Posts tagged Upper Connecticut
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Fight over 5333 Connecticut reveals dysfunctional process
After decades of fighting, work began last month on a new residential building at 5333 Connecticut Avenue in Chevy Chase. While neighbors had few good reasons to oppose it, the project embodies the loopholes developers use in DC’s patchwork of building regulations and zoning. The 261-unit building has long been approved as matter-of-right. It will not be a great building,… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Unwanted developments
Wage bill threatens more developments; Mixed-use Safeway causes mixed feelings; Farm-to-table, literally; Enough money for Purple & Red?; ConNeb? Comet Corner?; Can merger save Detroit?; Same story, different places; And…. Keep reading…
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Men are from Rosslyn, women are from upper Northwest
Aimee Custis sent along a great map from Trulia, showing the ratio of single (straight) men to single (straight) women across the region: The Washington metropolitan area and “Bethesda-Rockville-Frederick,” which the Trulia data breaks out separately, have the nation’s highest ratio of women to men among the nation’s 100 largest metropolitan… Keep reading…
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Cafritz presents Chevy Chase building to skeptical neighbors
“This neighborhood doesn’t need any revitalizing,” said one resident who lives near 5333 Connecticut Avenue, NW, throwing back into developer Jane Cafritz’s face a newspaper quote where she said the proposed glassy, 9-story, 263-unit residential building would revitalize the neighborhood. Hearing this, the crowd of Chevy Chase DC residents,… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Worrying about parking
Chevy Chase building draws a fight; Evans demands parking privileges; Make cars louder?; FTA fixes funding priorities; Baltimore gets new cameras; Cancel games, lose revenue; Corporations ride free?; And…. Keep reading…
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Promised pedestrian fixes now “not a priority” for DDOT
DDOT and residents worked together to prioritize and fund pedestrian safety enhancements along Connecticut Avenue. Now, the agency has stopped moving forward and says the fixes are “not a priority,” according to pedestrian advocates. Last year, Connecticut Avenue Pedestrian Action (CAPA), organized by IONA Senior Services, worked with community volunteers… Keep reading…
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Lunch links: Attitudes in the city
Red light cameras catch unsafe driving; Opinions of fence flip over 20 years; Metro pass advocacy gets a site; Gray taking steps; MD could adopt station overlay districts; A tea party-urban coalition?; Hunger rising in suburbs; Shrinking cities grew in the core. Keep reading…
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Upper NW study suggests traffic calming, bike boulevards
DDOT has completed its “livability” study for upper Northwest neighborhoods, which recommends a number of changes to calm speeding traffic and improve pedestrian and bicycle safety. The study focused on Friendship Heights, Chevy Chase DC, Forest Hills, AU Park, and Tenleytown. DDOT tabulated motor vehicle, pedestrian, and bicycle crashes; surveyed residents… Keep reading…
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UDC will fix dead plaza with student center
The University of the District of Columbia wants to build a student center on what’s now an empty plaza creating a hole in the Connecticut Avenue streetscape right at the Van Ness Metro station. An active building here would be a big improvement over dead space. Keep reading…
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Ped/bike safety enforcement stories, part 3: Charles Schwartz
At Friday’s hearing on pedestrian and bicycle safety enforcement. Sally Schwartz related the story of her father, Charles Schwartz, killed at Connecticut and Nebraska Avenues by a driver allegedly on his cell phone. Keep reading…