REMINDER!
We need to attend this meeting to find out the zoning laws for our community.
It would be a shame to have a store on the corner of your block or your neighbor change his garage to an apartment.
Good evening,
Welcome back from the long HOT summer!
I have included the newspaper article "Get to know DC's new zoning with this map". A map is not included in the article however, I have asked Zoning to send a map of our area, include the status and definition of the codes.
Please come with your questions and concerns.
North Woodridge and PSA 503 Meeting
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Hospital for Sick Children
1731 Bunker Hill Road NE
6:30PM
Invited Guest
Sara Bardin, Director
Office of Zoning
We extend this invitation to ANC 5B01 Commissioner Gayle Hall- Carley, the office of CM McDuffie and other City Council Members as well as the Mayor.
Mark your calendar and plan to join us -we will meet the second Wednesday of the months of
January – May and September – December.
Membership dues are $10 a calendar year.
If you have questions please contact me.
Shirley Rivens Smith, President
North Woodridge Citizens
2000 Upshur St., NE
Washington, DC 20018
202-635-3138
Prior to filing the complete draft revision with the Zoning Commission, the Office of Planning undertook extensive outreach. The outreach included OP hosted community meetings, one in every ward to explain the proposals, notices to all ANCs, posting of the proposals on the OP and Office of Zoning[i] websites; posting of notices within DC recreation centers; posting on neighborhood planning listserves, and mailings to 776 places of worship for posting on their community bulletin boards that noted the times and locations of all upcoming community meetings, website locations for electronic copies of the draft text and library locations of paper copies. OP also provided paper copies of the full draft text to all twenty-two DC Public Libraries. At the Ward 8 community meeting the OP presentation was videotaped and was available for viewing through the District of Columbia's DCTV public access channel.
During this same period of time the Office of Zoning prepared a full color tri-fold brochure entitled "What is the ZRR?" that described the purpose and status of the Zoning Regulation revision process and also identified the dates, times, and locations of the OP hosted community meetings described above. The brochure was mailed to the ANCs, citizens and civic associations, government agencies and professional associations and delivered to public libraries and community centers. In addition, the brochure was translated into Spanish and disseminated to language access partners.
For this case, the Commission not just met, but exceeded this minimum standard. As reflected in the Notice of Public Hearing published in the D.C. Register on September 20, 2013, at 60 DCR 13034, the Commission agreed to hold a series of hearings, with each hearing focused on a group of subtitles.
The dates and subject matter of each hearing were as follows:
DATE | SUBTITLE |
Monday, November 4, 2013 | A: Authority and Applicability W: Mapping X: General Procedures (includes planned unit developments (PUDs) and Campus Plan procedures) Y: Board of Zoning Adjustment Rules of Practice and Procedure Z: Zoning Commission Rules of Practice and Procedure |
Tuesday, November 5, 2013 | B: Definitions, includes uses |
Wednesday, November 6, 2013 | D: Residential House (R) Zones (includes Accessory Apartments in all R zones and corner stores for the current R-3 zones) |
Thursday, November 7, 2013 | E: Residential Flat (RF) Zones (includes corner stores for the current R-4 zones) F: Apartment (A) Zones |
Tuesday, November 12, 2013 | C: General Procedures (includes parking, bike parking, loading) |
Wednesday, November 13, 2013 | G: Mixed Use (M) Zones H: Neighborhood Mixed Use (N) Zones (includes new zones created from Neighborhood Commercial Overlays) |
Thursday, November 14, 2013 | I: Downtown Zones J: Production, Distribution and Repair (P) Zones K: Special Purpose Zones |
In addition to the Notice of Public Hearing the Office of Zoning mailed a full color tri-fold brochure outlining the above information, and additional information on how one could participate in the process. The mailer was sent to ANCs, citizens and civic associations, government agencies and professional associations; and was left at public libraries and community centers.
On November 4-7, 12-14, 19, and 20, 2013, the Commission held the public hearings it had advertised. The Commission heard presentations from OP, testimony from the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) and the Board of Zoning Adjustment (Board), and testimony from over 200 individuals, organizations, or associations.
In recognition of the unique status and vantage point held by Advisory Neighborhood Commissions (ANCs), the Commission decided to hold a further hearing limited to testimony from ANCs and Single Member District Commissioners (SMDs). A notice of the further public hearing was published in the D.C. Register on December 6, 2013, at 60 DCR 16567. At the request of the Councilmember Chairman, Phil Mendelson, the hearing was held in a hearing room at the John A. Wilson Building at 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington DC.
