Another problem with the DC Comprehensive Plan not requiring transportation demand management (except in one instance)

Bloomingdale (for now) reports, in "update on government agency hypocrisy" about proposals to locate the DC Department of the Environment in a deaccessioned school building in LeDroit Park, but not having enough parking to accommodate the workers.

The DC Comprehensive Plan should require TDM planning for all DC Government agencies. Mode shift away from automobile trips should be the priority.

The Comp Plan should require DC Government agencies to locate within 1/2 mile of subway stations.

Preferably, rather than locate the agencies all across the city, they should be located in proximity to each other (a form of agglomeration economies) to increase connection and reduce trips. This should be in the Comp Plan too.

Otherwise, we are doing a form of what I call "intra-city sprawl." (Also see "inward suburbanization."
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Note: the one requirement for transportation demand management planning in the DC Comprehensive Plan is for matters relating to Planned Unit Development zoning requests (see the Transportation Element of the Comp Plan).

In all the Comp Plan drafts, it was suggested this could be done, but it was not required. Because of my frequent testimonies about the various "failures" in the transportation element, the final version of the Comp Plan saw a change in this provision, from optional to required.