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Still Crickets.

Could it be that the mayor and OP are rather obviously trying to sell bullshit?[/quote]

https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2020/04/23/bowsers-final-round-of-proposed-comp-plan-changes.html

Bowser announced Thursday that planning officials have finalized their revisions after releasing a draft in October.

D.C. staffers have spent more than three years working up amendments to the plan, a key focus for developers backing large projects in the city, but all of that work came long before the coronavirus outbreak completely upended the District’s economy. Bowser said these latest revisions seek to recognize the pandemic’s impact on the city, and incorporate feedback planners have collected about the document over the last few months.

Many of those edits focused on including public health emergencies and hospital capacity as issues the District should focus on, Trueblood said, considering that the current pandemic has exposed gaps in the city’s systems. And there was also need to moderate some of the plan’s predictions about the city’s economic growth, though Trueblood said his staff already built the plan without too many wild-eyed assumptions.

But, in general, the plan amendments are largely similar to the ones Bowser released last fall.

Those include descriptive policies, like a new emphasis on the value of adding new housing in all areas of the city, and a move away from phrases like “protect neighborhood character,” which officials believe is coded language designed to wall off wealthy areas from new construction.

"If anything, Trueblood said the proposal he’s sending to the council includes more density allowed than his team’s first draft"

The council will now have the chance to work up its own changes to Bowser’s amendments, a process led primarily by Chairman Phil Mendelson. Trueblood is still hopeful that lawmakers can pass the amendments before the end of the year, but now that the council has the coronavirus emergency consuming most of its attention — to say nothing of a delayed, extra-complex budget debate looming — that deadline will be harder than ever to meet.[/quote]

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