{"id":1039,"date":"2024-03-15T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T00:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savedcpublicland.org\/the1617project\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2026-04-19T17:09:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T17:09:53","slug":"office-of-attorney-general-op-failed-to-perform-the-public-outreach-and-engagement-component-of-the-racial-equity-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedcpublicland.org\/the1617project\/2024\/03\/15\/office-of-attorney-general-op-failed-to-perform-the-public-outreach-and-engagement-component-of-the-racial-equity-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Office of Attorney General: &#8220;[DC Office of Planning] failed to perform the public outreach and engagement component of the racial equity tool&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div><em><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Citing to the attached letter from the Office of the Attorney General:<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: large;\">[P]roblems resulting from the racial equity tool\u2019s lack of clarity and codification have recently arisen in Z.C. Case No. 23-02 [<a href=\"https:\/\/savedcpublicland.org\/the1617project\/2024\/01\/24\/zoning-commission-chair-anthony-hood-agrees-with-community-wants-more-public-outreach\/\">The 1617 U Street Luxury Upzoning Case<\/a>].<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">In that case, OP, the applicant, failed to perform the public outreach and engagement component of the racial equity tool, thereby impacting the ability of OP and the Commission to complete the racial equity tool.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/savedcpublicland.org\/the1617project\/2024\/01\/29\/press-alert-community-asks-that-17-u-luxury-rezoning-be-dismissed-today-4pm\/\">As multiple members of the public have noted<\/a>, had the racial equity tool requirements been clarified and codified within the Zoning Regulations, it would have provided not only clarity on when and how the outreach should have been done, but also would have provided the Commission with a process for dealing with any omissions or oversights in the completion of the racial equity analysis.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Without these regulatory safeguards, the Commission is left to \u201cad lib\u201d procedures, which not only negatively affect community involvement but also raise issues of legal sufficiency.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&#8211;OAG (attached in full)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_signature\" dir=\"ltr\" data-smartmail=\"gmail_signature\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"postie-attachments\"><a href=\"https:\/\/savedcpublicland.org\/the1617project\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/22-25-NOPR-Comments-OAG-to-OZ-3-14-24-1.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/savedcpublicland.org\/the1617project\/wp-content\/plugins\/postie\/icons\/metro\/pdf-64.png\" alt=\"pdf icon\" \/> 22-25-NOPR-Comments-OAG-to-OZ-3-14-24-1.pdf<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citing to the attached letter from the Office of the Attorney General: \u00a0 [P]roblems resulting from the racial equity tool\u2019s lack of clarity and codification have recently arisen in Z.C. Case No. 23-02 [The 1617 U Street Luxury Upzoning Case]. \u00a0 In that case, OP, the applicant, failed to perform the public outreach and engagement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1617u","category-affordability","category-publicland","category-zoning"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/savedcpublicland.org\/the1617project\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/DC_Attorney_General_Seal.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedcpublicland.org\/the1617project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedcpublicland.org\/the1617project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedcpublicland.org\/the1617project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedcpublicland.org\/the1617project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedcpublicland.org\/the1617project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/savedcpublicland.org\/the1617project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1049,"href":"https:\/\/savedcpublicland.org\/the1617project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions\/1049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedcpublicland.org\/the1617project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedcpublicland.org\/the1617project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedcpublicland.org\/the1617project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedcpublicland.org\/the1617project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}