Posts about Development
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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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Residents sound off about East Falls Church redevelopment
Arlington residents voiced familiar opinions for and against parking, traffic calming, and development at last week’s meeting on the East Falls Church plan. That plan calls for redeveloping low-density commercial properties and the Metro park and ride lot, as well as improving pedestrian and bicycle connectivity and major streetscapes. Most commenters supported… Keep reading…
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Bridging a 138-year-old divide suits L’Enfant’s spirit
NCPC will debate whether “closing” portions of three nonexistent “paper streets” along the Anacostia waterfront adequately respects the L’Enfant Plan. The way to best fulfill the spirit of the L’Enfant Plan, however, would be to focus on connecting the Barney Circle neighborhood to the waterfront. The railroad first separated the two when it was built in 1872, and the freeway… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Let’s roll
Wiehle turning; Metro momentum; High turnover or high demand?; Barnes Dance in Chinatown?; What Cohen says about their project; WTOP on top of bike safety; Planning can go in both directions; And…. Keep reading…
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NCPC worries about viewsheds in waterfront development
Thrusday’s National Capital Planning Commission meeting will consider a project along the Anacostia waterfront between the 11th Street bridges and the CSX railroad. Staff have objected to closing parts of “paper street” segments of Virginia Avenue, M Street, and 14th Street, SE. The project, at 1333 M Street, SE, would build a large hotel and office building… Keep reading…
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Lunch links: Spaces and trees
Space that’s green but little else; Give the kids some space; Trees please; The Gaithers-somewhat-less-bungled; NYC trying bus cameras; We need a good Amtrak; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Make the point
The graph that moves backward; Sarles should push harder, ride buses; MA’s bicycle Republican; Construction pushes peds into street; War on grand staircases; Sun rising on East Campus; Iconic bus map?. Keep reading…
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Silver Spring school leaving, could become 75 homes
With most of their students coming from outside Montgomery, the Chelsea School will leave Downtown Silver Spring in 2012 and has sold their property on Pershing Drive to a local developer hoping to build up to 75 new townhomes there. Representatives from the private, special-needs school met with neighbors at a meeting of the adjacent Seven Oaks-Evanswood Civic Association… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Healthier living
DC schools may get healthier, soda more pricey; NG cost trumps employee preferences; One determined ticket-fighter; Keep riding on; Budget not better for everyone; Amy Polk, crash victim; Cycle crash in Reston; And…. 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…