D.C. Mun. Regs. tit. 10-A, § 1104
1104.1 The District’s CIP includes District-owned facilities (e.g., libraries, recreation centers, District offices, parking lots), District-owned equipment (e.g., police cars, fire trucks, snow removal equipment), and transportation infrastructure (e.g., roads, bridges, Metro). Washington, DC can maximize the strategic impact of these large investments by improving inter-disciplinary/cross-sector coordination and by linking them to neighborhood revitalization strategies, private investment plans, facilities master plans, and long-range growth plans. For example, District investments in transportation may be a key part of stimulating construction of a major new development. Investments in a new community center or school may be a pivotal component of commercial district renovation, and so on. The District has begun to formalize this relationship through policy links between the CIP and the Comprehensive Plan.
1104.2 The DC Office of Planning (OP) helps the District to develop and refine principles for capital planning and to coordinate links among long-range growth plans, facilities master plans, and the CIP.
Continue to use the capital improvement program process to coordinate the phasing, prioritizing, and funding of public facilities.
Continue to improve links between the Comprehensive Plan and the District’s CIP through the Public Facilities Plan, which should be systematic, comprehensive, and based on analytical data about community needs, service levels, and projections, in addition to facility condition assessments. Additionally, provide relevant Comprehensive Plan and Public Facilities Plan guidance to individual agencies in earlier phases of their strategic planning, facilities master planning, and budget development processes, which can strengthen cross-links and add efficiencies to the District’s annual CIP and capital budget development process.
Continue to improve the coordination of public facility construction and rehabilitation projects to minimize public costs, maximize community benefits, and avoid service disruption.
Continue to explore alternative financing strategies for projects that provide public benefits, including public facilities. Strategies include ground leases, impact investing, joint development, creative leasing arrangements, and other financing instruments that have no effect on the District’s debt cap and can
maximize financial performance and achieve public policy outcomes.
Continue to develop and fund adequate maintenance budgets for all public facilities based on industry standards. Evaluate projected operating and maintenance (O&M) costs before approving new capital facilities so that sufficient funds will be available for O&M once a new facility is constructed.
Ensure that new development pays its fair share of the capital costs needed to build or expand public facilities to serve that development. Consider the use of impact fees for schools, libraries, and public safety facilities to implement this policy. Adoption of any fees shall take potential fiscal, economic, and real estate impacts into account and shall be preceded by the extensive involvement of the development community and the community at large.
Continue to refine measurable criteria, standards, and systematic coordination procedures to evaluate capital improvement projects.
Continue to update and expand the District’s property management database, identifying the location, size, and attributes of all District-owned facilities and properties.
Improve facilities master planning processes and outcomes by coordinating facilities master planning efforts of individual agencies with public facilities planning efforts. This coordination can illuminate relationships and dynamics across systems, helping to inform the District’s public investments.
SOURCE: District of Columbia Comprehensive Plan Act of 1984, effective April 10, 1984 (D.C. Law 5-76; 31 DCR 1049 (March 9, 1984)); as amended by District of Columbia Comprehensive Plan Act of 1984 Land Use Element Amendment Act of 1984, effective March 16, 1985 (D.C. Law 5-187; 32 DCR 873 (February 15, 1985)); as amended by District of Columbia Comprehensive Plan Amendments Act of 1989, effective May 23, 1990 (D.C. Law 8-129; 37 DCR 55 (January 5, 1990)); as amended by District of Columbia Comprehensive Plan Amendments Act of 1989 NCPC-Recommended Amendments, and Closing of Public Alleys in Square 669, S.O. 88-452, Act of 1990, effective May 23, 1990 (D.C. Law 8-132; 37 DCR 2213 (April 6, 1990)); as amended by District Government Land Use Temporary Amendment Act of 1994, effective October 1, 1994 (D.C. Law 10-190; 41 DCR 5360 (August 12, 1994)); as amended by Comprehensive Plan Amendments Act of 1994, effective October 6, 1994 (D.C. Law 10-193; 41 DCR 5536 (August 19, 1994)); as amended by District of Columbia Comprehensive Plan Act of 1984 Land Use Amendment Act of 1994, effective March 21, 1995 (D.C. Law 10-235; 42 DCR 30 (January 6, 1995)); as amended by Technical Amendments Act of 1996, effective April 18, 1996 (D.C. Law 11-110; 43 DCR 530 (February 9, 1996)); as amended by Second Technical Amendments Act of 1996, effective April 9, 1997 (D.C. Law 11-255; 44 DCR 1271 (March 7, 1997)); as amended by Comprehensive Plan Amendment Act of 1998, effective April 27, 1999
(D.C. Law 12-275; 46 DCR 1441 (February 19, 1999)); as amended by Technical Amendments Act of 1999, effective April 12, 2000 (D.C. Law 13-91; 47 DCR 520 (January 28, 2000)); as amended by Comprehensive Plan Amendment Act of 2006, effective March 8, 2007 (D.C. Law 16-300; 54 DCR 924 (February 2, 2007)); as amended by Technical Amendments Act of 2008, effective March 25, 2009 (D.C. Law 17-353; 56 DCR 1117 (February 6, 2009)); as amended by Comprehensive Plan Amendment Act of 2010, effective April 8, 2011 (D.C. Law 18-361; 58 DCR 908 (February 4, 2011)); as amended by Comprehensive Plan Amendment Act of 2021, effective August 21, 2021 (D.C. Law 24-20; 68 DCR 006918 (July 16, 2021)).