Posts about Development
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TDM strategies help reduce car dependence
At yesterday’s Whitman-Walker BZA hearing, one of the neighbors opposing the project challenged the notion of building less parking than the current zoning regulations require. “Where will those cars park?” he asked. Keep reading…
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“Colossal pent-up demand for TOD”
The New Republic’s Bradford Plumer attended this morning’s Brookings Panel on the Purple Line. According to Plumer, MoCo Councilmember Mark Elrich is still unsure whether to spend more on the better light rail or save money with the bus, but Christopher Leinberger says Elrich is thinking about it all wrong: better transit creates more and better development, and more… Keep reading…
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Whitman-Walker project has positive impacts, too
Yesterday, developer JBG Companies, opposing neighbors, and advocates faced off before the Board of Zoning Adjustment for a hearing about the proposed development on the Whitman-Walker site on 14th between S and Swann. Keep reading…
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Preservation very different up the coast
For good or ill, it’s much, much easier to landmark a building in DC than in our fellow Northeastern cities. In New York, the Landmarks Preservation Commission doesn’t even act on many landmark requests, and can’t stop developers from ripping off historic cornices to avoid landmark designation. The Commission declined to preserve St. Thomas the Apostle Church… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Things that stink
The “smelly fish under the table”: Purple Line supporters argue in the Post that the Purple Line will bring job access and development opportunity to poorer eastern Montgomery and Prince George’s, and that opposition stems at least in part from “elitism” and a desire to keep those brown people out of their areas. Keep reading…
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Affordable housing clashes with the suburban mindset in Wheaton/Kensington
The interaction of supply and demand is one of the most fundamental relationships governing prices in any kind of market. Housing prices in Montgomery County, and the Washington region as a whole, remain unaffordable for many middle-income workers. Keep reading…
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Zoning Commission nominee Keating supports Smart Growth and TOD
Unlike in many cities, the DC Council doesn’t have the authority to review or influence zoning regulation changes or large-scale development projects. Instead, the Home Rule Act gives that power to the Zoning Commission, made up of three DC appointees and two federal representatives. Some feel this yields better results, isolated from politics and the corrupting effect… Keep reading…
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On the calendar: modern, new, and fast
There’s one week to go until Thanksgiving, and Greater Washington has some exciting events to pass the time: Keep reading…
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This alternative is technically impossible because neighbors would complain
Do transportation consulting companies really provide unbiased analysis, or do they simply conclude whatever their paying client wants to hear? Keep reading…