Category: Affordable Housing
Take Action: Show your support for missing middle housing
Dear Sonya,
There are just two days left to provide your input on Arlington’s Missing Middle Study. You will find the presentation thought-provoking about the housing challenges facing Arlington, and by responding to the questions you will help us all think about the impact of high housing costs and options for addressing Arlington’s housing needs.
View the presentation and provide feedback
What is missing middle housing? “Missing middle” refers to the range of housing types that fit between single-family detached homes and mid-to-high-rise apartment buildings. Having different types and sizes of homes helps provide more options at different price points. Examples of missing middle housing include duplexes, triplexes, and townhomes. These images are some examples shared in Arlington’s Missing Middle presentation.
The opportunity to provide feedback ends December 31. Visit Arlington’s Missing Middle Study website for more information and to provide your input today!
What’s at stake in the Comp Plan update
This presentation explains what we won with the Framework Element in October 2019. The presentation also shows how the entire Comp Plan sets the District on a path to equitable distribution of affordable housing, and shows how the Future Land Use Map (FLUM) amendments create more housing opportunities focused around transit. The FLUM provides 15% more housing capacity to make room for more people as the city grows.
CSG Additional Testimony in Support of the DC Comp Plan, B23-736
This additional testimony provides support for passing the Comp Plan swiftly. If changes are being considered, we recommend improving language to support permanent housing affordability and support for Community Land Trusts. This testimony also endorses the testimony of the Douglass Community Land Trust, DC’s District-wide community land trust.
ADU D.C. Homeowner’s Manual
How to Build an Accessory Apartment or Second Dwelling in the District of Columbia
The ADU D.C. Homeowner’s Manual is a product of the year-long ADU DC initiative launched in the spring of 2019. This effort was made possible with the support of founding funder Citi, and led by the United Planning Organization (UPO), along with its partner, the Coalition for Smarter Growth.
For more information on how to build an ADU, view the full resource folder here. Also, join our online forum on DC ADUs here.
Ward 2 Comp Plan Roundtable Nov. 19 at 7 pm
Have your say at the Ward 2 Comp Plan Roundtable
As a Ward 2 resident, you have a special opportunity to voice your support for the critical amendments to the DC Comprehensive Plan. On Nov. 19 at 7 pm, Ward 2 Councilmember Brooke Pinto is holding a roundtable to hear from you.
Sign up here for the roundtable so you can express your support for the Comp Plan update.
Let Councilmember Pinto know you support the Comp Plan update without delay because:
- It sets a goal of 15% affordable housing in each part of the city, and increased housing around transit nodes. The plan specifically calls for 1,850 more affordable homes in the Near Northwest Planning Area (mostly Ward 2) by 2025.
- It makes key changes to outdated and exclusionary land use policies.
- It gives residents more sustainable and affordable transportation options by enabling more compact, mixed-income housing near transit.
- It incorporates priority policies for dedicated transit and bicycle lanes, Vision Zero, and prioritized pedestrian access.
- It discourages too much vehicle parking, and focuses on developments designed to enhance walking and bicycling.
These changes to the Comp Plan are long overdue. Let Councilmember Pinto know that her constituents want to pass this progressive update to the Comp Plan as soon as possible.
If you haven’t already, be sure to send letters to Chairman Mendelson and the DC Council urging them to adopt the Comp Plan update this year.
For more background, check out our webpage. You can also use our model letter or these tips for talking points to prepare your comments.
Don’t miss the chance to let Councilmember Pinto know you want her to support a more equitable and sustainable city by passing the Comp Plan update without delay.
Pictured: The Liz, a mixed use, mixed income development in Ward 2. Photo credit: C. Cort
Support DC Expanded Inclusionary Zoning
The DC Zoning Commission will hear the proposal for Expanded Inclusionary Zoning on Nov. 16, 2020 at 6:30pm.
Read our testimony in support of Expanded IZ:
You can read our preliminary support in July 2020 for this proposal: CSG’s testimony here, and our joint support with Housing Priorities Coalition testimony. View Expanded IZ Case No. 20-02 Zoning Commission hearing notice and case documents here.
Sign up to testify at the 11/16/20 hearing, 6:30pm, Case Number 20-02 here.