Ken Terzian recently wrote here about the June 20th presentation by Harriet Tregoning, director of the DC Office of Planning, on the proposed changes to the DC zoning regulations. Now […]
Zoning Rewrite: Mid-Century Standards
by Ken Terzian What do you want Forest Hills to look like 50 years from now? Zoning laws that have guided our city’s development for more than 50 years are […]
Zoning Rewrite: An Introduction
by Marlene Berlin DC is in the midst of a wholesale and important rewrite of the 1958 zoning code, with proposals for new regulations that will guide the course of […]
Zoning Rewrite: Protecting Our Trees (part 1)
Neighbor Ken Terzian recently wrote to the DC Office of Planning to ask, how would the new zoning rules affect a longtime effort to protect Forest Hills’ trees and topography. […]
Zoning Rewrite: Protecting Our Trees (part 2)
George Clark is the former President of the Forest Hills Citizens Association, former Chair of the Federation of Citizen Associations, Chair of the Committee of 100 on the Federal City, […]
Zoning Rewrite: Community Zoned Out
Allowing for more population density in some parts of DC is one aim of the zoning code rewrite, but the process has also seemed dense to outsiders, and even participants. […]
New Zoning Regulations: Don’t Be Too Detached
Marjorie Rachlin has done a lot of sleuthing on behalf of Forest Hills Connection into the current effort to rewrite decades-old zoning regulations. Here’s her take on how this will […]