Posts about Maryland
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Dinner links: cheap, plentiful parking spaces are like clean coal
I got a new way to park: WebUrbanist finds “15 Creative, Innovative & Hilarious Parking Solutions”, from the giant VW factory cavern to falling into quicksand. Via Planetizen. Keep reading…
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Weekend reading I: Maryland transportation watch
Parking min blocking new restaurant: Former Colorado Kitchen chef Gillian Clark is ready to open a restaurant, The General Store, in Silver Spring (at Forest Glen and Seminary Roads). The only problem is, county parking rules require 30 spaces, and they only have 7. Instead, they can only serve carryout customers. Dual tip from David and Becca. In other parking minimum news, Ithaca,… Keep reading…
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Town of Chevy Chase takes ball, goes home, calls referee a cheat
The Town of Chevy Chase’s official comments (large PDF) on the Purple Line DEIS Keep reading…
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Dinner links: hungry for good architecture, stimulus money
Not so historic: Prince of Petworth posts a very non-historic building in Capitol Hill. Good reason to have historic preservation laws, or a nice addition of variety to the block? Keep reading…
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Arlington’s TDR program misses Montgomery’s high standard
Arlington recently created a Transfer of Development Rights” (TDR) program. It’s a good start, but so far, it leaves out some of the most valuable components which have made Montgomery County’s a model successful program, protecting the county’s rural and historic land in a way that works for farmers and developers. Though they have existed for nearly… Keep reading…
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Let’s declare war on calling transportation arguments “war”
Maryland Politics Watch has a roundup of the Purple Line debate with the inflammatory headline “MTA Declares War on Chevy Chase.” In the lede, MPW’s Adam Pagnucco calls the DEIS “a Declaration of War on rail opponents in the Town of Chevy Chase.” Keep reading…
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Wasteful development at Landover Metro
It’s no secret that Prince George’s County is lousy at developing around its Metro stations. But check this madness out by Landover Metro station on the Orange Line: Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Unexpected consequences
Save the trail, prevent other trails: Creators of the Capital Crescent Trail always intended it to run along with transit. A bike trail was a good immediate use of a temporarily unused transit ROW. Now that Montgomery residents opposed to transit are opposing the Purple Line because of the trail, one original trail planner regrets creating it in the first place. And, WashCycle explains,… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Make a difference
Live in Montgomery County? Park and Planning is surveying residents on “how we manage growth, … [and] enhance quality of place in our communities.” Weigh in for more walkable, mixed-use places over auto-dependent sprawl. Also, there’s just one more week to submit public comments to MTA Maryland in support of the light rail Purple Line. Keep reading…
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Indian Head’s bottleneck
Wedged between Southern Avenue, the Beltway, Oxon Hill Farm, and Glassmanor Park is the quiet suburb of Forest Heights, a small municipality of about 2,500 on DC’s southernmost border with Prince George’s County. Isolated from other county municipalities, Forest Heights is otherwise what one might expect to find in Prince George’s County: a predominantly… Keep reading…