D.C. Mun. Regs. tit. 10-A, § 2214
2214.1 Kennedy Street NW spans the Brightwood Park and South Manor Park neighborhoods. The street is mixed-use in character, with low-density storefront commercial uses as well as residential uses. Apartment buildings, row houses, and single-family detached homes line the streets immediately adjacent to the corridor and parts of Kennedy Street itself. The street also serves as one of the few east-west transit routes in the Rock Creek East Planning Area.
2214.2 Approved by the D.C. Council in 2008, the Kennedy Street Revitalization Plan was the result of collaboration among community and government stakeholders. The plan includes broad recommendations and a community vision on how this neighborhood main street can be revitalized, detailed through urban design guidelines and illustrative concepts representing the community’s vision of where new development opportunities should be explored. The plan comprises four overarching goals: ensure a clean and safe environment to live, work, and play; create a walkable, safe public realm with mobility connections; encourage new mixed-income, mixed-use development while providing opportunities for existing residents and businesses; and empower residents to support implementation of the plan.
2214.3 During the last several years, the District has targeted resources to the area for crime prevention, community cleanup, public safety, short-term family housing support, streetscape improvements, and designation as a federal Opportunity Zone, while residents and business owners have come together to support the revitalization of Kennedy Street. This has generated interest in the area and attracted new residents, businesses, and activities. While the neighborhoods surrounding the corridor are quite relatively unchanged, demographic changes have altered the kinds of retail services that are needed. Typical businesses on the corridor have included convenience stores, beauty/barber shops and carry-outs. Kennedy Street is evolving into a more vibrant mixed-use area, with new local-serving businesses and restaurants. The success of existing businesses also should be encouraged as this revival occurs.
2214.4 The diverse population in the Brightwood area, including those aged 60 and over, provides an opportunity to bolster the tenant mix and attract new mixed-use development. Existing services, such as the Hattie B. Holmes Senior Wellness Center, the Kennedy short-term family housing facility, and new mixed-use development, with street activated uses and mixed-income housing above, will catalyze revitalization along the corridor.
Improve Kennedy Street NW between Georgia Avenue and 1st Street NW as a locally oriented neighborhood shopping street. A distinct identity should be
created for the street to boost the performance of existing businesses and attract new businesses to the vacant storefronts on the corridor.
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Encourage moderate-density, mixed-use projects along Kennedy Street NW, including public and mixed-income housing to serve all generations of residents in the neighborhood.
2214.7
Target public investment along the Kennedy Street corridor in ways that will leverage private investment and create public benefits. This should include streetscape and building façade improvements, culture and public art, partnerships with neighborhood and business organizations, and the development of key public properties.
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)).