#DCCompPlan -- Make it Clearer & Stronger

Earlier in 2020, during the beginnings of the global pandemic, DC's Mayor, Muriel Bowser, and her Office of Planning sent to the DC City Council 1500 pages of amendments to DC's central planning document, The DC Comprehensive Plan.

Given this massive rewrite of DC's central planning document (a gift to developers), The DC Grassroots Planning Coalition wants to ensure true equity and planning are incorproated into the document. YOU CAN HELP BY PUSHING THE COUNCIL TO DO THE SAME -- SUBMIT YOUR SUPPORT AND NOTE USING OUR ONLINE EMAIL TOOL BELOW. The D.C. Comprehensive Plan and its policies and proposed changes affect all DC communities and the future of our city.

Your note does matter, even as much as a phone call to the John A. Wilson Building (1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW) -- (202) 724-8000. Please contact your Councilmembers. Use our easy email tool below to send your message and the Council phone number will appear in your mailbox!

Use the form below to send a letter now!

Send your letter by making sure recipients are selected (checked) as shown below.
To the Council Chair & At Large Councilmembers
Councilmember Phil Mendelson, Committee of the Whole staff, and all At-Large Councilmembers (Elissa Silverman, Robert White, Christina Henderson, and Anita Bonds)

Now's your chance to edit our draft letter so you can send your message to City officials:
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SUBJECT LINE:

MAIL MESSAGE [edit as necessary]:
To my DC City Councilmembers, The Comprehensive Plan can be a tool for the people, or a tool to displace the people by a runaway growth-machine. I am asking that you: 1. Reject the Mayor's Comprehensive Plan Map changes: The proposed changes to the Future Land Use Map (FLUM) not only increase height and density ('UpFLUM'); they largely eliminate community engagement and the potential for benefit agreements for 200 million square feet of land/air rights across the city, thus exacerbating displacement of Black residents, and low-income populations in one of the fastest gentrifying cities in the US. And, these changes challenge the law in that they are not accompanied with population-growth impact studies. 2. Ensure Racial Equity Impact review before passing the Plan changes into law: To bring justice into this amendment process, the recent Racial Equity law ('REACH Act') must be applied to the Comp Plan prior to passing it into law, ensuring that development under the Comp Plan be community-driven, accessible in languages other than English, be supported by accurate current data, and specifically tie housing development with meaningful economic outcomes for Black DC residents in the form of long term jobs and job training. The amendment process is devoid of a showing of need or efficacy studies, to the harm of DC's Black and low income communities. 3. Stop the Mayor's attempt to weaken the Comp Plan making its policies unenforceable: Stronger language with clear directives (i.e., 'should' to 'shall') must be restored in all Plan policies for predictable, enforceable outcomes for all neighborhoods and all neighbors across DC. Incorporating the Grassroots Planning Coalition's 'Housing Justice Priorities' and the Committee of 100's 'Unmasking the Comprehensive Plan' report will strengthen the Plan to benefit all DC residents. We need your help to stop displacement and to bring more communities into the planning process. Will you ensure this happens? Regards,
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Earlier in 2020, during the beginnings of the global pandemic, DC's Mayor, Muriel Bowser, and her Office of Planning sent to the DC City Council 1500 pages of amendments to DC's central planning document, The DC Comprehensive Plan.

Your note does matter, even as much as a phone call to the John A. Wilson Building (1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW) -- (202) 724-8000. Please contact your Councilmembers. Use our easy email tool below to send your message and the Council phone number will appear in your mailbox!

Now's your chance to edit our draft letter so you can send your message to City officials: (edit as necessary)

Now's your chance to edit our draft letter so you can send your message to City officials:
(edit as necessary)