Posts tagged Public Land
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Hogan hopes to widen, privatize, and toll I-270, I-495, and the BW Parkway
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan is proposing to widen and add toll lanes to three of Maryland's biggest highways: I-270, the Beltway, and the Baltimore-Washington Parkway. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Democracy now
DC demands respect; How we gonna pay?; Not really inclusionary; Get us a traffic signal; Office vacancies; More trees please; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: In and out of Arlington
Housing or parks?; County flight; Vacant in Virginia; Taxicab share decreasing; Cycle law enforcement; Transit as a social good; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Cycle stats
Even more bike, lately; Trash can follies; Transit center blues; The Show-Me Station?; Shape Bethesda; Running from streetcars; Slow down; Selling public space for private gain; Drones of Brookland; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: What’s a public good?
Taking what’s not his; Omnipresent Internet; Parking for the people?; The rent is too high; But millennials are still coming; No gun necessary, use your car; Criminalized bike commute; Feelings getting in the way?; Red line woes; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Still waiting
Silver Line will be delayed again; Better cycling will follow Silver Line; Streetcar’s opponents forget history; Gray’s plan could worsen homeless troubles; Meet the new planning boss; New building could provide flexible units; Pedestrian deaths are no accident; Winter weather felt days later; You matter; Far from Folsom prison…; Reinventing America’s oldest railroad; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: For Rent
The rent is too high; Affordable housing saved; Affordable housing gone; DC’s changing demographics; ANCs losing weight; New plans for Columbia; I-66 going up; And…. Keep reading…
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DC mulls new affordable housing rules in public land deals
When the District government bids out city-owned property for development, it asks for affordable housing to be part of the deal, but how much is enough? Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie is proposing that 20-30% of the housing in any such deal be affordable for low-income households. On properties that DC has offered for development, like Parcel 42 in Shaw or the Hine School on Capitol… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Economic development
Public land deals come up short; CityCenter has to pay more?; Is Hill East weak?; Density helps tech industry; Smart Growth saves money; Why commute from Delaware?; DC may change gas tax too; Sinking. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Approval and rejection
Tysons pushes forward; Uber taxi app illegal in New York; Bethesda neighbors fear Bikeshare; LivingSocial’s Metro deal cost nothing; Cell phones wait on Metro; Alexandria wins rights to alley; DC’s murder rate has tumbled; Cities of canines; And…. Keep reading…