D.C. Mun. Regs. tit. 10-A, § 632
632.1 Environmental and economic development goals intersect with respect to the redevelopment of brownfield sites. Brownfields include industrial, commercial, institutional, or government sites that are abandoned or underused, in part due to environmental contamination or perceived contamination. Their redevelopment provides the opportunity to revitalize underserved communities, increase property tax revenue, and create new jobs. In the District, a Voluntary Clean up Program has been initiated to provide incentives to clean up brownfields and put them back into active use.
632.2 Linked to the redevelopment of brownfields is the idea of growing the environmental sector of the District’s economy. A number of Washington, DC-based organizations have pioneered the idea of building a green-collar workforce to demonstrate how employment and natural resource conservation can sustain one another. Training programs have been established to help District youth find jobs in green construction, horticulture, parks and recreation, landscaping, recycling, renewable energy, and similar professions. The District can contribute to these programs through initiatives to attract green businesses to Washington, DC. Such efforts can help diversify the economy and provide new jobs while advancing the sustainability goals of the Comprehensive Plan.
Clean up and redevelop contaminated brownfield sites, providing new business and job opportunities and expanding land resources for equitable development, as appropriate, housing and affordable housing, as appropriate, open space, and other purposes. Expand financial incentives for the remediation and redevelopment of these sites.
Continue to train more District residents to be competitive for livable-wage jobs in growing industries such as sustainability, the environment, and resilience. Connect underemployed residents to training programs and any necessary social services.
Support economic incentives that encourage environmentally sustainable businesses to locate in the District.
Continue the District’s Voluntary Clean Up Program. The program is designed to encourage the investigation and remediation of contamination on any site that is not on the EPA’s National Priority List and that is not the subject of a current clean-up effort.
632.7 Action E-7.3.B: Sustainable Business Program Develop a more robust, voluntary sustainable business program that partners with businesses to help them operate sustainably.
632.8 Action E-7.3.C: Green-Collar Job Corps Continue to implement green-collar job training programs focused on GI installation and maintenance, solar installations, and lead abatement in order to educate and train unemployed or underemployed District residents. Efforts should be made to connect trainees with employers in the green fields upon the completion of their training programs.
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)).