Breakfast links: A new tax for ride-hailing passes the DC Council
Ride-hailing companies will face a new tax in DC
The DC Council voted to raise taxes on ride-hailing companies from 1% to 6% in the new city budget. The hike goes into effect October 1, but at least one councilmember said he wants to adjust the tax to have a lower rates for shared trips first. (Jordan Pascale / WAMU)
The plan to widen I-270 is labeled a “boondoggle”
Governor Larry Hogan's $9 billion plan to add more lanes the I-270 and the Capital Beltway landed on the US Public Interest Research Group's annual list of worst highway boondoggles, or the plans that spend the most money to make the least positive change. (Neal Augenstein / WTOP)
Arlington has fewer and fewer affordable homes
The Northern Virginia Housing Alliance found that since 2000, about 14,500 homes in Arlington have gotten so expensive they are no longer considered market affordable. Arlington has added price controlled affordable units, but only about half as many of those units exist as former market-rate ones. (Alex Koma / ARLnow)
Poplar Point development is facing zoning appeals
A piece of land slated for largescale development east of the Anacostia River, including possible Amazon HQ2 locations, is facing a zoning challenge. Residents and nonprofits say that it will change the makeup of the neighborhood and is based on discriminatory DC housing policy. (Jon Banister / Bisnow)
Fairfax County wants to widen Route 7
The Fairfax County board of supervisors voted to kick in $40 million to a project to widen Route 7 north of the Dulles Toll Road and include a shared use path for cyclists and walkers. They also approved a VDOT plan to put a shared use bridge and path in Tysons to cross the Beltway. (Brian Trompeter / Inside NoVA)
A federal court rules VA districts are unfairly gerrymandered
A Virginia court ruled that 11 state delegate districts were drawn in a way that discriminates against black voters by the Republican-controlled House of Delegates after the 2010 census, and ordered them fixed by October. (Rachel Weiner / Post)
Problems with Maryland voting rolls could delay thousands of ballots
A computer glitch affected voter addresses, meaning that 80,000 Maryland voters had to cast provisional ballots in Tuesday's primary. Those votes won't all be counted until July 5 and could swing close races like the too-close-to-call Montgomery County Executive Race between David Blair and Marc Elrich. (Andrew Metcalf / Bethesda Beat)
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