The D.C. Office of the Attorney General is revamping its Land Use section to focus on housing affordability, racial equity and environmental justice, it announced Thursday.
The move, initiated by Attorney General Karl Racine, will put legal heft behind a movement to expand the city’s inclusionary zoning program and provide greater affordability for tenants.
“My office has always had tremendous expertise in complex issues of zoning and land use, and I’m proud that we are now using this knowledge to level the playing field between wealthy developers and long-term residents,” Racine said in a statement.
The office previously provided confidential legal counsel to the Zoning Commission or Board of Zoning Adjustment, a power that was transferred to the Office of Zoning this year.
Racine’s office said it will push to expand the areas in which developers must provide inclusionary zoning units and lower the income threshold for those units.
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