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Thanks for the taking the time to read the DC Office of Planning's (OP) second monthly newsletter! I hope you find this informative and welcome any feedback you may have as we determine what information is most useful. Please feel free to share with others, who can sign up here. In addition, you can follow our work on Twitter under @OPinDC.
With summer officially upon us, many workplaces around DC slow down. However, with what appears to be imminent action at the DC Council on the Framework Element on July 9, at OP, we will be working hard all summer to move the Comprehensive Plan forward. In addition, we will be making progress on the Mayor's ambitious housing goals. In the coming months, we will be gearing up for a busy fall and winter when we plan to share the remainder of the Comprehensive Plan elements for public review and to provide the Mayor with housing targets for planning areas across the District. So stay tuned, as future newsletters promise to be full of milestones and planning news.
Have a great summer,
Andrew Trueblood
Director, DC Office of Planning
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 While waiting for the DC Council to review and vote on the Framework Element of the Comprehensive (Comp) Plan, in May, we launched a DC Values engagement effort to ensure that the remaining Comp Plan elements reflect the most important values and concerns of DC residents.
Do these values align with yours?
Accessibility, Diversity, Equity, Livability, Opportunity, Resiliency, Safety, Prosperity
Tell us today! The DC2Me Values Survey is closing June 30th.
For more information on the values and to take the survey, please visit www.dc2me.com.
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 At the 11th Annual DC Housing Expo, held on June 15th, the Office of Planning (OP) and Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) introduced the Housing Framework for Equity and Growth. This in-depth housing systems analysis, to ensure all residents can access and afford housing across all areas of the city, is our response to Mayor Bowser’s bold call to action. In May, the Mayor signed a Mayor’s Order on housing directing District agencies to identify new policies, tools, and initiatives to begin fulfilling her ambitious goal of creating 36,000 new housing units, 12,000 of them affordable, by 2025.
We engaged with hundreds of residents at the DC Housing Expo through interactive activities on where in the city they would like to live and why. OP and DHCD Directors, Andrew Trueblood and Polly Donaldson, participated in a panel where they discussed why we need 36,000 new housing units and how we intend to get there, as well as the current distribution of affordable housing and ways to expand it across the District.
Bold action to address housing affordability requires the entire city’s input and energy; OP and DHCD will conduct a series of activities over the summer to learn about residents’ housing needs and gather feedback on the current distribution of affordable housing in the city.
To learn more and share your thoughts, please visit housingdc.dc.gov .
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Preserving for Progress
Preserving for Progress, the 2020 DC Historic Preservation Plan, outlines a vision and goals to guide ongoing preservation efforts in the District.
As the principles of smart growth, sustainability, equitable development, and resilience increasingly influence public planning goals, we can sustain and improve established preservation tools that work well, while also seeking common cause with new strategies that advance complementary goals. This plan aims to follow that path in order to ensure historic heritage remains a vital and valued part of our daily lives.
Preserving for Progress sets out an ambitious but manageable agenda and suggests the actions the Historic Preservation Office (HPO), city agencies, federal partners, cultural organizations, preservation non-profits, and property owners can take to make progress toward a long-range vision. It includes a wide range of activities responding to many facets of preservation, while also setting priorities that will help focus efforts on the most pressing of our needs.
The HPO, within the DC Office of Planning, is responsible for administering the city’s preservation program through its team of preservation and design specialists, architects, planners, building inspectors and an archaeologist. As the State Historic Preservation Office for the District of Columbia, HPO is responsible for administering national historic preservation programs within the District and carries out federal duties including historic preservation planning, survey and identification of historic properties, public education, preservation review of government projects, and promotion of rehabilitation tax credits.
View Preserving for Progress, the 2020 DC Historic Preservation Plan here.
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2018 Food System Assessment
The DC Food Policy Council is a coalition of food leaders and government staff appointed by the Mayor to promote a more equitable, healthy, and sustainable food system in the District.
The annual Food System Assessment, released by the DC Food Policy Council, reports on key indicators within the District’s food system and highlights food policies and programs. The report focuses on different components needed to build an equitable, healthy, and sustainable food system in the city.
View the full 2018 Food System Assessment here.
View the one pager on the 2018 Food System Assessment here.
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Poplar Point Plan
Poplar Point Plan will engage the community to incorporate culture, history, environmental restoration and resilience into an equitable development blueprint that respects the interests of longtime residents while balancing the needs of a growing city.
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Reimagining Reeves Study
Reimagining Reeves Study will focus on how potential redevelopment can respond equitably to residential, commercial, civic and social needs of the surrounding neighborhood near the Frank D. Reeves Municipal Center on U St. NW.
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