Posts about Development
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Lunch links: Train stations and stationary trains
A grand station and community in New Carrollton?; Riders still confident in Metro; Not just a “situation” or “disruption”; Google Transit in Fairfax; DC budget crisis, again; Suburban living not inherently better, thanks. Keep reading…
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Compare the Hine redevelopment proposals
On June 10th, four developers presented their plans for the now-closed Hine Junior High School site in Capitol Hill to a packed room of neighborhood residents and business owners. Three of the four proposals were refreshingly urban in their look, focused on place-making oriented toward people friendly, human scaled buildings. The other one had no hard plans, making it difficult… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bike lanes and pushy drivers
Road dieting is healthy; Hoboken Hobikelane; Police to ticket aggressive drivers; Offices in the west; Cruzing on the Hill; Around the region; Across the nation. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Taking aim
Shooting in Columbia Heights; Dissecting the transportation bill; Dulles United? Wheaton United?; Finally thinking about peds and bikes; Green Falls Church?; Stopping “jamitons”. Keep reading…
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Who needs GUTS when you have the D?
Last week, we discussed some Georgetown residents’ opposition to GUTS buses running along Reservoir or Q Streets through the Georgetown neighborhood. They want Georgetown to route the shuttle along a 4.7-mile circuitous route on Foxhall, Canal, the Whitehurst, K, and New Hampshire Avenue instead of the current 1.8-mile, more direct route. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Today in buildings
If you don’t like your historic building, let it fall down?; You say “of its time,” I say “faux modernism”; Making the FBI building work; Good plan, bad design for Walgreens?; Hotel isn’t more important than everything else; Purple Line beats opponents, highways at TPB; And…. Keep reading…
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Morning links: Back and greater than ever
I’m back; “Overgrown office park” to real city; More sidewalks coming, especially in River East; I-270 corridor residents want transit; Mixed-income areas boost civic participation; Arlington gets greener, transit opponents claim to be; Across the nation; And…. Keep reading…
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Arlington’s Smart Growth Journey: The Future
The foresight of Arlington’s leaders in the 1960s, and the county’s ongoing commitment to maintaining the vision since, has turned it into a nationwide model for Smart Growth. What’s next for the little county that could? Will people a generation hence look back at the decisions today’s leaders make with the same pride that we feel toward the planners who… Keep reading…
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Land-use transformation to reduce teenage deaths (a personal plea)
I am terribly saddened by the death of my brother’s and sister-in-law’s niece, 16. She died a week after a severe car crash on March 22 that was survived by the three other teens who were in the car. She was a passenger in the rear seat. Keep reading…