{"id":294,"date":"2023-05-17T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T00:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savedcpublicland.org\/the1617project\/?p=294"},"modified":"2026-02-10T01:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T01:16:08","slug":"anc-1c-further-discussion-of-1617-u-street-project-starts-at-10pm-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedcpublicland.org\/the1617project\/2023\/05\/17\/anc-1c-further-discussion-of-1617-u-street-project-starts-at-10pm-at-night\/","title":{"rendered":"ANC 1C Further &#8220;Discussion&#8221; of 1617 U Street Project starts at 10PM at night!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>ANC 1C PZT May 17, 2023 Recap<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>1617 U Street project discussion:<\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/MXsEYU5jebg?feature=share&amp;t=8941\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/MXsEYU5jebg?feature=share&amp;t=8941<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Commissioner Margaret Stevens<\/b> had a conversation with the Office of Planning: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/MXsEYU5jebg?feature=share&amp;t=902\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/MXsEYU5jebg?feature=share&amp;t=902<\/a>6<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is Split Zoning Allowed: &#8220;Yes, if Zoning Commission says&#8221; &#8220;Zoning is guided by the Comp Plan and Future Land Use Map&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/MXsEYU5jebg?feature=share&amp;t=9027\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/MXsEYU5jebg?feature=share&amp;t=9027<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Other Opportunities for the public to &#8220;chime in&#8221;: &#8220;Other groups (agencies) like HPRB . . . because there are contributing structures are historical surrounding that site&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/MXsEYU5jebg?feature=share&amp;t=9108\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/MXsEYU5jebg?feature=share&amp;t=9108<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Commissioner John Jones: <\/b>&#8220;What about an impact study?&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/MXsEYU5jebg?feature=share&amp;t=9365\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/MXsEYU5jebg?feature=share&amp;t=9365<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Jason Williamson, Acct Manager for Ward 1 and 3 at the DC Dept of Buildings: <\/b>&#8220;DOB&#8217;s place in this development, primarily the Office of Zoning Administration housed in DOB interprets the zoning laws as it relates to planned building&#8230; so when permits applied for and OZA interprets and reviews the plans against the zoning regulations.&#8221; &#8220;I really don&#8217;t know much about the project.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/MXsEYU5jebg?feature=share&amp;t=9433\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/MXsEYU5jebg?feature=share&amp;t=9433<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Commissioner Daniel Horrowitz:<\/b> &#8220;Would split zoning cause any complications around construction or a design of the building, would it be one contiguous building if it were split zoning?&#8221; \u00a0<i>&#8211;Not really answered&#8211;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Daniel Lyons, DMPED<\/b>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/MXsEYU5jebg?feature=share&amp;t=9766\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/MXsEYU5jebg?feature=share&amp;t=9766<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;There is no project no, there are no plans now, there are no proposals now.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;HPO (DC Hist Preservation Office) will review the plans when there are plans for compatibility with the neighborhood, rhythm and texture and materials. They won&#8217;t be revisiting the Comp Plan changes or zoning such as height and setback.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I&#8217;ve outlined all of the public meetings that have taken place in the past and into the future.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Commissioner Jones:<\/b> &#8220;The impact is going to be great, at the initial part of the process we need to do an impact study and what it will do to those in the neighborhood.&#8221; &#8220;At the beginning of the process&#8221; \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/MXsEYU5jebg?feature=share&amp;t=9993\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/MXsEYU5jebg?feature=share&amp;t=9993<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>DMPED on studies:<\/b> &#8220;I&#8217;ll just say that studies like that are not germane to the map amendment case, the Zoning Commission will be focused on the alignment of the zoning application with the Comp Plan.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/MXsEYU5jebg?feature=share&amp;t=10082\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/MXsEYU5jebg?feature=share&amp;t=10082<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Chris Otten&#8217;s three inquiries to DMPED:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/MXsEYU5jebg?feature=share&amp;t=10476\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/MXsEYU5jebg?feature=share&amp;t=10476<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>DMPED responds: <\/b>&#8220;Studies will be done when there are plans and a project before us and there is not one right now. It will be on the developer to explain the impacts that their proposal will have.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/MXsEYU5jebg?feature=share&amp;t=10651\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/MXsEYU5jebg?feature=share&amp;t=10651<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANC 1C PZT May 17, 2023 Recap 1617 U Street project discussion: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/MXsEYU5jebg?feature=share&amp;t=8941 Commissioner Margaret Stevens had a conversation with the Office of Planning: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/MXsEYU5jebg?feature=share&amp;t=9026 Is Split Zoning Allowed: &#8220;Yes, if Zoning Commission says&#8221; &#8220;Zoning is guided by the Comp Plan and Future Land Use Map&#8221; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/MXsEYU5jebg?feature=share&amp;t=9027 Other Opportunities for the public to &#8220;chime in&#8221;: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,13,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1617u","category-ancs","category-zoning"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedcpublicland.org\/the1617project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","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=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/savedcpublicland.org\/the1617project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296,"href":"https:\/\/savedcpublicland.org\/the1617project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedcpublicland.org\/the1617project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedcpublicland.org\/the1617project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedcpublicland.org\/the1617project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}