Yesterday I discussed Safeway’s plans to rebuild the Georgetown (“Social”) Safeway from a suburban style with a parking lot in front into an urban style fronting the sidewalk and (too much) parking behind. Transbay Blog has similar story from the West Coast from the Safeway in the Rockridge area of Oakland, California. There’s the same terrible suburban Safeway in a walkable neighborhood being replaced with a more urban design that still has too much parking. And there are the same NIMBYs out there too, of course—claiming that a two-story building will ruin Rockridge by blocking the sun and creating traffic.

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David Alpert created Greater Greater Washington in 2008 and was its executive director until 2020. He formerly worked in tech and has lived in the Boston, San Francisco Bay, and New York metro areas in addition to Washington, DC. He lives with his wife and two children in Dupont Circle.