The District of Columbia has been working for more than a year to update the D.C. Comprehensive Plan Framework Element. A new draft was recently released to the public, with a vote coming potentially very soon.
Last week, the office of the chair of the Council of the District of Columbia, Phil Mendelson, released a draft of the D.C. Comprehensive Plan Framework Element bill, reports Alex Baca. The draft updates the Framework Element after several years of planning work.
"Housing advocates have been paying close attention to whether the updates will modernize how development works in the District," according to Baca, who also declares that the changes, in their current form, are worth the wait.
Baca checks in with the amendments proposed by Mendelson over the summer (spoiler: a lot of the substance of those amendments didn't survive recent revisions) and other considerations important to the Greater Greater Washington readership (which, we assume has more than a little overlap with the Planetizen readership).
It's possible that the Framework bill could be approved as soon as October 8, according to Baca.
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