Scott’s Addition sells itself as a top destination overflowing with alcoholic amenities such as breweries, cideries, and distilleries. But there is one critical component of an urban neighborhood that the corridor lacks: sidewalks.
By George Kevin Jordan (Managing Editor) • July 12, 2021
Learn how to use the TransitCenter’s new Transit Equity Dashboard. Jubilee provides deeply affordable housing in DC. How local leaders can use HUD Section 108 Loan Guarantee programs to improve water systems, and more in this week’s urbanist events.
As the end of the public health emergency looks imminent, DC Council is set to consider a bill today that would extend the District’s eviction ban long enough for the troubled STAY DC rent assistance program to work. (Amanda Michelle Gomez / City Paper)
Montgomery County residents critiqued the $11 billion plan to widen I-270 at a public hearing Monday, saying the toll lanes would be a regressive tax and wouldn’t relieve traffic congestion, and voicing environmental concerns. (Steve Bohnel / Bethesda Beat)
Property management company Dittmar is asking Arlington County for permission to to rent out up to 75 furnished apartments as “flexible units” for short-term stays as it grapples with pandemic-era vacancies. The units are usually used for longer-term stays and vacant three months out of the year, the company said. (Jo DeVoe / ARLnow)
DC’s DMV has been appointment-only for months, and that pent-up demand led to long lines Sunday when the 95 M Street SW location opened for special weekend hours, causing residents to wait outside in the heat. Regular walk-ins resume next week. (ABC7)
Visitors will soon be able to ride a mile up the one-mile C&O Canal section through Georgetown on a contemporary take on a historic packet boat, to be powered in the traditional way: mules. The boat was lowered into the canal over the weekend. (Anne Tate / Washingtonian)
DC’s pandemic tenant assistance program, STAY DC, needs to use federal funds by the end of September or risk losing them. But the application process is difficult to navigate for many, and there isn’t enough help to go around. (Marissa J. Lang / Post)
DC’s homicide count passed the 100-person mark last week, hitting that grim threshold earlier in the year than it has since 2003. Homicides are rising in DC for the fourth consecutive year. (Peter Hermann / Post)
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