Fun new meetings on our Events page, most immediately a July 8 gathering on the Rt. 1 Plan. Rethink College Park provide a nice bit of data-driven context for this plan by tallying all the residential units and commercial square footage in the development pipeline at the moment. A recent note from Chad Williams at [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Growth’
July 3, 2009
Activists’ Guide to Surviving the Planning Board
A cooperative group of communities and citizens constitute the Indian Head Highway Area Action Council, Inc. and they work across community boundaries on quality of life and planning issues. They have recently updated and distributed their Activists’ Guide. With upcoming meetings and the slew of plans in the pipeline at Park and Planning, this may [...]
June 11, 2009
Public Input 101–FAIL
The new Mixed-Use Zone legislation’s progress has slowed down somewhat and M-NCPPC has heard from enough people about the lack of public input, that hey, they decided to do more! During the last week of school and on a Monday night, yippee! Hopefully you have received this postcard inviting you to a meeting next Monday, [...]
September 17, 2008
Meetings, meetings
and more meetings are sure to come. Please check the Events page for a list and links.
Plus East Campus is on the fast track for development review. If you care about this development and its impact, please file a Request to Become a Person of Record. This is a easy way to stay up to [...]
July 19, 2008
Updating the Route 1 Sector Plan
Planner Chad Williams of M-NCPPC will make a presentation on the Central US 1 Corridor Sector Plan and Sectional Map Amendment on Monday for the University Park Town Council (event details here). The public is invited and Mayor John Tabori hopes residents of neighboring communities will attend as well.
Williams will discuss the possibility of extending [...]
December 16, 2007
Schools, Purple Line Mtg. 12/17
and Other Important Odds & Ends
The Purple Line Open House will discuss the entire route and should be interesting. Especially since it seems a new southern route for the Purple Line through campus has surfaced. Map here. However, if this proposal is presented Monday, MTA, UMD and our elected officials need to allow further public [...]
December 15, 2007
Give a Gift To Our Economy: Shop Locally Owned This Holiday Season
by Stacy Mitchell
Our successful event with Stacy Mitchell, senior researcher with the New Rules Project, a couple weeks ago did not yield viable audio, but we can offer the slide show (you will need to hit pause between slides) and the article below which makes many of the points discussed. And to help you shop [...]
December 2, 2007
Heads Up on Schools
A couple time-sensitive items about schools for readers to follow:
On Monday, December 3, tune to WAMU radio (88.5 FM). Dr. John Deasy joins Kojo Nnamdi in the studio live from noon to 1:00 pm. Likely topics include a preview of the planned PreK-8 restructuring of county elementary and middle schools. We may [...]
November 27, 2007
Reminder: Stacy Mitchell on Connecting Retail & Growth to Community
Wednesday, November 28
7 pm Refreshments
7:30 pm Talk & Discussion
Hyattsville City Hall
4310 Gallatin St., Hyattsville MD 301-985-5000
Remember, we invited you? Join us.
As growth in the Route 1 corridor accelerates, what can we learn from other communities? How can we avoid becoming Anyplace USA? Can we use retail as a catalyst for good community development? [...]
November 17, 2007
Listen Up
The standing room only Route 1 Development Forum hosted by Council Members Campos, Dernoga and Olson began a conversation that is long overdue in our area, gathering our elected representatives with planners, school and state highway officials in one room to talk with their constituents about growth. Unsurprisingly, schools and traffic surfaced as the community’s [...]
November 10, 2007
You’re Invited: Connecting Retail & Growth to Community
with Stacy Mitchell of the New Rules Project
Wednesday, November 28
7 pm Refreshments , 7:30 pm Talk & Discussion
Hyattsville City Hall, 4310 Gallatin St., 301-985-5000
Given the fast pace of new projects in the Route 1 corridor, we th0ught it might be time for us to step back, draw a breath and look at how [...]
August 5, 2007
How about this idea? Economic & Community Impact Review
The most recent set of Cafritz meetings has passed and been memorialized. Rethink College Park has done a nice job of summarizing the meetings for those of us who were on vacation. Supposedly comments will be posted soon on the Cafritz site, however, the various slide shows promised at past meetings would be great.
Between work [...]
July 8, 2007
Schools, Overcrowding & the Capital Improvement Plan
An earlier blog entry asked where the kids would attend school if a family moved into one of the new developments in our area. Let’s take a look. On the EYA web site, I found a townhouse in the Hyattsville Arts District which has completed construction and is available to move in today. OK, I [...]
July 1, 2007
Beer, Comprehensive Plans & Retail
OK, that was completely shameless–the beer’s just to get your attention. But it is summer, we know your hammock is calling to you. So get one out of the fridge, let’s talk planning.
This article is reprinted with kind permission from The Hometown Advantage Bulletin, a free email newsletter published by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. [...]
June 28, 2007
Worries & Action
Route 1 Growth began with a series of, well…, worries, as we wondered what changes rapid development would bring to our crazy quilt of Rt. 1 communities and neighborhoods.
How will our already taxed infrastructure hold up, particularly Rt. 1 and E-W Hwy.?
What is the environmental cost?
Can our neighborhoods and towns maintain their history and sense [...]
