The prospect of amending the Height Act has taken on new urgency as city officials seek to build consensus around a vision for reinventing an emptier downtown.
Any change to the Height Act would require congressional approval, which seems unlikely now with a Republican-led House. Even when Democrats controlled Congress and President Barack Obama was in office, proponents of relaxing the Height Act only managed to tweak the law to allow for penthouses.Rep. James Comer , the new chair of the House Oversight Committee, which presides over D.C.
A long-standing facet of D.C. lore is that Congress enacted the Height Act to ensure the skyline supremacy of the Washington Monument and the U.S. Capitol . What actually drove lawmakers to draft the law were protests that followed the construction of what in 1894 was an architectural anomaly — the 164-foot-tall Cairo apartment building that still stands on Q Street NW near 16th Street.
“Our skyline is in itself historic and is a treasure for the whole nation, and I think it’s important that we protect that,” BowserAdvertisement “But I do think there could be opportunities to tinker with it to allow for the types of conversions and density we will need moving forward,” she said, adding, “We know that we have to change buildings, that we have to be willing to think about what changes are necessary to make that transition possible.”Rebecca Miller, executive director of the D.C.
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