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Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 11, 2022

In transportation, it means that private parking resources are usually not addressed in parking planning (" Testimony on parking policy in DC ," 2012), private sector operators aren't addressed in planning for various modes. In solid waste, it means that the agency only plans wrt residential waste pickup for houses of 1-4 units.

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation Operations Transportation Sanitation

Capital One Arena, Wizards and Capitals may move to Alexandria | Why not the RFK campus?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Since 2003, when I was on the board of H Street Main Street, and advocating that the group create a housing growth strategy in its retail trade area, I suggested that the RFK parking lots, especially along Benning Road, should be converted to housing and mixed use development. Because downtown D.C. has come back to life.

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation 2014 Development Events

What is the competitive advantage for the post-covid city? Doubling down on place values

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 9, 2022

Five are under the city-- Liberty, Pioneer, Fairmont, Jordan, and Sunnyside, and one, Sugar House, is owned by the city and county both, and run by an independent authority (I'm on the board). I'm not into it, but it's a kind of extension of that idea, but for space and place. Flickr photo by Chiara Coetzee. There are six large city parks.

2016

2016 Management 2012 2020

Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Four | Seasonality, Activation and Public Art as an element of facilities

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 26, 2024

My writings on daypart planning (" Planning programming by daypart, month, season: and Boston Winter Garden, DC's Holiday Market, etc. ," 2016) are relevant to parks planning too. Sugar House Park, Salt Lake City. Seasonality. Plan for time of day and day of the week sure. Make accommodations as needed, from lighting to snow clearance.

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation Events 2016 Press Release

What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

While this might not be dense for a much bigger city, Sugar House is becoming the densest SLC neighborhood outside of downtown, especially along the Trax light rail line. The issue is two-fold, dealing with nonresidents working in or visiting the district, and with residents in their trips outside of the district and within the district.

Transportation

Transportation Management Parks And Recreation Housing

Grocery stores in cities: the failure of the "15 minute grocery store"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 17, 2023

Even though the Lee's was outside of our neighborhood, we shopped there occasionally because it is a couple blocks from the house of close friends. and his wife, Kathie, announced in 2016 that they would bankroll the construction of a grocery store in the city’s East End. The area is home to some of the city’s poorest families.

Nonprofit

Nonprofit Press Release Development 2012

Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This was proposed a number of years ago for EM, first in the Barry Administration and then around 2012-2013, but the vendors fought it, with the support of now Mayor Muriel Bowser. Cannon's Steak House was a premier restaurant in the old Florida Market District, just like St. Anselm's is today. Postcard image.

Nonprofit

Nonprofit Development Management Events

The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 4, 2024

Introduction In November of last year, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) published a report 1 (the Report) recommending reforms for the Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) System. 5 The similar key behaviors exhibited by both F&F and the FHLBanks should not come as a surprise. This was all laid out by Congress in their charters (i.e.

2008

2008 Legislation Housing 2004

Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

The third is preserving housing. I talked about this during the design process, and now that I am on the board of a park, I am proved right. There just aren't that many jobs. And my park is 110.5 Should have been addressed for decades. Plus the real problem in Anacostia is a broken micro-economy.

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation 2014 Education Development

Milwaukee’s three-pronged strategy to reduce teen pregnancy: An interview with Bevan Baker, Commissioner of Health, City of Milwaukee, and Nicole Angresano, United Way of Greater Milwaukee – Episode #118

Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

APRIL 13, 2016

It has been recognized as a model of community collaboration, including by the White House Council for Community Solutions. It exceeded that goal, three years early, with a 50% decline in teen births by 2012. The three main prongs of the strategy are: An aggressive advertising campaign targeted to teens.

2008

2008 2004 2012 Campaign

Revisiting what I wrote about in 2010/2012 back to the fore: regional cultural funding in Greater Detroit

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 19, 2023

In 2010 and 2012 I wrote about such initiatives for the Detroit Zoo (actually located in Oakland County) and the Detroit Institute of Arts, which were caught up in the city's bankruptcy. That bill is before the House for final approval next week. Brooks Patterson (" The rise of Oakland County is built on Detroit's Fall ") died).

2010

2010 2012 Voting 2019

Another attempt to raise discussion about the DC Height Limit

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

When your commercial real estate market has tanked, it's a bad time to come up with a way to triple the amount of office space, although sure they want housing too, and focusing on adding housing is what Trueblood suggested was the value of pursuing a change. In other words, do the change because you're desperate.

Economic Development

Economic Development 2012 Development 2014

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 7, 2022

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. Or some housing on top of retail. People don't want to live in fear. cleanliness. Center cities can be pretty dirty.

Public Safety

Public Safety Parks And Recreation Housing 2006

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)

MARCH 10, 2023

The average guarantee fee (G-fee) of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), who currently finance about half of the nearly $13 trillion of outstanding first-lien single-family mortgages in the country, 1 is among the most closely-watched numbers by housing finance policymakers and the mortgage lending industry.

2008

2008 2014 2019 Press Release

Transit as a formula for local economic success and improvements in regional quality of life

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 24, 2023

Now the Intermodal Center just houses intercity bus services. -- Rio Grande Plan The plan proposes a tunnel to redirect the railroad passenger services back to the station, as well as a rerouting of the Trax Green Line, with railroad service in a tunnel behind the station and light rail service in front of the station.

Transportation

Transportation Economic Development Sustainability Development

The GSE Conservatorships: Fifteen Years Old, With No End in Sight

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

This week, September 6 to be exact, marks the fifteenth anniversary of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae – the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) - being placed into conservatorship by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). [1] This was publicly disclosed by Treasury Secretary Mnuchin in 2019.

Legislation

Legislation 2008 2012 2019

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Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

Capital One Arena, Wizards and Capitals may move to Alexandria | Why not the RFK campus?

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What is the competitive advantage for the post-covid city? Doubling down on place values

Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Four | Seasonality, Activation and Public Art as an element of facilities

What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

Grocery stores in cities: the failure of the "15 minute grocery store"

Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

Milwaukee’s three-pronged strategy to reduce teen pregnancy: An interview with Bevan Baker, Commissioner of Health, City of Milwaukee, and Nicole Angresano, United Way of Greater Milwaukee – Episode #118

Revisiting what I wrote about in 2010/2012 back to the fore: regional cultural funding in Greater Detroit

Another attempt to raise discussion about the DC Height Limit

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

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

Transit as a formula for local economic success and improvements in regional quality of life

The GSE Conservatorships: Fifteen Years Old, With No End in Sight

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