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Medium/High Density Residential and Mixed Use

What Did It Cover?

The primary focus of the Medium-High Density Working Group was the District’s zoning regulations that govern areas of the District designated as Medium or High Density Residential, or Mixed Use of the same densities, on the Comprehensive Plan’s Future Land Use Map. Excluded from this analysis will be 1) those sections of the Central Employment Area that have been dealt with in the Downtown Working Group, and 2) areas that are designated as Commercial or Mixed Use and are along the District’s commercial corridors – these were mainly dealt with through the Commercial Corridors Working Group. OP coordinated the efforts of these two Working Groups to handle overlapping issues.

Working Group

Meetings for this subject area were conducted on the following dates:

Tuesday, March 17   Mixed-Use and Regulating Impacts
Tuesday, March 31 Introduction
Tuesday, April 14 Housing Choice
Thursday, April 29 Building Form, Scale and Transitions
Tuesday, June 22* Recommendations & Wrap-up
           
The fourth working group meeting covered the discussion of building bulk, form, and transitions in combination with the discussion of the same topic in the Commercial Areas working group meeting on April 29. Follow up-information from this meeting, including a PowerPoint presentation, background summaries on the topic areas, interactive display boards, and meeting summary notes are now provided on the DC Zoning Update web-site. This information can be obtained through the following web-link, under the Meeting 3 Documents section: DC Zoning Update Commercial Areas Web Page.

Moving Forward

Recommendations for Residential Apartment zones (currently R-5 zones) are in the documents section below.


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Meeting Documents (10)
Date Title/Description
22-Nov-2010 Recommendations to the Zoning Commission for Med/High Density Residential Zones - This report includes OP's recommendations to the Zoning Commission for changes to residential apartment (currently R-5) zones. A hearing on these recommendations is scheduled for December 9, 2010.
02-Nov-2010 Task Force Presentation - Presentation of the recommendations for this working group to the Task Force on October 27, 2010.
01-Jul-2009 Mtg. 5 June 22 2009 Notes Summary - A summary of notes from the final Medium-High Density Working Group meeting
01-Jul-2009 Mtg. 5 June 22 2009 PowerPoint - Presentation given at the June 22, 2009 Working Group meeting. This presentation summarizes OP's preliminary recommendations for Medium-High Density Residential and Mixed-Use areas.
22-Apr-2009 Mtg. 3 April 14 2009 Powerpoint - Presentation given at the April 14, 2009 Working Group meeting. This meeting focused on regulation of diversity of housing choices.
22-Apr-2009 Mtg. 3 April 14 2009 Notes Summary - A summary of notes from the April 14, 2009 Working Group meeting.
13-Apr-2009 Mtg. 2 March 31 2009 Powerpoint - Presentation given at the March 31, 2009 Working Group meeting. Focused on regulation of different land uses.
13-Apr-2009 Mtg. 2 March 31 2009 Notes Summary - A summary of notes from the March 31, 2009 Working Group meeting.
19-Mar-2009 Mtg. 1 March 17 2009 Introductory Powerpoint - Introductory background presentation given at the March 17, 2009 Working Group meeting.
19-Mar-2009 Mtg. 1 March 17 2009 Notes Summary - A summary of notes from the March 17, 2009 Working Group meeting.
Background Documents (2)
Date Title/Description
19-Mar-2009 Comprehensive Plan Medium-High Density Policies - References to medium to high density areas in the 2006 Comprehensive Plan.
19-Mar-2009 Identified Problems & Gaps for Discussion - Problems and Gaps to be studied in the Working Group as initially identified through the Comp. Plan and OP.