Parks, school buildings, bridges and streetcars. Reading Mayor Vincent Gray’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2014, capital investments — $1.38 billion of them in just a year — could permanently alter the face of a growing, and in many ways flourishing, D.C.

The D.C. Council’s public reaction to Gray’s third budget proposal was, excepting a contentious back-and-forth with Councilman David Catania, largely positive. The mayor’s promise that he wasn’t proposing any new taxes or fees probably helped.

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