![]() ![]() GGWash does not favor overlays, special zones, or other exceptional treatments for specific locations, and we are disappointed to see OP take this approach here. Do you think these standards achieve this objective? Please describe here”: In response to, “The sections on Zoning Strategy and Wisconsin Avenue Streetscape (pages 46-57) outline the regulatory standards for development and streetscape to achieve the framework’s recommendations. And, we are excited to see identify small spaces and plazas as appropriate for play structures, which should be a common practice District-wide. We request OP ensures that: : “Housing…should be the principal use along the corridor” is not struck, and “Parking associated with redevelopment should…” includes “should be minimized, and” between “redevelopment” and “should” page 19: “Encourage vibrant retail by improving the mobility…” reads “encourage vibrant retail by prioritizing the mobility…” page 21: Housing is given sole priority over “residential amenity space, green roofs, and solar photovoltaic panels” page 26, 34, and 42: “Welcome a significant amount of new housing for… the growing neighborhood” is not struck.Īdditionally, we request that any reference throughout the plan to “special paving” specify that it will meet the standards of DDOT’s DEM, and will not be purpose-built for a given location. GGWash is generally supportive of OP’s draft. Do you think the guiding principles and recommendations achieve this objective? Please describe here”: There are detailed recommendations on Friendship Heights, Tenleytown, and the area South of Tenley Circle. In response to, “The Corridor Plan (pages 16-45) outlines guiding principles and recommendations to support opportunities for more diverse housing and commercial activities as well as an inclusive public life for people of all ages and abilities. Overall, the draft allows for significantly upzoning sites along Wisconsin Avenue, so if that’s attractive to you, tell OP to ensure that the final framework maintains, and perhaps enhances, those proposed plans. You’ll need to keep it short!īelow are the comments I sent in on behalf of GGWash, which are cranky and specific and technical, because there’s, blessedly, a character limit, so I kept our feedback narrow. ![]() Write a comment, in your own words, here. You don’t have to live in Ward 3 to provide feedback but, as always, if you do: It’s better. You will leave a better comment if you read the draft (this is true of anytime you have an opportunity to comment, on anything), and you will provide more meaningful input if you submit an actual comment that answers OP’s questions (a click-to-send action alert is, once again, a meh thing to do). OP has a nice little form set up with questions its staff would like you to answer. ![]() Wednesday, November 15, 2023, is the deadline to submit comments on the Office of Planning (OP)’s draft of its Wisconsin Avenue development framework. If you have any questions, email about Maryland and Virginia Do Somethings, and about Washington, DC, Do Somethings-or, about whatever you want to talk about. This week: Zoning for Housing in Alexandria, the Baltimore Red Line’s resurrection, how to say that more density on Wisconsin Avenue is good, and our Sunday afternoon happy hour. Weekly, Regional Policy Director Dan Reed and DC Policy Director Alex Baca will be sharing with you an action you can take in the immediate future that has the potential, sometimes great and sometimes small, to increase the number of homes in our region, decrease the trips people take by car, make all of it safer, and not screw people over in the process. Photo by Dan Malouff and altered by Dan Reed. ![]()
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