We applaud this innovative project led by the Portner Place Tenants Association as an outstanding contribution to the U Street neighborhood. Not only did the Portner Place Tenants manage to save their homes through a Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA) action, they doubled the affordable housing opportunities with family-oriented units and amenities. This proposal also restores the pedestrian-scale fabric of the V Street and U Street blocks with buildings that relate to their streets, provide front-facing entrances, and offer ground floor retail on U Street.

We want to express our overall support for this outstanding document. We commend the Planning staff and Planning Board for the deliberative process that has culminated in the Plan Prince George’s 2035. This plan offers the right framework – with a few exceptions – to guide the county’s growth and development to a successful future. We applaud the many important policies and guidance the plan puts forth including: Focusing future growth around transit stations and revitalization areas inside the Beltway; Priority Investment Districts (PIDs) – we especially commend the staff and Board for the thoughtful process to create this targeted, strategic approach to using the County’s limited resources to the greatest benefit.

We support DCHA’s proposal for 1125 Spring Road to create 200 rental homes, 90% of which would be affordable. We support the proposed wide range of affordability, including deeply affordable units at 30% AMI that are so desperately needed as market pressure continues to eliminate more and more of the

Recent reports show sea level rise will contribute to flooding of our Monumental Core. Reports on the impacts of climate change are increasingly dire. We are the nation's capital, the capital of the most powerful nation the world has ever known, and this region is collectively wealthier than 99% of the

The 2014 CLRP performance assessment makes clear that while COG’s regional climate goal is to reduce emissions 80% by 2050 below 2005 levels, that the list of regional transportation projects, if built, will cause emissions to rise rather than fall. We have on our hands a Transportation Emissions Gap –