D.C.council chairman to revise comp plan bill this fall — with an eye on moreaffordable housing
Sep 12, 2018, 12:09pm EDT
Katie Arcieri, Staff Reporter Washington Business Journal
D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson plans to revise a bill that amends a key chapter in the city's comprehensive plan with language to establish affordable housing as a priority and provide clarity on how the Zoning Commission can reconcile conflicting policies.
Mendelson said the Committee of the Whole, which he
chairs, will mark up revisions to the Comprehensive Plan Framework Amendment
Act of 2018 introduced at the request of Mayor Muriel Bowser and then present it to the full
council for a vote.
"What the mayor proposed was to make it clear
that specifics in the plan could be ignored and to give the Zoning Commission
absolute discretion and to make it very difficult for property owners to appeal
asserting their property rights — those are not solutions," he told me in
a brief phone conversation Tuesday.
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Mendelson believes more set-in-stone rules would "restore certainty" to an approval process that has created legal obstacles for dozens of developers whose projects are held up in the Court of Appeals. The Barry Farm and McMillan planned-unit developments (PUD) are key examples of projects that have stalled due to legal challenges.
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