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District of Columbia Industrial Areas Study DC Office of Planning Prepared by Phillips Preiss Shapiro Associates, Inc. 4.7.1 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN GUIDELINES The four industrial land classifications discussed in sections 4.2 through 4.5—areas for retention, intensification, municipal use, and land use change—should be reflected in the final adopted update of the Comprehensive Plan’s land use policy map. On the prior Comprehensive Plan map, these areas were designated “production and technical employment.” Striping was used to indicate where this category could be mixed with other uses. The new map should adopt the PDR designation, consistent with this report, and the map should reflect all the areas programmed for retention, intensification, municipal use, and land use change. A new category of ‘Municipal Service Area” should be added to the Comp Plan map as well. This designation can be shown as a solid color over publicly-owned land such as DC Village; and in a striped pattern mixed with the PDR color for areas where private ownership predominates. Likewise, the PDR color should be solid in areas recommended for IP and M zoning; and striped with commercial designations elsewhere. The economic development chapter, as well as the land use chapter, of the Comprehensive Plan should reflect the recommendations of this report. To that end, a summarized version of the major land use recommendations, albeit in a less specified form, has been incorporated into the Economic Development background study for the Comprehensive Plan. It is hoped that some version of this language will be incorporated into the policies and strategies of the final Plan document. 4.7.2 REZONING CRITERIA Early in this planning process, OP requested that criteria be developed that would provide guidance to the Zoning Commission with regards to rezoning requests. These criteria would be based upon the following factors: Land use context: is the area clearly industrial in nature? Does it adjoin residential or commercial areas? Would it function as a logical extension of such areas? Would a land use change likely result in addition pressure on remaining industrial lands? Transportation context: does the site have appropriate access for trucks or freight rail? Can the property be accessed without using residential streets? How far is the property from a major arterial roadway or freeway? Is it adjacent to a Metro stop? Environmental context: is the site contaminated? If so, could it be cleaned to residential standards? What use would best facilitate environmental cleanup? Conversely, are there sensitive environmental features that would make the site inappropriate for industrial use? Existing conditions: Are the current uses considered appropriate or undesirable? Would redevelopment require significant displacement of existing uses? - 111 -
District of Columbia Industrial Areas Study DC Office of Planning Prepared by Phillips Preiss Shapiro Associates, Inc. Unique characteristics: Would redevelopment remove from the District’s “portfolio” a unique building or site that would be difficult to replace? Conversely, is there a unique building that is functionally obsolete but attractive for adaptive reuse? Municipal needs: Can it be reasonably anticipated that the site in question may be needed for municipal or other public service purposes in the foreseeable future? From these topical points, the Office of Planning is currently developing a systematic set of zoning criteria to evaluate zoning change proposals going forward. The development of this criteria is near completion at the time of the writing of this report. - 112 -
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