Last month, Amtrak unveiled an ambitious plan to modernize and expand Union Station into a high-speed rail hub. But a coalition of historic preservation groups wants to make sure the station is preserved as a Beaux-Arts masterpiece.

Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie (D-Ward 5) and other groups are still pushing Mayor Vince Gray to move a streetcar maintenance and training facility from its proposed location on the grounds of Spingarn High School.

D.C. Director of Planning Harrier Tregoning and D.C. CFO Natwar Gandhi will speak on behalf of a proposal to raise height limits on D.C. buildings during a congressional hearing on Thursday.

When it comes to the District’s streetcars, the Committee of 100 on the Federal City is diametrically opposed to overhead wires. It’s just become kind of common knowledge among those who follow transit news in the region, kind of like how every Redskins fan knows that Dan Snyder will recklessly spend a lot of money on old free agents or everyone in town knows to stock up on bread before snow hits the area. But, in fairness to the C100, they don’t actually hate the idea of installing streetcars — far from it. At least that’s the takeaway from a 91-page report released by the Commission earlier this week.

As we noted this morning, the Committee of 100 on the Federal City fired off a letter to Mayor-elect Vince Gray earlier this week asking that he sack Department of Transportation director Gabe Klein and Office of Planning director Harriet Tregoning. The committee, which is made up of 153 people who advocate for planning and development based on the “values inherited from the L’Enfant Plan and McMillan Commission,” argued that Tregoning and Klein ruled their roosts much like their boss, Mayor Adrian Fenty, had — without any concern for public input.