Likes urbanism, land use, transportation, housing, racial justice, environment. Policy Director @betterDCregion.
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We've got a date: Nov. 20. Support upzoning of 1617 U St. NW Police/Fire stations - for affordable/mixed income housing & new public facilities. Send a letter to DC Zoning Commission & follow up by signing up to testify (virtually). Do it here: bit.ly/44eJPD8
Want safer streets in Prince George's? Check out CB 69 & event w/ @CMEricOlson: bit.ly/44feBvu
Fast, wide roads & slip lanes don't belong in mixed-use, connected communities. Good news: slip lanes are easy to fix! So are wide roads w/ on-street parking.
ALT Slip lane blocked off with low concrete barriers.
ALT Source: NACTO. Buffered bike lane, on-street parking lanes & 3 travel lanes.
Sign up to win better streets for walking, biking & riding transit! Hearing for bill is in mid-Sept. Sign up here: bit.ly/45xfjoZ
PGC has good policies & standards - now we need to ensure they are implemented. That's what CB 69, CR 67 & 68 do.
Downtown Largo this Saturday -- it's a placemaking festival! Pop up festival that's fun for the day & helps us imagine the future of Downtown Largo.
This Saturday, August 12, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., join your neighbors at the Placemaking Downtown Largo Festival to indulge in mouthwatering food, fantastic music, and a day full of fun activities. pgplan.org/placemaking.
#Placemaking #Largo #Community #FreeFamilyEvent #LoveMyLargo
That's the final approval for 440-home Metro station redesign! Even if opponents appeal, unlikely to slow a big, complicated project like this -- Takoma station development approved by D.C. Historic Preservation Review Board moco360.media/2023/07/27/tak… via @MoCo360Media
PGC: Get ready for Blue Line Corridor plan! Check out community mtgs & website. See all the yellow on the map? That's single family zoning - wrapped around Capitol Hts & Addison Rd Metros. Let's look at missing middle housing to invigorate the area.
bit.ly/3YdD8Qf
PGC Council Member @CMEricOlson bill proposes safer urban street designs around Metro stations & mixed use centers @ggwash ggwash.org/view/90367/with-p…
Join RISE Prince George's & @CMEricOlson for a virtual briefing on the bill CB 69, 8/15, 7 pm bit.ly/3DtR13f
Where and how should Prince George’s County grow? - in case you missed our July 18 conversation with PGC Planning Board Chair @PeterShapiro, check out the video. youtu.be/eYSpB6JuV5g
ALT Planning Board Chair Peter Shapiro and Bernard Holloway, RISE Prince George's moderator.
Tonight: Where & how should Prince George's grow? A conversation with Peter Shapiro, Planning Board Chair. 6:30 pm via zoom, RSVP bit.ly/44OF5Vl
DC is looking at ways to make better use of fire stations by adding housing. Not easy to build housing on top of fire station but can be done!
bit.ly/44oo1pm
Tomorrow: excited that we might finally decide to build a lot of housing around a much improved Takoma Metro station - after more than 20 years! 70 affordable homes, over 400 total homes, cafe-fronted plaza, usable greenspace, better bus waiting areas, walk & bike access.
This Thursday, the DC zoning commission will vote on whether to approve the Takoma Station planned unit development proposal (ZC 22-36). Ethan Goffman unpacks what’s at stake: ggwash.org/view/90211/440-un…
WaPo shows resistance to build dedicated affordable housing in Chevy Chase DC at civic site. We've joined with allies @Ward3Vision & @WIN_DC to demand follow thru on inclusive community plans & promises. bit.ly/44zvYI6
“We support affordable housing, but…” Yeah, sure. The most telling line in this piece: “People aren’t feeling in control of the process.” Affluent white Chevy Chase homeowners expect to be in control, to be deferred to at all times. washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/…
Cheryl Cort @cherylcort.bsky.social retweeted
📚 On Fri, July 14, join @Montgomery4All and @Ward3Vision at Politics & Prose for a talk on Richard Kahlenberg's "Excluded" and moderated by none other than @JerusalemDemsas!
Meet at 6pm at a local restaurant (TBD) and walk over to P&P with us!
RSVP: bit.ly/3NNEUmC
ALT book cover of Richard Kahlenberg's new book, Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See
Safer streets could be coming to Metro stations in PGC! Today @CMEricOlson introduced CB 69 - Walkable Urban Streets Act. Requires safer, slower streets around Metro & other centers, bans slip lanes. Implements 2017 Urban Street Design Standards. bit.ly/44dARqD. @WABADC
ALT 2017 Urban Street Design Standards, PG DPW&T.
What's the latest thinking on rent regulations? Check out this excellent presentation at PGC rent stabilization workshop by Urban Institute's @TinaPStacy, and Stephanie Brown, ULI/Minn. bit.ly/449xgK3
Hmm. Ward 3 has the tiniest dot: affordable housing produced vs. target for that planning area. More like a speck. Let's change this Ward 3! Where's the Chevy Chase library project? Where's the Wisc. Ave. Development Framework? Needs to be easier to build mixed income hsg in W3!
ALT Map of DC affordable housing production. Source: https://opdatahub.dc.gov/documents/813c9448830a49599af911b5530232d5/explore
Update: zoning commission decided U St police & fire station rezoning will be re-noticed as a “contested case” rather than just a rezoning. Sign up again to testify. Hearing will be in fall.
Think U St police & fire stations are underachievers? Yah, me too. Tell DC Zoning Commission to follow through on the 2021 Comp Plan changes calling for upzoning. We could have 200+ affordable homes & new public facilities here. Hearing is 6/26. bit.ly/3Nm9YcS
ALT Photo of U Street police station garage and fire station.
Think U St police & fire stations are underachievers? Yah, me too. Tell DC Zoning Commission to follow through on the 2021 Comp Plan changes calling for upzoning. We could have 200+ affordable homes & new public facilities here. Hearing is 6/26. bit.ly/3Nm9YcS
ALT Photo of U Street police station garage and fire station.