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Apr 1, 2013

Laine Cidlowski AICP Urban Sustainability Planner and Tanya Stern Chief of Staff DC Office of Planning

Mar 27, 2013

Last Thursday Henry Cisneros former HUD Secretary under President Clinton spoke at an event organized by the Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers as part of its Brightest Minds series .

Mar 14, 2013

Washington now that the sequester is officially here what does it mean for your community? Will you see the value of your home decrease in a similar way to the housing market crash in 2008? Hopefully not. But to answer this question you might first ask yourself if you live in a walkable urban place? That’s because during the last recession the Great Recession walkable urban places fared much better than others.

Mar 7, 2013

In 2012 the Transportation Planning Board funded a study to evaluate the risk that development pressure and rising property values might permanently “price out” lower-income households near ten transit stations in the Washington region.

Feb 27, 2013

2012 was busy for the Region Forward Coalition with several key projects being completed such as the first Region Forward Progress Report and an updated Activity Centers map outlining priority growth areas for the region.

Feb 22, 2013

Nicole Steele Alliance Commission on National Energy Efficiency Policy & Julia Allman Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments

Feb 19, 2013

In 2005 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said our region was not meeting its fine particle (PM 2.5) pollution standards. This meant pollution levels were too high and that area leaders through COG’s Metropolitan Washington Air Quality Committee needed to devise a plan to clean the air.

Feb 14, 2013

New forecasts released yesterday show metropolitan Washington’s population growing by more than 30% over the next few decades reaching nearly seven million by 2040 .

Feb 1, 2013

Metropolitan Washington regularly finds itself at or near the top of a lot of lists. Some of these distinctions are good such as being the most educated region in the country and some of them are bad such as being one of the most expensive places to live.

Jan 8, 2013

Regional leaders voted today to approve an updated set of Activity Centers for metropolitan Washington.* These 141 Centers include existing urban centers traditional towns transit hubs as well as areas expecting future growth.