Facilities & Procurement Public Hearing

Council OF THE District OF Columbia Committee on Facilities and Procurement R o b e r t C . W h i t e , J r. , C h a i r Notice OF Public Hearing B23-0245, the "Advisory Neighborhood Commissions Participation in Planning Amendment Act of 2019" B23-0308, the "Development Expertise for ANCs Amendment Act of 2019" Wednesday, October 16^^, 2019,10:00 AM Room 412, John A. Wilson Building 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20004 On Wednesday, October 16"^, 2019, Councilmember Robert C. White Jr., Chair of the Committee on Facilities and Procurement, will hold a public hearing on B23-245, the "Advisory Neighborhood Commissions Participation in Planning Amendment Act of 2019" and B23-0308, the "Development Expertise for ANCs Amendment Act of 2019". The public hearing will take place in Room 412 of the John A. Wilson Building, 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., at 10:00 A M . The stated purpose of B23-0245, the "Advisory Neighborhood Commissions Participation in Planning Amendment Act of 2019" is to ensure that Advisory Neighborhood Commissions are provided adequate notice and an opportunity to provide recommendations on comprehensive plans, including amendments to, or elements of, a comprehensive plan prior to the transmission of such plans to the Council for approval. The stated purpose of B23-0308, the "Development Expertise for ANCs Amendment Act of 2019" is to establish a Department of Zoning, Planning and Development in the Office of Advisory Neighborhood Commissions to assist Commissioners in Planned Unit Development negotiations and residential housing development and maximize the amount of affordable housing units in residential Planned Unit Development projects and to include Planned Unit Developments in the definition of economic development incentives for the purpose of tracking community benefits and affordable housing units delivered. The Committee invites the public to testify in person or to submit written testimony. Anyone wishing to testify should contact the Committee via e-mail at facilities@dccouncil.us or at (202) 741-8593, and provide their name, phone number or e-mail, organizational affiliation, and title (if any) by close of business on Tuesday, October IS^** 2019. If you require translation or interpretation services, please notify the Committee at least one week prior to the date of the public hearing. All public witnesses will be allowed a maximum of four minutes for oral testimony, while Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners will have a maximum of five minutes to testify. At the discretion of the Chair, the length of time provided for oral testimony may be reduced if there are Page 1 of 2 a large number of witnesses. Witnesses are encouraged, but not required, to bring twenty single- sided copies of their testimony in writing and submit their written testimony electronically in advance to facilities@,dccouncil.us. Witnesses are advised that should the public roundtable extend beyond 12:00 p.m. or 6:00 p.m., the Committee will recess for a period of twenty minutes at each time. Should more than one hundred witnesses request to testify in person, the public roundtable will recess after the first one hundred witnesses and any witnesses signed up after the first one hundred will, at the discretion of the chair, be given the opportunity to either provide oral testimony when the roundtable reconvenes at a later date or submit written testimony for the record. For witnesses who are unable to testify at the hearing, written testimony will be made part of the official record. Copies of written testimony should be submitted to the Committee at facilities@dccouncil.us or to Nyasha Smith, Secretary of the Council, 1350 Pefinsylvania Avenue, N.W., Suite 5, Washington, DC 20004. The record will close at the close of business on Wednesday, October SO"*, 2019. Page 2 of 2