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My neighborhood of Deer Park has fourteen Moderately Priced Dwelling Units. They're part of Montgomery County's nationally-recognized program requiring new subdivisions to set aside a percentage of units for people of limited means...
The parking lot where the Screen on the Lot series begins tonight.- Tonight's the first night of Screen on the Lot, the Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center's new outdoor film series...
Eighteen months after burning down in a mysterious fire, the original location of El Pollo Rico on Ennalls Avenue in Wheaton is slowly being razed...
Speaking of markets: the following is a guest post from Cary H., reviewing H Mart, the Asian supermarket at 12015 Georgia Avenue in Wheaton. If you've got something to say about the life and times of East County, JUTP wants to publish it...
what kind of culture does affordable housing createandres duany's lecture about concentrating affordable housingconcerns about fairland parkstudy about conspicuous consumptionaffordable housing should be integrated on the neighborhood level - it's not that east county has too much, it's that it's...
I like my fonts crisp and clean, especially if they're going to announce an important building, like a high school on a major street. That's why I love passing the recently-reopened Northwood High School...
Love this picture. Almost a little too much.- The Post's Jay Mathews profiles former Springbrook High principal/new School Board member Michael Durso, and the generation of school administrators he mentored during his four-decade career, which spanned Maryland, Virginia and the District...
The Dutch Country Farmers Market, local institution and purveyor of lemon squares, left Burtonsville for good Saturday...
I was an English major in addition to an architecture major in college, and have been known to write poetry or prose at one time or another (though it is always difficult to say that without sounding ridiculously pretentious)...
Happy Independence Day weekend! Every Fourth of July since 2007, I've been disappointed that I don't have any protest marches to go to, but I guess fireworks are almost as good. Where are you going to watch the fireworks...
Pretty much every blog is going to have some photo of a flag for the Fourth of July, so I decided to commemorate the people who take photos of flags...
A visitor to the soon-to-be-redeveloped Burtonsville Shopping Center.Two years after we first learned that the Dutch Country Farmers' Market would be moving from the Burtonsville Shopping Center, the HowChow blog reports that they'll be closing this Saturday, July 4 before reopening in "last August...
Go out to Maple Lawn in Howard County and you'll see people out on the streets, particularly around Looney's Pub, a new restaurant and bar in the planned community's so-called "Business District." But during the long, hot summer days, you'll only see the ice cream truck, weaving its way down...
- Former County Councilmember and Silver Spring resident Blair Ewing passed away Monday at 75 after a long battle with cancer...
My mother never bought the bench expecting someone would sit on it. But she and my brother spent an afternoon setting it up, laying a stone for someone to rest their feet on, planting flowers around it. She would see the arrangement every time she left the house and came home...
I was an English major in addition to an architecture major in college, and have been known to write poetry or prose at one time or another (though it is always difficult to say that without sounding ridiculously pretentious)...
Neighbors of the former Maryland College of Art and Design, vacated in 2005, complain it's become an eyesore.After a two-year fight to stop a housing development at the former Maryland College of Art and Design on Georgia Avenue, residents of the surrounding Carroll Knolls neighborhood are one step...
One of my earliest memories living in Downtown Silver Spring as a kid is of being in the car, on what I would later learn was Colesville Road, in front of a building I would later learn was called City Place Mall. Then it was just a big new thing that had appeared in my consciousness. I was four...
- A daylong standoff between Montgomery County police and a man in a Wheaton apartment who was allegedly keeping his girlfriend hostage came to an end yesterday evening when officers knocked down the door to find the place was empty...
When buildings get older they become consumed with self-doubt. Trendy when built, suddenly they're faced with the possibility they may be obsolete. Up and down our avenues, if you listen closely, you can hear the concerned mutters between sagging roofs and creaking floors: Are my windows too big...
A new Metrobus stops at Calverton Shopping Center.Metrobus service changes taking effect next Sunday will mean increased service for many East County riders, but several routes have been discontinued entirely...
It's three years today that I went on the morning commute that would change my life. Melodramatic, right? I never imagined in a million years that I'd still be doing this, that I would've met so many amazing people through it, and that it would land me my first job out of college...
A more detailed write-up about last night's meeting on the new Third District police station will come later this week.The language at last night's meeting about the new Third District police station in White Oak was toxic...
This house across from my brother's school looked like the end of a sad story. Empty driveway, recycling bins turned over, and a lawn that had grown into a meadow...
I wake up late during the summer, but not after a few false starts. Yesterday, the first time was around 8 a.m. or so. I heard my mother trying to explain to my father how to use the Metro. He works at Union Station, but usually drives there. I like having control over my commute, he says...
The Acorn Market at last year's South Silver Spring Block Party.Good morning. The Red Line is still out of commission after Monday's tragic accident, but as BeyondDC points out, Metro remains hundreds of times safer than driving as a means of getting around...
A bridge in Sligo Creek Park...
Having an American Apparel is an important thing for any aspiring city to have. It says, "We are cool and hip! We believe not in sweatshop labor...
The new Growth Policy proposes approving development based on transit capacity, not just highway capacity.- It's a big week for public meetings: Tonight, the Planning Board holds a hearing for the Annual Growth Policy, which seeks to create incentives for more compact, transit-oriented growth...
part THREE of a series adapted from Bethesda Magazine's "67 Things We Love About Bethesda" list. Got something you love about the east side? Help me get to 68 things by leaving a comment or shooting an e-mail to justupthepike at gmail dot com.Hampshire Greens...
