The Office of Planning has started to consider what changes to WP Connecticut Ave zoning to propose to the Zoning Commission. They will meet with WPCA “to introduce the OP team, summarize where we are, how we propose to move forward and to hear any issues that are of particular interest to” us on Tuesday March 11 at 7:30 via Zoom.

As background, the 2021 amendments to the DC Comprehensive Plan call for greater height and density along the WP and CP stretches of Connecticut Ave. The next step was OP’s drafting of development guidelines, which was completed in Sept 2023. The guidelines contemplate a building rising to 90 feet above the CVS at Connecticut and Calvert and to 105 feet on the west side of the avenue (see page 23). (Any specific development proposals would be subject to HPRB review.)

OP will also consider whether to recommend any changes to the existing limit on the number of restaurants in WP. That restriction was originally adopted to ensure that restaurants would not crowd out other neighbor-serving businesses in this relatively small commercial district.