rllayman

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...

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. ur...

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 le...

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 p...

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?...

1. Pricing parking spaces comes out of the most basic ec. concept there is, opportunity cost. (And speaking of ac. heft, Shoup's work infuses what I wrote about parking too.) 2. I have updated my ...

Thanks for the mention. In a later post, I also included Michael S's proposal for a brown line or inner line in DC. There were some other suggestions in the comments, that will make it into a revise...