Clean This Place, Don’t Displace A case study on the urgent need for binding impact assessments Buzzard Point, a predominantly African American neighborhood that had long suffered the effects of industrial toxicity, has become a shining example of how publicly-oriented development can right past wrongs. Once DC’s equivalent of Flint, Michigan, Buzzard Point residents now breathe easily thanks to a comprehensive effort to clean up […]
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 […]