood said that the Commission would “continue” its… Keep reading…