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If you think cars are a problem, get rid of your car, not your neighbors
There's a push in D.C. to selectively bar DC residents from getting Residential Park Permit (RPP) stickers. Developers of new buildings, as an incentive to winning approval for their project, will agree to bar provisions that bars its residents from RPP. I no longer own a car because, at this particular point in my life, there wasn't much need for one. But, nonetheless, feel very strongly about this issue: To create a class of citizens permanently barred from RPP is wrong. David Alpert, at Greater Greater Washington, recently summarized the issue . It begins: Councilmember Tommy Wells re-introduced legislation this week to let a developer of a new building promise that tenants can't get stickers to park on neighborhood streets, if they choose to offer such a guarantee to neighbors. People who end up in RPP-excluded building are going to be a permanent of class of very irritated residents. I would not be surprised if the buyers of these units have ...
Ugly, yet something else in the light
The Suntrust plaza at Columbia and 18th is not very inviting. It really doesn't encourage people to linger. It's not as energetic or interesting as the area around the Columbia Heights fountain, where children play and couples sit. What the plaza lacks can be described. What it can become is harder to imagine, especially on a chilly winter day when the late afternoon light stretches out the shadows.