National Capital Planning Commission

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NATIONAL CAPITAL PLANNING COMMISSION

401 Ninth Street NW., Suite 500, Washington, DC 20004

Phone, 202-482-7200. Internet, www.ncpc.gov.

Chairman John V. Cogbill III

Vice Chairman Robert E. Miller

Members Herbert A. Ames, Arrington Dixon, Stacie S. Turner

Ex Officio:

(Secretary of the Interior) Dirk Kempthorne

(Secretary of Defense) Robert M. Gates

(Administrator of General Services) Lurita A. Doan

(Chairman, Senate Committee on Joseph I. Lieberman

Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs)

(Chairman, House Committee on Henry A. Waxman

Oversight and Government Reform)

(Mayor of the District of Columbia) Adrian M. Fenty

(Chairman, Council of the District Vincent C. Gray

of Columbia)

Staff:

Executive Director Marcel Acosta, Acting

Deputy Executive Director (vacancy)

Chief Operating Officer Barry S. Socks

Director, Planning Research and Julia A. Koster

Policy Division

Director, Plan and Project William G. Dowd

Implementation Division

Director, Urban Design and Plan David W. Levy, Acting

Review Division

Special Assistant to Executive Michael Sherman

Director

General Counsel Lois J. Schiffer

Director, Office of Public Affairs Lisa N. MacSpadden

Secretariat Deborah B. Young

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The National Capital Planning Commission is the central agency for conducting planning and development activities for Federal lands and facilities in the National Capital Region. The region includes the District of Columbia and all land areas within the boundaries of Montgomery and Prince George's Counties in Maryland and Fairfax, Loudoun, Prince William, and Arlington Counties and the city of Alexandria in Virginia.

The National Capital Planning Commission was established as a park planning agency by act of June 6, 1924, as amended (40 U.S.C. 71 et seq.). Two years later its role was expanded to include comprehensive planning. In 1952, under the National Capital Planning Act, the Commission was designated the central planning agency for the Federal and District of Columbia governments.

In 1973, the National Capital Planning Act was amended by the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, which made

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the Mayor of the District of Columbia the chief planner for the District and gave the Commission specific...