D.C. Mun. Regs. tit. 10-A, § 1715
1715.1 The Marshall Heights/Benning Ridge area is located south of East Capitol Street and east of the Fort Dupont Park. The area includes a mix of single-family and semi-detached homes and apartments and has a few hundred scattered vacant lots. Throughout the area, there are opportunities for infill development. Although Marshall Heights and Benning Ridge faced disinvestment and economic challenges during the late 20th century, both neighborhoods are rebounding. To accommodate this growth, neighborhood-serving amenities and retail, mixed-income housing, opportunities for arts and culture, and open space should be encouraged.
1715.2 Several developments have recently been completed or are planned. Hilltop Terrace, Carver Terrace Apartments, and JW King Senior Center have added more than 200 new homes along Benning Road and East Capitol Street. Just to the north, the former Eastgate Gardens affordable housing complex, now known as Glenncrest, has been redeveloped into 269 new homes—including housing for older adults, public housing, and market-rate family housing. As opportunities arise, adaptive reuse, compatible design, and interpretive signage or public art should be incorporated into future infill development. Continued residential infill and rehabilitation is strongly encouraged, taking care to develop at densities that are appropriate to neighborhood character. Improvement of retail centers, including the small shopping centers at Benning Road and H Street NE and Benning Road between F and G Streets NE will also be pursued in order to upgrade existing businesses and provide needed services to the surrounding communities.
Support the development of the many scattered vacant lots in the Marshall Heights community with new low-density residential development, especially single- and two-family homes. This will provide ownership opportunities for area residents and housing stock needed to attract families with children back to the Far Northeast and Southeast Area. Improve schools, parks, and other public services in Marshall Heights to meet the needs created by additional growth and attract families to the area.
Develop Eastgate Gardens as a mixed-income community containing housing for older adults, affordable housing, homeownership opportunities, and a community arts center. As population increases here and elsewhere in Marshall Heights, pursue the refurbishing of shopping areas along Benning Road to better serve the surrounding community. The revitalization of neighborhood-serving retail and shopping districts along the Benning Road corridor should be encouraged.
1715.4a Text box: Fletcher-Johnson Campus
The Fletcher-Johnson Campus is positioned several blocks north of the Marshall Heights neighborhood, south of the Kipp DC Benning Campus, west of the DMV and Benco Shopping Center and east of the Maryland state line. Fletcher-Johnson closed in 2008, though portions of the building were previously leased to public charter schools, and the facility was last used as a swing space for HD Woodson High School during its modernization. The building has been vacant since 2011.
1715.4b The Deputy Mayor of Education (DME) previously released a request for offers (RFO) and evaluated offers for the school in 2014; however, no award was made. Prior to restarting the RFO process in 2017, DME confirmed that the Department of General Services (DGS) could not immediately identify other government use for Fletcher-Johnson in the near term. DGS officially surplused the property in 2019, making it available for disposition by DMPED.
1715.4c The site offers a unique opportunity for the District to reshape a long-languishing property into a benefit for residents and the District as a whole. Previous public input into the redevelopment plan has been extensive and widespread, resulting in various community preferences for the site.
1715.4d DMPED issued a request for proposals (RFP) for Fletcher-Johnson.
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)).