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Mayor Bowser recognizes gun violence as a public health crisis, launches prevention program D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser signed a Mayor’s Order recognizing gun violence as a public health crisis and announced the creation of an emergency gun violence prevention center at a situational update on Feb. 17. The order comes as a response to a spike in gun violence in D.C. last year and establishes the Gun Violence Prevention Emergency Operations Center (EOC), which is part of a new gun violence prevention program known as Building Blocks DC. According to the situational update presentation, while violent crimes from 2016 to 2020 have generally gone down, gun crime trends have gone up. 922 people were shot in D.C. last year, and 198 people were killed. Acts of gun violence and homicides disproportionately impacted the Black community. In 2020, 95 percent of homicide victims were Black, and 160 of the 198 homicide victims were Black men. ....
MU-27 (Naval Observatory). Second, the amendments seek to increase the height that dictates the set-aside amount from 50 feet to 85 feet. Currently, a building greater than 50 feet in height is subject to the lower IZ set-aside requirements (8% of the residential floor area or 50% of the bonus density utilized) to account for the increased construction costs of concrete and steel. Based on building code changes and technological improvements that allow for taller stick-built construction, OP aims to raise the threshold to 85 feet. This change would make buildings under 85 feet in height subject to the higher IZ set-aside requirements (10% of the residential floor area or 75% of the bonus density utilized). ....