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  Report from the Summit on American Prosperity

  Larry Martin | Wed, Jun 25th, 2008 | Category: Events | Tags: transportation, news, building, economics, larry martin, events, website, summit, brookings, metropolitan policy program, summit on american prosperity | 0

  Over 900 attendees from 32 states attended the Summit for American Prosperity where policies were discussed and a network of cities formed. The agenda was the centrality of American cities as engines for economic prosperity.

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  Sprawl in D.C. is Sputtering to a Stop

  Larry Martin | Mon, Apr 21st, 2008 | Category: Report | City: Washington, D.C. | Tags: transportation, news, suburbs, economy, growth, transit, jobs, mortgage, metro, 2008, washington dc, larry martin, bus, consumers, inflation, traffic, sprawl, gas prices, virginia | 0

  Sprawl in the Metro-DC area has all but stopped.  The deflating housing bubble, price inflation and the economic downturn accomplished (at least temporarily) what slow-growth advocates were achieving at best, very slowly.  However, with a growing economy the DC suburbs are reeling not only from the sub-prime mortgage bust; there are strong indications that the region’s residents are beginning to calculate the cost of transportation to and from work into their housing selection.

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  Washington DC’s Affordable Housing Follows the Money

  Larry Martin | Mon, Mar 31st, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Washington, D.C. | Tags: building, larry martin, condominiums, affordable housing, washington, dc | 0

  DC’s Mayor Fente has been winning friends among low-housing advocates with pledges to fund, build and preserve 14,000 affordable housing units over a four-year period. During the past years of pumped up real estate values, over 200 low to moderate income apartment buildings were flipped into condominiums, circumventing a city law to give tenants first right of refusal. The City’s regulatory agency allowed systematic abuse of residents by landlords to force them to move. Can affordable housing rebound during leaner revenue years, when pressure to convert from affordable rentals to condominiums is reduced?

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  Planning for environmental concerns in DC: What are we waiting for?

  Larry Martin | Wed, Jan 23rd, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: washington dc, larry martin, smart growth leadership institute, mayor adrien fenty, risk assessment, environment team, harriet tregoning | 0

  When the new Washington, DC Planning Director, Harriet Tregoning, appeared before the DC Environmental Planning Network last spring, she was facing a friendly audience. Prior to taking the job in DC, she had been working for the Smart Growth Leadership Institute, and before that, she played a similar role for the State of Maryland and the US EPA. What big juicy initiatives did she have in store for us?

  Well, how about a voluntary initiative for DC hotel guests to contribute to a…

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  Moving toward affordable housing

  Larry Martin | Wed, Dec 19th, 2007 | Category: Commentary | Tags: washington dc, larry martin, real estate, condominiums, affordable housing, penn quarter, potomac river flood, west end | 0

  For about a decade now, an indicator of economic activity in DC has been the number of erection cranes you can count as you as you drive down into the Potomac River flood plain from upper Northwest. You can pretty much see all of the downtown and a good bit of the Southwest and Southeast too from the piedmont above downtown. I counted the largest number a couple years ago—28.

  The City was building aggressively, with Gallery Place (about 5 blocks north of the National Mall) completing…

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  Transporation Futures in Metro-Washington DC

  Larry Martin | Sat, Nov 17th, 2007 | Category: Commentary | City: Washington, D.C. | Tags: metro, washington d.c., larry martin, mass transit, transportation board, rmas, metro washington, capital region, transportation futures | 0

  All the places we live in are unique and have their own particular challenges. Among the challenges that make Washington, DC unique is our absence of representation in Congress, despite the fact that a Congressional committee has direct oversight of our City’s budget and must approve all legislation passed by the DC City Council. Remember that old line from civics class—No Taxation Without Representation? Well, it does not apply to DC (our license plates read: “Taxation Without…

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