UrbanTurf: Does DC’s Zoning Code Lack Protections for Solar Panels?
A recent building permit appeal in DC may have wider implications for whether solar arrays on residential rooftops are protected.
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Norton Introduces D.C. Zoning Commission Home Rule Act, Would Remove Federal Officials from…
March 5, 2019
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Norton Introduces D.C. Zoning Commission Home Rule Act, Would Remove Federal Officials from Commission
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced the District of…
Greater Greater Washington: Long-term visions, immediate needs: What we learned at the GGWash forum…
As the District grows and changes, its leaders need to balance the needs of current residents with the needs of residents in the future. The Office of Planning is “the only agency in the DC government really charged with thinking about the…
Mayor’s pick for chief planner tells critics of city’s development policies he hopes to earn their…
The District’s new top planning official on Saturday met some of the biggest critics of the Bowser administration’s land-use policies, promising to listen to activists’ concerns about the pace of development.
Earlier this month, Mayor…
City Paper: Bowser Upzone Watch: Could it be… Bowser, dipping her toes in the pool of…
In a city of 700,000 that continues to grow, there's nowhere to go, some say, but up—as in, physically higher, by building increasingly dense and tall apartment complexes that would increase the District's housing supply. That would also,…
Bisnow: D.C. Council Fails To Take Up Comprehensive Plan Amendments, Pushes Issue To 2019
The hundreds of people who testified to the D.C. Council in March on the District's long-term development plan were not enough to sway the council to prioritize the issue and move forward with it this year.
Curbed: D.C. to pursue changes to long-term development plan in 2019
Urban planning nerds who are anxious to see what local lawmakers are going to do to the District’s Comprehensive Plan for development and growth will have to wait a little longer.
Washington Post: Metro’s brutalist downtown building is up for sale. What should replace it?
The planned sale of Metro’s hulking downtown headquarters could be a game-changer for Penn Quarter. As the agency’s rezoning request for the property heads to a public hearing in two weeks, residents and officials have started imagining…
Bisnow: D.C. Tells Armed Forces Retirement Home It Must Go Through Zoning Process To Redevelop
Months after the federal government said it intended to bypass D.C.'s local zoning process for a large-scale redevelopment of the Armed Forces Retirement Home — thereby avoiding a potentially lengthy appeal to its plans — D.C.'s top…
UrbanTurf: Where in DC is Missing Middle Housing Not Missing?
Last year, UrbanTurf reported on the concept of the "Missing Middle", a class of housing types which bridge the gap between single-family houses and mid-rise multi-family buildings. As explained at an Urban Land Institute panel, "Missing…
Nick Sementelli in Greater Greater Washington: Historic districts are a poor substitute for good…
DC is growing, and as this spring’s passionate debate about the DC Comprehensive Plan revealed, managing this growth is one of the most important and contentious city planning discussions of our time. However, decisions about historic…
Alma Gates: DC needs a planning commission
By Alma Gates
Washington, DC, shares its land area with the federal government — or is it the other way around? It doesn’t matter: There’s a finite amount of land available for development within the 10 miles square known as the nation’s…