Breakfast links: Some new local apartment buildings offer recording studios
A small recording studio by Dejan Krsmanovic licensed under Creative Commons.
Some new DC apartment buildings have recording studios
Several proposed residential buildings in the District will include recording studios that residents can use to record podcasts and music. (Nena Perry-Brown / UrbanTurf)
Jack Evans allegedly threatened two Metro employees
Newly-released documents reveal that DC Councilmember Jack Evans, who recently resigned from chairing the Metro board, threatened both the transit system’s general counsel and board corporate secretary to prevent the details of an ethics inquiry from being made public. (Robert McCartney / Post, Jordan Pascale / WAMU)
Metro has no timeline for fixing cooling systems at Dupont and Farragut
Last month, cooling systems at three Metro stations - Dupont Circle, Farragut North, and Union Station - were all broken. The system at Union Station has since been fixed, but Metro isn’t sure when work will be complete on the two remaining stations. (Natalie Delgadillo / DCist)
Parking fees will return with the reopened Metro lines
Metro waived parking fees at the six Blue and Yellow Line stations that are currently closed for construction. When the stations reopen on September 9, parking fees will return. (Max Smith / WTOP)
Rowers worry about a proposed Anacostia River bridge
A proposed $13.1 million Anacostia River crossing would add more bike and pedestrian infrastructure to a section of the District that has sorely lacked it. But rowers fear a new bridge would make navigation more difficult and exacerbate existing sediment problems. (Luz Lazo / Post)
HUD’s proposed rule would make it harder to prove discrimination
A proposed rule recently issued by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development would make it more difficult to address housing discrimination by overwhemlingly putting the onus on plantiffs to provide evidence. (Solomon Greene and Martha M. Galvez / Urban Institute)
A Bay Area planner opens up the planning process to the people
According to Warren Logan, a planner for Oakland, California, public meetings are overwhelmingly attended by wealthier homeowners and aren’t convenient for lower-income people. That’s why he is trying to engage with a broader set of the public through opening houses and workshops to facilitate meaningful discussions on planning. (Sarah Holder / CityLab)
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