Posts about Development
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Breakfast links: Getting built, getting rented
Not enough housing!; Higher vacant property charges?; War and Peaceoholics; In the courts; Tough streets; DIY complete street; Manhattan agrees not to overbuild parking. Keep reading…
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Afternoon links: Nonsense
National Highways-In-Parks Service?; Wilson Building ATM machine still running; Silver Line car price fight; Finalists selected for Planning Board; More cents and sense for Bethesda parking; Tenleytown: 60 years of anti; So high-speed, it never stops; Post’s new network. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Governments for questionable urbanism
Left hand plans transit, right hand adds parking; Why the hate for form-based codes?; Cycle-assaulting teens busted; New bike infrastructure; Keeping you Posted; Ben’s on every corner; Cable cars and the blue castle. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Montgomery’s losses
Dan Reed leaving; Vacant stores and gas stations not the path; Lots in (& near) LeDroit; Oh, these spare parts?; Alexandria’s parking solution; All about Bobs (and Tom); Drive-thru booze. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Shape of the neighborhood
Modern and eastern; Housing very complex; New bike laws in Maryland; Listen to bloggers; Housing and transportation costs around Boston; Railroads are good for roads; In other news. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Big links on big stories
RIP Constance Holden; Outcry smashing ARTS overlay cap; Gaithersbargain wins straw poll; Not all Loudoun roads need to be 8 lanes; Pulitzer for distracted driving reporting; And…; Development dispatches. Keep reading…
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Morning links: Where to live, where to build
Houses houses everywhere…; 2030 sprawl?; Bike, Smart Growth bills pass; Post recommends wire-hybrid streetcars; Southwest needs a playground; Rewriting the crazy MoCoZoCo. Keep reading…
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Quantitatively compare New York neighborhoods
Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com crunched numbers to rank 60 New York City neighborhoods on their livability, combining housing costs, transit, safety, nightlife, parks, schools, and more. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Law-abiding, at least in Jersey
That’s respect; Stop for pedestrians in New Jersey; Charges pending already?; Don’t drive, especially here; Close M Street in G’town weekends?; 2 school fires; PG’s missed opportunities; Old, white, retired people. Keep reading…
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What is “mixed use”?
This morning’s Breakfast Links chided the Washington Business Journal for calling a 59-house suburban project with a school a “walkable, mixed-use development.” It appears they were taken in by the name of the zone, “Planned Mixed Residential,” and this press release from the developer, which emphasizes the proximity of the houses to a nearby… Keep reading…