The Cleveland Park Historical Society

Register to take a DC Office of Planning Community Walk.  Make your voice heard!

On June 22 and June 25, join a Connecticut Avenue Community Walk organized by the DC Office of Planning and project team to share information about the planning project and listen to the ideas and priorities of the community. This is your chance to let the city know how you feel about future development of the Connecticut Avenue Commercial Corridor, most of which is part of the Historic District.  The walk will start outside the Cleveland Park Metro Station (3524 Connecticut Avenue) and will cover a one-mile stretch between Porter Street and Calvert Street NW.  Registration is required here.

The DC Office of Planning describes the Connecticut Avenue Development Guidelines as a neighborhood planning effort focused on the Cleveland Park and Woodley Park neighborhoods and is part of a broader Rock Creek West Corridors Planning initiative outlined in the 2021 Rock Creek West Road Map. The planning process is led by the DC Office of Planning (OP) and is intended to implement the Comprehensive Plan Act of 2021, particularly where land use designations have been updated along Connecticut Ave.

The stated goal of the Development Guidelines is to “determine how to support the need for additional housing, particularly affordable housing, in these high-capacity transit nodes while allowing for development that is compatible in character with the established historic districts. The effort will be undertaken in collaboration with OP’s Historic Preservation Office and the Historic Preservation Review Board to determine how design can both support the historic districts and meet the new land use designations provided in the updated Comprehensive Plan.”