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• Commented on Two Takes: Ryan Avent on Historic Preservation
  Highest and best use has two dimensions. But typically when the phrase is used, only one dimension is considered, that of the profit of the property owner solely, rather than community concerns. (In some respects, you could argue these are...
• Commented on Two Takes: Tom Lee on Historic Preservation
  One weakness of this argument is the failure to build the argument based on DC's competitive advantages. I argue that three of the five advantages relate to history: 1. historic architecture 2. urban design hailing from the Walking City (1800-1890)...
• Commented on Two Takes: Ryan Avent on Historic Preservation
  Ryan and others, while I agree with your sentiment on this building or the FBI building (etc.), it is important to have a strong framework/analytical structure to justify such decisionmaking from a legal standpoint, one that has intellectual and legal...
• Commented on No One Wants Outer D.C. Suburbs Anymore
  Yep. You're just quicker on the draw. Check out the USA Today article too: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/census/2009-03-18-census_N.htm . It has a graphic with county by county data that is pretty incredible....
• Commented on Morning Roundup: Meter for Meter Edition
  don't have time to read through all the comments but the original separated blue line proposal was always underground. Who in their right mind mentioned the word "elevated" anyway?...