It’s ALIVE! The Comprehensive Plan amendment process comes back: Almost three years on, the District of Columbia’s Office of Planning (“OP”) wants District residents to identify key values to direct the Comprehensive Plan amendment process.
As many of our readers know, the Comprehensive Plan is a 20-year framework that guides future growth and development. As part of the ongoing amendment process, OP wants to know: “What are the ‘values’ of District residents?” “How should those ‘values’ direct the District’s long-term planning?”
Spearheaded by its new director, Andrew Trueblood, OP launched an online survey called “DC2ME” to find out. The survey will be “live” only until June 30, 2019, so now is the time to act.
The online survey asks participants to rank a list of “values”, which includes: “accessibility”; “diversity”; “equity”; “livability”; “opportunity”; “prosperity”; “resilience”; and “safety”. OP will use the feedback from the survey to “guide decision making” for the Comprehensive Plan amendment process.
The survey is meant to jump start the process to update the Comprehensive Plan, which stalled after the big District Council hearing in March 2018. Next, OP plans to conduct multiple “outreach activities” this summer to “share” the feedback from the DC2ME survey. We will keep an eye on the schedule for those meetings.
Unfortunately, it appears that this survey and the new round of meetings will only extend – not end – the Comprehensive Plan amendment process. Do people remember the 2017 “Open Call” to solicit amendments to the Comprehensive Plan’s map and text? Read more ›
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