Breakfast links: Where it’s big

Where are the big apartment buildings?

DC released a map of all residential buildings with more than 100 units.  Connecticut and Massachusetts Avenues, Foggy Bottom, Southwest, and Columbia Heights sport high concentrations. (DC Address Coordinates)

I cannot tell a lie

The National Capital Planning Commission approved NPS’s plans to chop down cherry trees along the Tidal Basin trees along the roadway to the Jefferson Memorial to make way for a security barrier.

Correction: NCPC has clarified that none of the trees to be cut down are cherry trees.

Metro wants your input

WMATA has

had posted an online survey asking for rider input.  A big part of the survey explores how to communicate the Franconia-Greenbelt “Blue Line Realignment”/“Yellow and Orange Line Service Increase.” Update: Now the survey says it is closed. (Joshua D.)  (Tip: Joshua D.)

Brown asked to resign

Arlington’s Jay Fisette confirmed everyone’s suspicions that former County Manager Michael Brown was asked to resign. (TBD, Stacy)  (Tip: Stacy)

Reduce blight and close the budget gap

As of October 1, vacant properties in DC face a 5% tax.  Blighted properties face a 10% tax.  If only the DC government would sell some of its own blighted properties. (DCist)

The big, greener apple

NYC greenhouse gas emissions dropped 12.9% between 2005 and 2009, in large part from diesel buses improvements, better subway power use, and exporting city waste on trains instead of trucks. (Streetsblog)

More than tunnels

It didn’t start with the tunnel. New Jersey suffers a long history of unwise land use policy. According to a Rutgers study, it may be the first state to develop every bit of unprotected land. (Market Urbanism)