Posts tagged Ledroit Park
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Some LeDroit Park residents want to remove bike lanes. Tell DDOT not to do that!
If you live, work, walk, bike, or drive in LeDroit Park, please thank DDOT for adding bike lanes to the area and ask them not to consider removing them. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Yes, you have to build housing
You promised affordable housing; Losing your joint; Low housing alert; Hassles of housing; Bike lanes for Irving Street?; The price of Purple delays; A better Amtrak; Sexual harassment, too; The loopiest bus. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: New year, old headways
In case you missed it; Heeding old headways; Housing our homeless; First step for flooding; Preventing shark-infested waters; Small living in Big Apple; Poetry in motion. Keep reading…
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House prices are skyrocketing in central DC neighborhoods, but not in outlying ones
Have house prices in your neighborhood doubled or tripled in the last decade or so, making buying a house seem far out of reach? Or did the bust leave many house and condo owners underwater and they still haven’t recovered? It depends on where you live. Keep reading…
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I can take the bus from my neighborhood to just about anywhere in DC
I’d love for more of my neighbors to consider riding the bus, so I made a spider map to show just how far we can go on all the routes that run through where we live. It turns out that on the bus, we can go from LeDroit Park to nearly every other part of DC. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Turning it around
A park for Silver Spring?; Plow the trails, Arlington!; Pause for Montgomery’s urban roads bill; Democrats embracing urbanism?; Historic and empty; How boring; No biking for you… ever; Camera clips; And…. Keep reading…
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Plans seek to keep Mid City East affordable
The neighborhoods north of Union Station are one of the last affordable, walkable areas close to downtown DC. Can an area change for the better while keeping prices low? That’s what DC’s trying to figure out with the Mid City East Small Area Plan and Livability Study. As U Street to the west and NoMa to the east have boomed, the Mid City East neighborhoods of LeDroit Park,… Keep reading…
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Events roundup: School’s out (almost)
Thanks to everyone who came to our resurrected happy hour Wednesday night! Still hungry for more conversation? Over the next 2 weeks, you can learn about pedestrian safety in Montgomery County and DC, talk about the future of Prince George’s and Tysons Corner, and hear about the intersection of food and smart growth. Take it outside in MoCo: Tomorrow, join the Action Committee… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Stop the madness
Use McMillan site to stop flooding?; Trade the FBI for the Redskins?; Cyclist stabs driver; Rail yard construction could delay Silver Line; Wards 1 & 2 making the most children; Development along Lee Highway?; Fairfax wants funds from Pentagon; And…. Keep reading…
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Howard Town Center doesn’t need an $11 million tax break
The DC Council today will vote on an $11 million property tax break for the Howard Town Center that the DC CFO insists is unnecessary. At a time of crumbling schools and budget cuts, we can’t afford to hand out optional property tax abatements like Santa Claus. What else could we do with $11 million? It costs $11 million to modernize Stuart-Hobson Middle School… Keep reading…