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Comprehensive Plan Update Stokes Controversy in D.C.
Complex political dynamics are mustering for a showdown over D.C. s comprehensive plan. March 3, 2021, 7am PST | James Brasuell |
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Paul Schwartzman reports on the growing coalition fighting for racial equity as Washington, D.C. prepares to consider a comprehensive plan update.
Schwartzman describes the plan as Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s proposed changes to zoning policy reserving the words comprehensive plan for later in the article. The revisions would allow taller apartment buildings on key corridors, potentially catalyzing the construction of tens of thousands of housing units, a portion of them subsidized, explains Schwartzman. Moreover, Under the revised policy, developers would have to devote up to 20 percent of square footage to below-market units in some cases, more than double the existing requirement.
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