Here's our roundup of this week's must-read posts. Support Missing Middle housing in Arlington! The real problem with fake tags. ADUs face obstacles in Virginia. Highway widening visions meet climate realities.
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Show your support for Missing Middle housing in Arlington this weekend
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by Dan Reed (Regional Policy Director) • March 15, 2023
Arlington could make it easier to build more affordable homes like duplexes, townhomes, and small apartment buildings – but the County Board needs to hear from you! Here's what we said about the Missing Middle zoning bill, and how you can show support.
Arlington isn’t full
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by Hector Arbuckle (Guest Contributor) • March 15, 2023
Arlington could house nearly a million new residents if it allowed five stories of apartments in its in areas where you can only build single-family houses today.
Fake tags are a real problem
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by Tom Lee (Guest Contributor) • March 16, 2023
Illicit license plates–whether fake, expired temporary, or shaded–protect dangerous drivers from facing any penalties for risky behaviors by making it impossible to identify them. Meanwhile these tags are being openly mass-produced and sold for profit online. Are DC policymakers ready to take it seriously?
Virginia isn’t making it any easier to build ADUs
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by Wyatt Gordon (Virginia Mercury) • March 14, 2023
ADUs are technically legal but practically unfeasible in Virginia. Why won’t state legislators make them easier to build?
Regional bodies may face climate reality check on highway-widening claims
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by Bill Pugh (Guest Contributor) • March 13, 2023
This spring, local jurisdictions and agencies will have to justify how their road projects will reduce emissions as part of an update to Visualize 2045.
National links: A breakthrough in sidewalk mapping
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by Jeff Wood (Contributor) • March 17, 2023
How sidewalk mapping can improve our cities. Electric vehicle batteries can be repurposed to power our cities. How red states fight their blue cities.
Photo Friday: Spring it on
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by Dan Malouff (Editorial Board) • March 17, 2023
Enjoy the pops of color and light in this week's Photo Friday, compiled with images from the Greater and Lesser Washington Flickr pool!
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