D.C. Mun. Regs. tit. 10-A, § 2209
Maintain and improve the Civil War Defenses of Washington, otherwise known as the Fort Circle Parks, especially Fort Stevens and Fort Slocum. The Fort Circle green spaces should be more effectively linked and commemorated, and conserved as an essential cultural, historical, recreational, aesthetic, and natural resource.
Protect, preserve, and increase public awareness of buildings, facilities, and places of historic and archaeological significance in Rock Creek East, including Rock Creek Park, the Fort Circle Parks, the Lucinda Cady House, George Lightfoot House, Van View, Hampshire Gardens, Petworth Gardens, Rock Creek Parish Glebe, and the Takoma Park, Grant Circle, Walter Reed, AFRH, and Marjorie Webster historic districts. Identify and increase awareness of other places of potential significance, and consider appropriate protections, incorporating the community’s recommendations as part of the process.
Improve multimodal access to Rock Creek Park by providing additional parking, public transit service, bicycle trails, wayfinding, and walking paths. Expand outdoor recreational activities at the park to better meet community needs.
Carefully assess the erosion and drainage impacts of existing and proposed development, particularly in the North Capitol/Rock Creek Church area, where flooding has been a problem.
Assist small and local businesses along Kennedy Street, Georgia Avenue, and other Rock Creek East commercial districts in providing neighborhood services and creating job opportunities for area residents.
Community services should be responsive to cultural changes in the Rock Creek East community, particularly the growing number of Latino residents in the Planning Area.
Expand access to parkland in the southern part of the Planning Area (Petworth, Brightwood, and 16th Street Heights). The Parks and Recreation Master Plan identified these areas as being particularly deficient in parkland acreage. The
opportunity for publicly accessible open space at the AFRH should be considered as part of the site’s redevelopment.
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Conserve and enhance the important scenic and visual resources of Rock Creek East, including the areas of the AFRH site and the Fort Circle Parks. Future development should be designed to highlight and respond to scenic assets.
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In collaboration with the NPS, explore the feasibility of developing additional community-serving recreational facilities at Rock Creek Park and within the Fort Circle Parks to increase recreational options, public safety, and community stewardship of these assets. All facilities should be consistent with the General Management Plans for these park areas.
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Document places of potential historic significance in the Rock Creek East Planning Area, with a priority on the Petworth, Brightwood, Crestwood, Crestwood North, 16th Street Heights, Shepherd Park, North Portal Estates, and Colonial Village areas. Identify appropriate preservation efforts for these places, using community recommendations and the Ward 4 Heritage Guide prepared by the DC Historic Preservation Office as part of the process. Consider expanding the Takoma Historic District to include appropriate structures and places. Identify significant historic anchors and architectural resources along the upper 16th Street corridor and evaluate properties meriting recognition through historic designation. Use other existing programs and mechanisms as needed to preserve and enhance neighborhood character.
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Determine the feasibility of developing a new recreation center that considers the needs of Shepherd Park, as well as the Walter Reed site and Colonial Village area. The Parks and Recreation Master Plan identified this area as needing additional recreation center space.
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Complete the Metropolitan Branch Trail from Fort Totten to the Maryland border at Takoma, integrating it into planning for the broader neighborhood as a transportation asset and also for placemaking and economic development.
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Enhance the defining characteristics of Georgia Avenue, 16th Street, and New Hampshire Avenue NW as gateway thoroughfares through Rock Creek East connecting with Maryland. The thoroughfares’ origins and purpose should define how public space and buildings along them enhance views toward important civic
monuments and distant landmarks, create neighborhood-defining places, and complete Washington DC’s park and open space system.
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)).