Planning in Ward 3
The Comprehensive Plan for the National Capital: District Elements has Area Elements (chapters) that provide geographically-specific policy guidance. Area Elements that cover neighborhoods within Ward 3 include:
- Rock Creek West – This area element completely encompasses the neighborhoods in Ward 3, as well as the neighborhoods in Ward 4 west of Rock Creek Park.
The Comprehensive Plan’s Area Elements use planning boundaries, not Ward boundaries. The Comprehensive Plan is a 20-year plan, while Ward boundaries are political boundaries that can change every 10 years due to redistricting following the decennial Census.
The Comprehensive Plan Amendment project web page is plandc.dc.gov. Questions, comments and feedback on the Comprehensive Plan should be emailed to [email protected].
Neighborhood and corridor plans for Ward 3 include:
- Chevy Chase Small Area Plan: a Small Area Plan underway.
- Tenleytown Public Life Study: a public life study completed in 2019.
- Van Ness Commercial District Action Strategy: a Vision Framework completed in 2016.
- Shades of Green Infrastructure & Pavement Removal Strategy for Van Ness: a public space companion piece to the Van Ness Commercial District Action Strategy completed in 2016.
- Friendship Heights Retail Action Strategy: a SWOT analysis, retail demand analysis, and strategy compelted in 2010.
- Tenleytown Retail Action Strategy: a SWOT analysis, retail demand analysis, and strategy completed in 2010.
- Neighborhood Sustainability Indicators Pilot Project: a planning initiative to better define sustainability at the local level for a subsection of Ward 3, completed in 2009.
- Glover Park Commercial District Study: a study completed in 2006.
Development Review in Ward 3
Historic Preservation in Ward 3
- C & O Canal Historic District
- Cleveland Park Historic District
- Foxhall Village Historic District
- Grant Road Historic District
- Massachusetts Avenue Historic District
- Mount Vernon Seminary Historic District
- National Zoological Park Historic District
- Rock Creek Park Historic District
- Washington Cathedral Historic District
- Woodley Park Historic District
Ward 3 Maps and Data
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