{"id":620,"date":"2021-05-03T20:32:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T20:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/?p=620"},"modified":"2021-05-06T01:29:58","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T01:29:58","slug":"press-alert-table-the-comp-plan-because-it-perpetuates-accelerates-racial-inequity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/dc\/620","title":{"rendered":"Press Alert: Table the Comp Plan Because it Perpetuates, Accelerates Racial Inequity"},"content":{"rendered":"
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PRESS RELEASE <\/span><\/span>
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C100 Urges DC Council To Table Comprehensive Plan Amendment Act of 2020 (Bill 24-0001) Because it Perpetuates, Accelerates Racial Inequity.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/strong>
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The Committee of 100 on the Federal City (C100) is urging the Council to \u201ctable,\u201d i.e., postpone further action on, the Committee Print of Bill 24-0001 Comprehensive Plan Amendment Act of 2020 because the current draft \u201c\u2026perpetuates and accelerates failed policies that have led to gross racial inequities and citizen disempowerment.\u201d See our April 28, 2021 letter to the Council on this matter\u00a0HERE<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0In its letter to the Council, C100 quotes from the new Council Office of Racial Equity\u2019s (CORE) report which found that the\u00a0bill\u00a0\u201c\u2026fails to disrupt the status quo of deep racial inequities in the District of Columbia [and] perpetuates the status quo\u201d including the conditions that have\u00a0led to the displacement of tens of thousands of Black DC residents.\u00a0 The CORE report further concludes that the bill distorts history, conceals data that reveal inequities, excludes Black and other groups from decision-making, lacks forceful policies, actions and accountability, and ignores the disproportionate effect of the COVID-19 public health emergency in exacerbating a divided city.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u201cWe support CORE\u2019s conclusions.,\u201d said Kirby Vining, Chair of C100.\u00a0 Unmasking the Rewrite: How to Make the Comprehensive Plan Work for DC,<\/span><\/a><\/strong> <\/em>C100\u2019s December 2020 74-page analysis of five Comp Plan elements, stated:\u00a0<\/p>\n