No person earns more ire - or more sympathy - from drivers than the person asking for change at the stoplight...
Come back later today for a very, very important announcement on the future of Just Up The Pike.I didn't do it when I went to Montreal, or New Orleans, or Denver. But this time, I promised, I was going to write about my day trip to Philadelphia, like really really write about it. So . . ...
Not everyone can afford the country club, but the local swim club is an excellent way to burnish your snoburban pedigree because it can be just as exclusive, with waiting lists that can stretch for years...
Those four words are a miracle in and of themselves, especially in this economy...
The Planning Board wants to discuss how places like Clarendon in Northern Virginia came to be.- Interested in creating great places? The Planning Board's brought in U-Md. professor emeritus/Post columnist/my hero (or one of several) Roger K...
In less than twenty-four hours, the era of analog television will be over - and, all across the nation, we'll be saying goodbye to the boxes that brought a simpler, non-digital world to our homes...
East Silver Spring's "Auto Row" in 2007.- Following an investigation by the state's attorney general office, the gossip website PeoplesDirt.com shut down this week...
It was pretty cool, even if I was afraid that the trees around our deck would be engulfed as well, flames jumping across the branches as a squirrel might, until our neighborhood were ringed not by leaves but by embers...
I spent a year and a half working in Rockville alongside a group of awesome kids, many of whom will be starting college this fall. It was 2007...
part TWO of a series adapted from Bethesda Magazine's "67 Things We Love About Bethesda" list. Got something you love about the east side? Help me get to 68 things by leaving a comment or shooting an e-mail to justupthepike at gmail dot com.The Montgomery Cinema 'N' Drafthouse...
The boat slip for Rocky Gorge Reservoir at Ednor Road.All I wanted to do Sunday afternoon was go to a place that had water. At first, I thought about going to Annapolis, but then I remembered: we have a river right here...
A bus stop on New Hampshire Avenue in White Oak.- It's a big week for White Oak: on Tuesday, the County Council holds a public hearing on whether or not to partially fund the White Oak Transit Center, which will create a centralized bus terminal for many of the Metrobus and Ride-On routes serving...
Traffic on Route 29 near Stewart Lane.You've probably already read the Washington Post story about Montgomery County's worst intersections, but also check out the full study from the Planning Department, which will be reviewed this coming Monday...
Over the past three years, I've sought to examine East County's people, places and major issues in greater depth...
When the Gazette's Janel Davis called to interview me about Joy Nurmi's appointment as director of the East County Regional Services Center, I was busy driving around Center City Philadelphia and getting lost...
I was doing some online research last night on the Transportation Planning Board - who's putting the finishing touches on a regional Bus Rapid Transit plan to submit for federal stimulus funding - when I found this photo in one of their presentations...
These are pictures from the largely-vacant Burtonsville Shopping Center at Old Columbia Pike and Route 198 which, after several years of deliberation, is being razed...
Necklaces on display at last Sunday's Handmade Mart on Ellsworth Drive in Downtown Silver Spring. Photo by ohmeaghan.The following is a guest post about last Sunday's Handmade Mart on Ellsworth by friend of JUTP Hans Riemer...
JUTP was one of four MoCo blogs, including Rockville Central, Maryland Politics Watch and the aptly-named Gaithersblog featured in the Examiner's first "Blog Roundup" for the county. (Thanks to Brad at RC for the heads up.) It's a nice way to kick off the new month...
This is me on top of the "Rocky Steps" in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art the last time I was in the city, three years ago. I'm going back today to look at some architecture, look at some schools, and hopefully eat...
- Yesterday, the Planning Board approved the Project Plan for Studio Plaza, a mixed-use development in Fenton Village that I talked about yesterday...
When my family moved here, ten years ago, there was a tradition called "circle parties." It would start around six on a Saturday in spring or summer, when kids were finally let free from soccer leagues and music lessons and started trickling into the cul-de-sac...
Video of the new 17th Street Plaza in San Francisco. For more pictures, click here.Over the past month, two American cities gave streets back to the people, turning space once restricted to cars into plazas...
The proposed Studio Plaza development will include two new streets and a public green. For more images, check out this photoset.Today, the Planning Board is set to approve a development in Fenton Village that could pick up where the revitalized Ellsworth Drive corridor left off five years ago...
Over the past week, Stuart Rochester, chair of the Fairland Master Plan Advisory Committee, and I have been going back-and-forth about what I wrote about affordable housing on the east side last Monday. Here's where we left off after what I posted last Wednesday...
The new Third District police station would be on Milestone Drive in White Oak, near Route 29 and Stewart Lane...
With 30,701 visits through April, Just Up The Pike is the second most-visited "local blog" in the state of Maryland, according to analysis from Adam Pagnucco at Maryland Politics Watch...
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The last time I saw Elliot Rhodeside our planner in Silvr Spring wa at that Dylan concert at which time he admonished me fo being out alone in that neighborhood at that late hour with my girlfirends ( I think I was about 14 at the time). So if you don't like what Elliot is doing send him back to the "hood" and hve him take a look.
By the way we met the poet Alan Ginsburg that nite. A great memory.