By David Alpert (Executive Director) • October 7, 2019
Way back in 2016, when we thought updating DC’s Comprehensive Plan would take merely a year or two, GGWash, alongside affordable housing groups, tenants’ organizers, developers, and others, formed the Housing Priorities Coalition. We didn’t agree on everything, but coalition members were willing to put aside differences to craft amendments to the Comp Plan on which they could unite.
By Mark Rodeffer (Elections Committee) • October 7, 2019
Four DC Council candidates on Friday morning signed a pledge not to take campaign contributions from Pepco, Washington Gas, and fossil fuel companies. Ward 2 candidate Daniel Hernandez, Ward 4 candidate Janeese Lewis George, and Ward 7 candidates Kelvin Brown and Anthony Lorenzo Green signed a poster listing the three provisions of the pledge.
By Alex Baca (Housing Program Organizer) • October 7, 2019
The GGWash elections committee is currently in the process of endorsing a candidate for the Ward 2 council seat, in advance of the June 2020 election. As part of this process, we sent a questionnaire to each candidate who has filed to run. Our questionnaire contained three sections, covering the broad issues that we routinely cover on the blog and around which we regularly advocate: housing, transportation, and land use.
By Jane Green (Development Director) • October 7, 2019
Do you think DC is ready for the changes that autonomous vehicles will bring to the region? We know they’re coming, it’s just a matter of time. A report prepared by DC Sustainable Transportation outlines four potential scenarios for the impact autonomous vehicles could have in the next 50 years. Come learn about it!
Metro says it has ruled out a signal system failure as the cause of the Monday morning crash near Farragut West where the driver of one passenger-less Metrorail train going 11 mph collided with another passenger-less train stopped on the tracks. (Jordan Pascale / WAMU)
In Silver Spring Monday, the Montgomery County Department of Transportation debuted a reconfigured four-way stop protected intersection featuring curved islands designed to slow down drivers making turns and brightly painted green bike lanes. (Kate Masters / Bethesda Beat)
Maryland resident Oliver Romain, 28, died Wednesday after an SUV driver crashed into his motorcycle. The SUV driver had accelerated into the intersection of Kansas Avenue and Madison Street near Fort Slocum Park. (Andrew Giambrone / Curbed)
Unlike Maryland and Virginia, which fund state archives to store, catalog, and make accessible historic records dating back centuries, indifference by the DC government has left millions of documents related to the history of DC to rot in a converted stable without appropriate climate control or space for researchers. (Post)
The Ballston Business Improvement District began installing neighborhood signs with its new black, white, and orange branding along Fairfax Drive, Glebe Road, and near the Ballston Metro station. It also launched its new slogan: “Life is Full.” (Kalina Newman / ARLnow)
Developer Urban Atlantic filed plans for a three-story, 56- to 68-unit senior affordable housing project at the intersection of 14th Place and Savannah Place, about a half-mile from the Congress Heights Metro station. (Jon Banister / Bisnow)
Among the ten facts about Friendship Heights is how improved access to public transportation, first via the streetcar and later the Metro, led to the neighborhood’s inevitable growth and battles with NIMBYs. (Yasna Khademian / DCist)
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