The Comprehensive Plan sets the framework that shapes changes to the City. For as long as DC has had a Comprehensive Plan, the Committee of 100 has worked with the Office of Planning, DC Council and other organizations on the text of the Plan. The DC elements of the Comprehensive Plan articulate policies and priorities and are intended to guide the city’s growth and development. The last revisions to the DC elements of the Comprehensive Plan were approved by the Council in 2021. The DC Office of Planning will begin writing a new Comprehensive Plan in Fall 2024 and expects it to be completed and adopted by the DC Council by 2027. The Committee of 100 has been deeply engaged in the development of and amendments to the 2006 plan.
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C100 Letter DC Council Comp Plan Vote
Kirby Vining
C100 urges the Council to heed the Council Office on Racial Equity report on the draft Comprehensive Plan and vote NO on bill 24-0001 because the Plan “perpetuates the status quo.”
C100 Letter DC Council Draft Comprehensive Plan B 24-0001
Kirby Vining Laura Richards & Nancy MacWood
Letter to Chairman Mendelson and all DC Council Members urging them to address significant flaws in the Mayor’s Comprehensive Plan amendments that have made this 1,500 page document anathema to residents across the District.
C100 Comprehensive Plan Take Action
C100 Trustees
This document, lists some of the major failures of the Comp Plan amendments and changes Council should make when it votes on the Plan in mid-March. Please share this document with your personal contacts and the wider community via ANCs, civic associations, and other local groups to spread the word about what concerned citizens can do to weigh in with Councilmembers before March 16th via blogs, email — however you best reach your local community.
C100 Maps Of The Comprehensive Plan
Kirby Vining
The Comprehensive Plan contains two maps, the Future Land Use Map and the Generalized Policy Map, both of which have crucial roles in planning and Zoning. Hundreds of changes to both have been proposed and the attached is a guide to both what these maps are about.
C100 Press Release Unmasking The Comprehensive Plan
Nancy MacWood & Meg Maguire
The Committee of 100 on the Federal City (C100) has just released Unmasking the Rewrite: How to Make the Comprehensive Plan Work for DC, a 74 page report that describes how the Mayor’s Office of Planning (OP) has turned the legally required amendment to the District’s Comprehensive Plan (Comp Plan) into an attack on neighborhoods and an invitation to developers to pursue unconstrained development.
C100 Supplemental Testimony DC Council B23-0736 Comprehensive Plan Amendment
Kirby Vining & Nancy MacWood
Extensive written comments on many elements of the proposed amendments to the Comprehensive Plan, presented in follow-up to our November 12, 2020 testimony before the Council.
Unmasking The Rewrite - Assessment Of Selected Elements in the Comprehensive Plan
Introduction and Major Conclusions: This document includes the full text of C100’s comments on the amended Comp Plan as presented to the Council on December 3, 2020, but also includes a brief introduction pointing out the basis for our detailed analysis and recommended changes that should be of help to others in discussions with Council members and civic associations before the Council votes on the amended Comp Plan, probably in February, 2021.
C100 Supplemental Testimony Comprehensive Plan
Meg Maguire, Nancy MacWood, & Andrea Rosen
To achieve racial and economic equity in this city, and to gain the confidence and community buy-in necessary to do that, we recommend that Council: 1) Retain the current plan as a starting point, as flawed as it may be; 2) Immediately focus our city government capacities on implementing best practices in community visioning and planning to develop community-driven Small Area Plans; and 3) Identify specific sites and potentially convertible spaces and buildings in each ward that can produce affordable housing to strengthen our neighborhoods and enable low income families to achieve a better and more equitable future.
C100 Testimony DC Council B23-0736 Comprehensive Plan Amendment
Kirby Vining
Text of C100 oral remarks presented to the Council Committee of the Whole for its hearing on B23-0736 on November 12, 2020. See supplemental comments submitted later, immediately above.
C100 Letter Zoning Commission Chair Anthony Hood
Kirby Vining
C100 October 12, 2020 letter to the Zoning Commission, objecting to the Zoning Commission’s August 5, 2020 letter to the Council encouraging the Council to pass the amended Comprehensive Plan because delay in passing the Plan “is having a negative effect on ((Zoning Commission)) progress.”