At its regularly scheduled public meeting on December 9, 2013, the Commission decided to keep the record open until March 3, 2014, at 3:00 p.m. In recognition of the fact that some District residents might not be able to attend hearings at the Office of Zoning, the Commission decided to hold Ward-specific hearings at convenient neighborhood locations. A Second Notice of Further Public Hearing was therefore published in the D.C. Register on December 20, 2013, at 60 DCR 17004, and advertised the following hearing times and locations:
Date/Time | Wards | Location |
Saturday, February 8, 2014, 9:00 a.m. | 5 & 6 | Dunbar High School Auditorium 101 N Street, N.W. |
Tuesday, February 11, 2014, 6:00 p.m. | 3 & 4 | Wilson High School Auditorium 3950 Chesapeake Street, N.W. |
Wednesday, February 12, 2014, 6:00 p.m. | 7 & 8 | Department of Employment Services 4058 Minnesota Avenue, N.E. |
Thursday, February 13, 2014, 6:00 p.m. * | 1 & 2 | D.C. Housing Finance Authority 815 Florida Avenue, N.W. |
* The February 13th hearing was rescheduled to and held on February 26th.
At its regularly scheduled public meeting on February 10, 2014, the Commission announced that the Office of Planning would be holding open houses in at least two (2) wards east of the river and at least two (2) wards west of the river in the near future. In view of these additional informational opportunities, the Commission voted to keep the record open until April 17, 2014.
All told, OP would host sixteen (16) such open houses. Eight (8) of these consisted of a community meeting; one (1) community meeting with a full presentation by OP followed by a question and answer session was held in each of the District's eight (8) wards. In addition, OP hosted eight (8) open houses at which OP staff was available for walk-in questions. Five (5) such open houses were held at OP's offices while the other three (3) were held in the Petworth Library, the Deanwood Recreation Center, and the Thurgood Marshall Academy. This is in addition to OP's attendance at eighty-one (81) community meetings and forty-three (43) ANC meetings to discuss the proposed changes. In March 2014, the Office of Planning also mailed to each ANC a summary of the proposals as they would apply to each ANC specifically (Exhibits A‑621 through A-664).
At the Commission's meeting held February 24, 2014, the Chairman indicated that the Commission would hold two further hearings; one in Ward 8 at Thurgood Marshall Academy, 2427 Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue, S.E on April 21, 2014 at 6:00 p.m. during which the Commission would first hear from residents who reside in Wards 7 and 8 and then from any person who resides in the other wards of the City and who have not previously testified; and one on April 24th at 6 pm at Office of Zoning that would also allow those who had not yet testified to do so.. A Third Notice of Further Public Hearing advertising these public hearings was published in the D.C. Register on March 7, 2014, at 61 DCR 1938. The Office of Zoning also published a version of this same notice in various local newspapers as follows:
Newspaper | Publication Date |
Washington City Paper | March, 2014 |
Express | March, 2014 |
Washington Blade | March, 2014 |
The Washington Informer | March, 2014 |
The Current | March, 2014 |
In addition to the required notices of public hearing, the Office of Zoning again mailed a separate two (2)-page color flyer to all ANCs, SMDs, and civic and citizens associations notifying them of the public hearings.
During the Commission's regularly scheduled meeting of April 15, 2014, the Chairman indicated that he had received a request from Mayor Vincent C. Gray to leave the record open until September 15, 2014, so that OP could continue its public outreach and allow the public further opportunity for input. Further OP indicated that representatives from Wards 7 and 8 requested that the public hearing scheduled April 21st be cancelled; therefore, the Commission cancelled the public hearing for April 21st and the hearing for the April 24th was held as advertised.
At its regularly scheduled public meeting on June 30, 2014, the Commission decided to postpone its discussion of the proposal until July 10, 2014. On July 10, 2014, the Commission held a properly noticed special public meeting at which it received a status report from OP regarding the new regulations and asked OP various questions regarding the alternative text. At the conclusion of the meeting, the Commission set down for hearings portions of the alternative language submitted by OP and asked that some additional alternative language also be advertised. The Commission, anticipating a large number of witnesses, decided to hold the hearing over the evenings of September 8th through the 11th to ensure that all persons who wished to testify could do so.
The notice for those hearing was published in the July 25, 2014 issue of the D.C. Register, at 61 DCR 7415, and indicated the Commission would hear witnesses in the order in which the Office of Zoning was notified of their intent to testify.
Also on June 30th, the Commission decided to hold one (1) last hearing on the originally advertised text to allow those individuals, organizations, or associations who had not yet testified at a prior public hearing an opportunity to do so, except that this limitation would not apply to an ANC Commissioner. The notice for that hearing was also published in the July 25, 2014 issue of the D.C. Register, at 61 DCR 7421, and scheduled for September 4, 2014 at 6:00 p.m. The Office of Zoning also published a version of this same notice in various local newspapers as follows:
Newspaper | Publication Date |
Washington City Paper | August, 2014 |
Express | August, 2014 |
Washington Blade | August, 2014 |
The Washington Informer | August, 2014 |
The Current | August, 2014 |
Sara Bardin
Director
Office of Zoning | District of Columbia Government
441 4th Street, NW | Suite 200-S | Washington, DC 20001
(202) 727-5372 (office) | (202) 727-6072 (fax)
www.dcoz.dc.gov | sara.bardin@dc.gov
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