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Opposition to affordable housing in Chevy Chase, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

s Chevy Chase neighborhood in uproar over affordable housing ," about how proposals for a new Chevy Chase Community Center, incorporating a variety of improvements as well as housing above, which could be either 100% affordable housing or partial, are being met by opposition. housed the homeless in upscale apartments.

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The unintended consequences of converting office buildings to housing: the need for public safety; schools; amenities

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

It had been happening for decades (" Having a Longer View on Downtown Living ," Eugenie Birch, University of Pennsylvania, 2002; Get Urban!: To riff off this, there are five other elements at a minimum that matter a lot, that cities aren't budgeting or planning for, if their central business districts become meccas for housing: public safety.

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Urban planning when things are going well: DC, 2014 (The Office of Planning under Harriet Tregoning)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Development of new housing and retail is happening even outside of the city core, albeit mostly centered around subway stations (Columbia Heights, Petworth, Fort Totten, Takoma, U Street), but even in a couple areas (14th Street, H Street) where subway access is tangential. U Street NW. Revival spreads beyond the city core.

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Responding to retail decay in Friendship Heights (DC/Montgomery County, Maryland)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Once home to a Neiman-Marcus department store, now closed, it's going to be torn down and redeveloped into retail and housing. In the beginning of my Main Street days (2002) districts like Dupont Circle pushed for being included. DC and Montgomery Co. are working on it ").

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Celebrating 20 Years of Land Banks in Michigan

Center for Community Progress

Michigan’s first land bank was founded in 2002 as the Genesee County Land Reutilization Council (now the Genesee County Land Bank ) by Dan Kildee , who later went on to be one of the cofounders and first president of the Center for Community Progress.

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Partnership unveils the 2024 Service to America Medals® finalists

Partnership for Public Service

Honoring our finalists Since 2002, the Partnership has honored over 760 public servants whose accomplishments contribute to the health, safety and well-being of our country and have provided people with a call to public service. On Thursday, May 9, this year’s nominees gathered at the Partnership headquarters in downtown Washington, D.C.,

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2023 Year-End Boxscore Charts, Billboard Magazine

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Mike Kepka, San Francisco Chronicle, 2002. The reality is that he was right (" More sports: sports-anchored entertainment districts and LA Live." I was too parochial. Look at all the people going to a San Francisco Giants baseball game, and taking transit.