Pages tagged with housing

Planning a High-Density, Transit-Oriented Future for Waldorf, Maryland
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

When high-capacity transit comes to downtown Waldorf, Maryland -- as the Maryland Transit Administration has been discussing for several years -- local planners want the site to be ready to handle the new development that they hope will accompany it. A 2010 study funded under the Transportation P

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Infrastructure deficit, U.S.-China climate challenges, regional economic growth, and more!
Monday, May 14th, 2012

It’s been awhile since we’ve done a round-up of posts here at The Yardstick and since we’ve covered so many topics over the past couple of months, we thought we’d sum them up in case you haven’t had a chance to see them all: Metro Washington and the U.S. as a whole are suffering from a

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Connecting people to the transportation planning process
Wednesday, April 11th, 2012

Twenty community leaders from around the Washington region recently attended a two-day workshop hosted by the Transportation Planning Board to learn about how transportation decisions are made in the region and how to become more involved in the decision-making process. Now in its sixth year, the

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Innovation and Urbanism: A Winning Combination
Friday, March 23rd, 2012

How innovative is your metro area? Jonathan Rothwell over at The New Republic breaks down some new OECD data on inventors per capita and applications for patents by country and by metro area. Rothwell notes that ten metro areas, which comprise only about two percent of the world’s population, acco

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Study to assess availability of affordable housing around existing and planned transit stations in region
Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

A study recently initiated in Prince George's County, the District of Columbia, and the City of Alexandria will assess the availability of affordable housing options near ten existing or planned transit stations where future development could cause home prices and rents to escalate. Funded throug

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Sustainable suburbs, solar power boom in Germany, and transit innovation (passes the US by)
Friday, February 24th, 2012

Building a sustainable suburb Diana Lind has a piece in Next American City that’s getting a lot of attention this week. In the piece she argues that it’s not constructive to blame the housing crisis on the suburban housing boom which predated it. Whether we like it or not, Lind argues that su

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Region Seeks Federal TIGER Funding for Access Improvements at 16 Rail Stations
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012

On March 19, the Transportation Planning Board will apply for $20 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation to make a number of high-impact bicycle and pedestrian access improvements around 16 Metrorail and commuter rail stations in the Washington region. The proposed project

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Tysons Corner & Surrey, BC: Transforming “Edge Cities” into Urban Centers
Friday, February 17th, 2012

An article from Atlantic Cities on the rapid development of Surrey, a former edge city near Vancouver, recently caught our eye, particularly in relation to the effort underway to transform Tysons Corner from a sprawling automobile-centric place to an urban center with transit, housing, and walkabili

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Implementing Region Forward: Q & A with RF Leaders
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012

We asked two leaders who are guiding the implementation of Region Forward to comment on the progress that’s already been made, what they’re looking forward to accomplishing in the coming year, and how RF impacts their own communities. Eric Olson is the Chairman of the Region Forward Coalition

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Ending homelessness involves providing more affordable housing
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

Housing is an essential element of Region Forward. And it pops up in some way in almost every blog post here at The Yardstick, usually in the context of the region’s need for much more affordable housing. Housing in metro Washington can be an extremely frustrating subject, given the region’s

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