Posts about Development
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Eastern Market plaza road diet: Study and experiment, don’t presume
The moment the Capitol Hill Town Square team finished their presentation, one woman stood up ramrod straight, her hand in the air, an intense, determined expression on her face. The moderator called on her, and her statement was as sharp as her facial expression. This whole notion of traffic calming on Pennsylvania Avenue at Eastern Market Metro was just the wrong thing for Capitol… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Decongesting our politics and our roads
Barry back in the news; We’re still riding, still need Metro; Bus locations copyright NextBus?; Chicago parked itself into a corner; It’s working for Philly; Paging Jim Graham; Paging Barbara Mikulski; Just National?. Keep reading…
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Weekend reading: (Auto)mobility and the environment
Freeways bad for pregnant women; Better stormwater management in Virginia; Popular ART; Freako press coverage of crashes; Parking pressures at Eastern Market; Gabe on video. Keep reading…
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Cars: it’s not black and white (except for police cruisers)
Shortly after the parking minimums debate, anti groups started echoing a common theme: The DC government is trying to get rid of cars. At many individual meetings, from Historic Dupont Circle Main Streets to the ANC 2F task force on the ARTS Overlay, some residents have made statements like, “DDOT’s declared policy is to get rid of cars,” as though this were simply… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: 14th, car-centrism, and you
Noise on 14th, from bars and politics; Huge garage better than daytime neighborhood activity?; DC, MD fix it first; VA widens it first; Pedestrian strikes front of fast-moving police cruiser; And…. Keep reading…
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Pimp my Safeway: Redevelopment potential for the Capitol Hill Safeway
This past spring, Georgetown’s “Social Safeway” closed so that it can be torn down and rebuilt. The new Safeway will be a two-story building with street-facing stores along the sidewalk, the grocery store on the second floor, and parking behind. Farther up Wisconsin, a Giant supermarket is also pursuing a new urban design that will “replace bland, single-story… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Stand up and be counting
Entitled Driver Syndrome alive and well; Count bikes and peds Thursday and Saturday; Safeway Avenue, NW; Maryland may actually start being smart; Development updates; Metro morsels. Keep reading…
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Gaithersbungle: Planning Board staff latest to ignore better way for Gaithersburg
Planning officials are continuing their blind rush toward building cookie-cutter, sprawling, traffic-generating development patterns in and around Gaithersburg. We’ve already discussed how SHA only really considers more lanes as a solution to congestion on I-270, and the Planning Board only considered suburban office-park density for the JHU Belward Farm development. Keep reading…
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Afternoon links: Raw deals
Worst deal ever; Disneyification, literally; Smart Growth is green and cheap; No room to expand. What parking lots?; Numbers on SmartBike; BamBike?; Paths not lanes; Desire of Detroit. Keep reading…
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Living within our means
A $750 million public financing deal for a convention center hotel had scarcely appeared on the table before it was taken off again. One of the driving forces behind the fall of that proposal? DC’s recently enacted debt cap. It’s an early sign that this tool will help keep our leaders fiscally honest, especially when it comes to economic development subsidies. Keep reading…