Posts about Development
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Is our city a little more suburban today than it was yesterday?
[Autoposted while I’m in France] Keep reading…
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Tonight’s and tomorrow’s meetings
[Autoposted while I’m in France] Keep reading…
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More WalkingTown tomorrow
[Autoposted while I’m in France Keep reading…
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Scatterplot of density vs. transit ridership
Responding to the Cities in Full chart I posted in “The outlier” yesterday, commenters pointed out that there’s a better way to graph the relationship between two variables than by overlaying two line graphs: a scatterplot. Commenter Ward 1 Guy created just such a graph. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Boston to Baltimore to Bloomingdale, oh my! edition
Close a road, reduce delays? We know that reducing lanes for cars can improve pedestrian safety, help a neighborhood, and lead to less traffic in the long run. But even Level of Service-minded traffic engineers can get behind closing certain roads. As the Economist reports, researchers studied Boston’s road network and determined that too many alternatives create more delay… Keep reading…
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The outlier
From Cities in Full by Steve Belmont (page 25): Keep reading…
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U Street biz debate BID
Should the U Street area create a BID? Last night, business leaders from the U Street and 14th Street corridors debated that very question. A BID can clean the streets better and more often than DPW would on their own, add additional police officers, and better coordinate with city agencies. On the other hand, businesses and apartment buildings would pay for those services through… Keep reading…
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Big box retail at Poplar Point?
And Now, Anacostia discovers a WBJ article reporting that private developers are planning big-box retail at the southern edge of Poplar Point, near the Anacostia Metro. According to the article (most of which is behind a pay wall): Keep reading…
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Afternoon links: More about Maryland edition
Girding for battle in Columbia: General Growth Properties, the owners of the commercial areas of Columbia, will release a plan soon to redevelop the mall and surrounding areas into a higher density, mixed use district (probably something like this. Is it a good plan to create a walkable downtown or overdevelopment in Smart Growth’s clothing? A new group just formed to advocate… Keep reading…
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Transforming Tysons with four unique districts
Last week, the Tysons Land Use Task Force released the most detailed vision report thus far. It divides Tysons into eight districts, four denser clusters (like villages) centered around each of the planned Metro stations, and four along the edges which will transition between the central density and the suburban surrounding neighborhoods. Keep reading…