On May 18, the DC City Council voted to amend the DC Comprehensive Plan. We had some wins but we also had key losses that will perpetuate the status quo displacement projects and racial inequities as highlighted in the Council Office on Racial Equity report. Take a look at this video to hear about our key loss, the Future Land Use Map (FLUM)! Now what: […]
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On May 18, the DC City Council voted to amend the DC Comprehensive Plan. We had some wins with some very powerful language included in the Council’s amendments with your help and the help of City Council members and staff. Take a look at this video to hear about our victories! Click here for our PDF showing the language in the Plan that we won! […]
APRIL 2021: CITY COUNCIL CHAIR RELEASES MARK UP OF MAYOR’S PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE DC COMP PLAN On Monday, April 19, 2021, there was a press briefing held by the DC Grassroots Planning Coalition following up City Council Chairman, Phil Mendelson’s release of the Committee of the Whole markup of the Mayor’s proposed changes to the DC Comprehensive Plan. MARCH 2021: CITY COUNCIL PERFORMANCE OVERSIGHT […]
Read the Committee of 100’s, “Detailed analysis of the explanatory text, policies and actions in the Mayor’s Comp Plan Rewrite reveal serious flaws that would cripple citizens from participating meaningfully in land use decisions and perpetuate gentrification throughout the city.” The C100, an organization that has been following planning in DC for decades explain thoroughly that Mayor’s proposed changes to the DC Comprehensive Plan: “… […]
Read the statutes and municipal regulations that govern DC's Comprehensive Plan and amendments thereto.
Since 2017, the DC Grassroots Planning Coalition (DCGPC) has engaged DC residents from all Wards in advocacy that calls on the DC Office of Planning (OP) and DC Council to adopt amendments to the city’s Comprehensive Plan that promote resident-led, equitable development, further racial equity, address economic disparity, and prevent displacement. For example, DCGPC helped to secure amendments to the Framework Element (first chapter) of the Comprehensive Plan on racial equity and “land value recapture” – a […]
>> PRESS ALERT << Contact: Maurice Cook, dc@grassrootsplanning.us, 202-341-1732 Mendelson releases DC Comprehensive Plan Amendments; Recent Court Decisions Show Why Plan’s Language Needs to Be Clearer & Stronger In the first published news from the Council about the DC Comprehensive Plan since March 2018, Chairman, Phil Mendelson released 50+ pages of changes to the DC Comprehensive Plan’s leading chapter, the Framework Element >> http://chairmanmendelson.com/2019/07/02/staff-draft-of-comp-plan-framework/ “Chairman […]
Change Is Inevitable, Justice Is Not The strength of development protections today will define the city forever In early 2019, Mayor Bowser proposed a plan for the development of 36,000 new units, claiming the plan would bring prosperity and affordable housing to the city. This plan and it’s promises are reminiscent of Mayor Williams’s 1999 plan for 100,000 new residents, which was wildly successful despite […]