Posts about Development
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Better Know a Single-Member District: 3C03
SMD 3C03. From Google Maps. “The fightin’ 3C03” 3C03 is one of three SMDs in the neighborhood of Woodley Park. Woodley combines some large residential buildings along Connecticut with single-family homes farther away, a small but lively retail strip, and perhaps the greatest concentration of large institutional land uses in any neighborhood its size. There… Keep reading…
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White Flint at forefront of urbanism on Rockville Pike
Rockville Pike between the NIH and downtown Rockville is an ugly mess of an edge city. Like Tysons, it has too much density to be truly car friendly, but all the ugliness of suburbia: strip malls set back behind acres of surface parking. This is all connected by a six lane road with speed limits that are too high to be safe for pedestrians. The irony is that unlike Tysons, Rockville Pike already… Keep reading…
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“Traffic, traffic, traffic, parking, parking, traffic, parking”
Those were the words of OP’s Jennifer Steingasser at Wednesday’s Giant meeting in Cleveland Park. Steingasser was referring to the fact that concerns about the project are almost all actually transportation concerns, not zoning concerns. Keep reading…
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Wisconsin Giant plan is not too giant
Please welcome GGW’s newest correspondent and frequent past commenter, northwest resident Ben Thielen. — David Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: End of the world as we know it
OMG 140 people might live on Wisconsin! City Paper shows a flyer warning people of traffic mayhem if the Giant project is built on Wisconsin Avenue in McLean Gardens. In an email to the Cleveland Park list, opponent Nancy MacWood wrote, “I think many of us have assumed that we would absorb some of the District’s move to attract new residents. … But frankly no one contemplated… Keep reading…
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Let’s create a scorecard
I’m in the process of interviewing candidates for DC Council at-large. I plan to make a scorecard comparing candidates’ positions on various key issues. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Two sides of many coins
Adams Morgan ANC commissioner arrested: Nancy Shia, representing northeastern Adams Morgan on ANC 1C, was arrested Sunday for taking pictures of a crime scene. Shia claims she was “just trying to document the scene,” while police claim she was “impeding a police investigation” and opened the door of a police vehicle to get a picture of a juvenile suspect. Keep reading…
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1960s highway thinking dangerous for Maryland
The Intercounty Connector was a bad idea in the first place, but recent events have deepened the scale of Maryland’s mistake in approving this project. The costs continue to spiral, like the new $100 million cost overrun we found out about last month. And rising gas prices have made any hope of recouping costs through tolls increasingly a pipe dream. Keep reading…
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“Excitement” not worth $1B stadium
Mayor Fenty wants to bring the Redskins back to DC, calling it “a big mistake” to let the team move to Landover in 1997. Why does Fenty want them back? Civic pride. Fenty told the Post, Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Choices for unhappy drivers
One way to reduce the number of cars: People are torching their own cars in increasing numbers, in places like Capitol Hill’s “Car-B-Que Alley”. Even abandoned cars not on fire pose a nuisance, but DC’s law makes it difficult to remove them. (Post, City Paper, Infosnack) You could have driven to San Francisco: The average Washington commuter spent 60 hours in traffic last year,… Keep reading…