On March 29, we held our Ward One City Council Candidate Forum so that the public can understand the perspectives of the Ward One candidates on the Comprehensive Plan and development in DC. Busboys and Poets was packed. Lots of voters. Lots of interested guests. All 5 candidates were there. Here’s our livestream of the event. See the Candidate Responses below: KENT BOESE BRIANNE NADEAU […]
ON MARCH 20, 2018, Our Coalition packed the house. We told our DC CITY COUNCIL to STOP COMPREHENSIVE SCAM! Here’s some press from the marathon 14-hour hearing on our Comp Plan: Dry D.C. planning document fuels heated debate over future of expensive city, Washington Post, By Fenit Nirappil, March 20, 2018 Residents testify for, against Mayor Muriel Bowser’s comprehensive plan, By Julia Airey, The Washington […]
We had heard that the Office of Planning (“OP”) wouldn’t submit amendments to the Comprehensive Plan until the Fall 2018, given they are processing 3000 various amendments submitted to them last year. However, to our surprise, Eric Shaw (who recently came from Utah), now Director of OP, sent to the City Council on January 9, 2018, sixty pages of amendments to a key leading Chapter […]
PRESS ALERT — January 30, 2018 About 100 Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners filled a meeting at the Wilson Building Monday evening (1-29-18) called by Council Chair Phil Mendelson to hear Office of Planning Director Eric Shaw explain the changes to the DC Comprehensive Plan that OP has submitted to the Council, but the commissioners would have none it. From across the District, but particularly from Wards […]
TAKE BACK THE COMP PLAN – FROM DEVELOPERS! Join the citywide movement of residents who are fighting back against developer-driven changes to DC’s Comprehensive Plan that will gentrify your community. Saturday, February 10, 2018 2:00-4:30 PM Christ United Mehtodist Church 900 4th St, SW (near SW/Waterfront Metro) Get informed & prepared for upcoming hearings and actions to defeat amendments to the Comprehensive Plan which are […]
Page 37 of Office of Planning’s Redline Framework Amendments: DCMR 10A-216 FROM VISION TO REALITY: GUIDING PRINCIPLES This section establishes 36 underlying principles for the future that reflect this context. Most of these principles are based on “A Vision for Growing an Inclusive City,” the policy framework for the Comprehensive Plan Revision endorsed by the Council of the District of Columbia in 2004. 216.2 The […]