Posts about Development
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Hot issues in Greater Washington
Welcome Marc Fisher and Atrios readers! Here are a few of the most popular recent posts on Greater Greater Washington: Keep reading…
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Another donut with too much parking at Eastern Market?
Reader D. attended a community meeting in late April about redeveloping the site of Hine Junior High at 8th and C Southeast, one of the school buildings slated to be closed. Barracks Row Main Street and Capitol Hill Restoration Society both passed identical resolutions calling for smart growth, mixed use facing Pennsylvania Avenue, green space, live-work studios, reconnecting… Keep reading…
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Be like Berlin
Paul Krugman tackles Americans’ unsustainable auto-dependent suburbs, arguing that the way out of this gas price crisis is to learn from the Germans: Keep reading…
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Brookland: save the environment somewhere else
As Brookland debates whether to build some higher-density housing next to its Metro station or preserve their “trash-strewn chain-linked blight,” as one resident put it, the “I’m an environmentalist but…” arguments are back. Keep reading…
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SimCity getting better, still a simplification
The original SimCity taught me it’s best to segregate commercial zones far from residential zones to make property values higher, and to build very large donut shaped superblocks. The 1960s form of urban planning that SimCity’s model rewards turned out to be totally wrong. Keep reading…
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Arlington rental proposal brings out immigrant phobia
Arlington is considering a proposal to allow homeowners to make rental units like basement apartments in their homes. It’s already legal in DC, as well as Montgomery and Fairfax. Today’s Post reports that many citizens are fighting the proposal, concerned that it will bring undesirable immigrants into Arlington. Keep reading…
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Scrutiny and liberty in zoning
At last week’s Low & Moderate Density zoning review meeting, the group discussed what aspects of the residential zoning code don’t work well. Many mapped to real problems with the zoning code, like the fact that numerous neighborhoods are illegal to build under the current zoning because most of the current buildings are closer to the lot lines than the rules allow. Keep reading…
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“Save our sprawl” in Brookland
Ryan Avent has been writing about local neighborhood opposition to development in his neighborhood of Brookland. As in Takoma, Metro and DC’s Office of Planning want to develop poorly utilized, unattractive land that’s mostly parking lots and unusable open space into residences and public plazas. Keep reading…
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The more things change
The New York Times ran an op-ed on Sunday about politicians running for President coming up with proposals to ease the pain of high gas prices. Only this op-ed was from the summer of 1996, when average nationwide prices were rising from about $1.07 a gallon to $1.23 per gallon. The author, Russell Baker, wrote: Keep reading…
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Greaterest Hits
First time here? Below are a few of the most popular posts from Greater Greater Washington recently: Transit Keep reading…