Comprehensive Plan Amendment Act News Today

It has been four years since many of Eckington’s residents and its Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners came together to craft a vision for how we want growth to happen in our neighborhood in the next 10 years. But despite countless hours spent over these four years to define and advocate for an affordable future for Eckington through amendments we wrote to the 2006 Comprehensive Plan, DC Council Chairman Phil Mendelson is pushing to override our neighborhood’s wishes in one stroke of his pe...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The District of Columbias urban planning and land use goals will be an early order of business for the Council of the District of Columbia (D.C. Council) in the new year. On Jan. 4, 2021, Chairman Phil Mendelson introduced the Comprehensive Plan Amendment Act of 2020 (B24-01) – the first bill of Council Period 24. The introduction of this bill serves to revive its predecessor, B23-0736, which had not been agendized for a Council leg...