In 2025, the Office of Planning (OP) will embark on the first full rewrite of the District’s Comprehensive Plan (Comp Plan) in nearly 20 years. The Comp Plan is a long-term vision and roadmap for the District’s future.
The Comp Plan guides city decisions on where to locate housing and jobs and where and how to invest in transportation, utilities, parks, and other public resources. This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to imagine a future that reflects our values collectively. With a strong economy and increasing population, a new kind of Comp Plan is needed to ensure that our city grows equitably and has vibrant and resilient neighborhoods.
For an update on the 2021 Comp Plan status update, click here.
What is the Comprehensive Plan?
The Comp Plan is a high-level guide that sets a positive, long-term vision for the District of Columbia through the lens of its physical growth, equity, and change. The 2025 Comp Plan rewrite will allow the District to meet challenges and opportunities in critical areas such as housing and economic recovery, focusing on equity and resilience.
Why is the Comprehensive Plan important?
The Comp Plan includes policies and actions that set priorities for the District’s land use, public services, infrastructure, and capital investments. It guides the use, density, and design of buildings within the District, directly shaping the city’s physical form as it changes and develops in the future. District agencies, residents, businesses, developers, and other critical stakeholders use the Comp Plan to help guide growth and change toward a positive future for today’s residents and future generations.
How will ANC 1A engage with the new Comprehensive Plan?
The Commission’s Special Committee on Public Life will lead engagement efforts to ensure residents are fully involved in the public review and comment periods throughout the entirety of the process.
Individual Commissioners and other ANC 1A Committees will be tasked with creating summaries of applicable elements of the Comp Plan and draft amendments and redlines for consideration. Element summaries and draft amendments will be posted on a rolling basis as they are completed.
Once posted, the Commission will open an online comment form to solicit feedback on the Comp Plan amendments and redlines, in addition to public meetings to be scheduled throughout the Commission.
If you are interested in getting involved in the ANC’s Comprehensive Plan rewrite process, please contact Commissioner Anthony Thomas-Davis at [email protected].
For more information on the Comprehensive Plan, please visit https://planning.dc.gov/page/comprehensive-plan.