Breakfast links: Navy Yard is set to boom
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DC’s Navy Yard is set for massive growth
The new plan for The Yards will add 3,400 residential units, 1.8 million square feet of office space, a hotel, a woonerf, and 400,000 square feet of residential space along the Anacostia River. The groundbreaking will be in 2019, but it will take until 2030 to build everything. (Michelle Goldchain / Curbed)
Get ready to pay for your Metro trip with your phone
Metro plans to institute a mobile payment option in 2019 where riders can pay for train or bus trips by tapping their smart phone instead of a SmarTrip. Metro is also developing a SmarTrip app, so people can add value to their cards without going to an in-station kiosk. (Martine Powers / Post)
The DC Council approves TOPA exceptions
The changes to the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act mean that renters in single family houses no longer have the “right of first refusal” if their building is sold. The bill does have exceptions to extend TOPA rights to elderly and disabled residents. (Urban Turf)
Dockless bikeshare arrives in Norfolk
Norfolk has launched a 250-bike dockless bikeshare system called Pace, from the Zagster bike company. Unlike some other dockless operators, Norfolk's Pace bikes must be locked to a bike stand at the end of their trip. (Jordan Pascale / Virginian-Pilot)
Christopher Leinberger challenges conventional wisdom about gentrification
In this interview, smart growth developer Christopher B. Leinberger says if you want to stop displacing people in old urban neighborhoods, you should build new ones. Leinberger talkes The Wharf, zoning, and walkable urbanism in the region. (Washington Monthly)
George Washington students want to live off campus, against university policy
Some GW students have submitted fake documents or made up excuses to get off-campus housing waivers. The school requires most freshmen, sophomores, and juniors to live in campus housing, but GW housing costs students more than they would pay for sharing an apartment. (Sarah Roach / The GW Hatchet)
Rockville will shift to voting by mail
Rockville will send voters their ballot to return by post starting in November 2019. The city hopes that this move will boost their low electoral turnout, though in-person polling will still be available. (Jennifer Barrios / Post)
What it was like to report on the 1968 riots in DC
Jack White was a young, black reporter in DC in 1968, where he both witnessed and covered the civil unrest that broke out in the wake of Martin Luther King's assassination. He was interviewed about the riots, journalism in DC, and his own life after that point. (Marilyn Milloy / CityLab)
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