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"Temporary" uses as a way to foil development: Bruce Monroe Elementary School site, DC | from school to park to housing

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I really like how the poster mis-states the original intention for the site, and of course, positions the use as a "giveaway to developers."

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Montgomery County Maryland Planning Board resigns

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Casey Anderson, chair of the Montgomery County Planning Board, in Forest Grove Park in Silver Spring in 2018. These debacles in MoCo have been the subject of multiple Metro section articles. We thank the commissioners for their service to our county.” John Kelly/The Washington Post) I'm saddened by this.

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Arbor Day: Street Trees of Seattle by Taha Ebrahimi | Trees as Cultural Landscape (at the community scale)

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She mentioned an article in the New Yorker about apples, " Crunch: Building a Better Apple ," and I was reminded of a story I read in a Toronto newspaper about an Italian immigrant who kept a fig tree going in his backyard for decades. Trees as place, trees as stories. Some died and we nursed the others.

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Manufactured Housing Is a Good Source of Unsubsidized Affordable Housing - Except When It’s Not: Q&A on Eight Key Policy Topics (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

14 A separate calculation by the Urban Institute, an MH supporter, from 2018 claims manufactured homes are 35 to 47 percent cheaper per square foot than site-built homes. Nevertheless, the advocacy I have found with respect to MH demonstrates some confusion regarding this fundamental. percent per year.

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National Volunteer Week: April 16th-22nd

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But there have been a bunch of Associated Press articles in my newsfeed, which clued me in. -- " Volunteers speak on why they serve and why more people don’t " -- " Nonprofits scramble for help amid dearth of volunteers " -- " New to volunteering? Nationally, the Safe Routes to School Partnership is the primary resource.

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Or is it just a case, in a highly politicized industry, of a politically convenient advocacy rationale to justify not increasing G-fees? 34] The CCF was later used, in 2018, as the basis for an initial proposal for a formal regulatory capital requirement, which included going out for public comment. But is this argument valid?

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Another attempt to raise discussion about the DC Height Limit

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Because that space doesn't exist in DC, either innovative uses don't develop -- such as the nonprofit advocacy sector, which as cheap spaces disappeared groups stopped being created counter to the heyday of the 1960s and 1970s -- or they develop in the suburbs. s height limit could reinvigorate downtown ").