D.C. Mun. Regs. tit. 10-A, § 2114
2114.1 At one time, the Foggy Bottom and Georgetown waterfronts included industrial uses, such as gas works, glass companies, breweries, and warehouses. Most of these buildings were removed long ago to make way for office, retail, parks, and residential development. Some have been adapted for contemporary mixed-use development. The waterfront has emerged as a major activity center, with new parkland west of the Washington Harbour complex.
2114.2 In recent years, the extension of the waterfront park from Washington Harbour to the Key Bridge has created a new, popular regional public attraction for Georgetown, revitalizing a long-neglected portion of the riverfront.
Provide a continuous linear park connection along the Potomac River waterfront in Georgetown and Foggy Bottom, including paths for pedestrians and bicyclists, fountains, seating areas, landscaping and open space, lighting, public access to the water, new non-motorized boating facilities, and fishing areas. Focus on improving safe pedestrian access routes to and from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Watergate Complex, and to and from the larger Foggy Bottom neighborhood. A long-range plan in partnership with federal agencies to re-urbanize and improve connections over Route 66 will be needed in order to truly reconnect Foggy Bottom to its riverfront and better use land. The plan should also take into account the area’s potential flood vulnerability caused by climate change and sea level rise.
Partner with NPS and other federal agencies to conserve open space along the Potomac waterfront and preserve the wooded and scenic qualities of the Potomac Palisades and adjacent islands and shoreline. Be sensitive to the risks posed by climate change that increase flood risk along the river.
Support efforts by NPS and partners to restore, reimagine, and revitalize the C&O Canal National Historic Park.
Explore multimodal options to improve high-capacity transit from Rosslyn, Virginia to Georgetown and from Georgetown to other parts of the District.
Work with NPS to stabilize the Potomac River’s banks, clean tidal flat areas, and reduce erosion along the Potomac shoreline and along Rock Creek.
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Support redevelopment of the West Heating Plant to include residential uses and a publicly accessible park with pedestrian and bicycle connections to Rock Creek Park and the C&O Canal National Historical Park. The connectivity should foster travel from those parks and trails to Georgetown and points south. Work with NPS to widen the bike/pedestrian path beside the Rock Creek Parkway to protect the safety of its many users.
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)).