After D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson released changes to the crucial land-use document, the analysis said it doesn’t fully address systemic racism.

The Office of Planning is hosting a series of meetings to get a sense of what residents want.

What does U Street have in common with Berkeley, California and the Milwaukee Riverwalk? It has a place on the American Planning Association’s Great Places in America list, which tallies up the 30 best neighborhoods, streets and public spaces in the U.S.

Ah, the Height Act — that singular piece of regulation, whose repeal, many would have you believe, would go a long way toward solving any number of problems that Washington currently faces: from traffic to housing, retail to population growth. Such opponents of the Act will certainly have cringed this morning upon reading this report in today’s Washington Post, explaining how a potential development over the rails behind Union Station which would scrape — or violate, depending on your perspective — the limit is yet again being slapped with accusations that it will “scar” the area. Oh, the horror, the horror!

Brace yourself: the first Walmart rendering is out, and it actually looks…good. In addition to reporting on the retail behemoth’s concession “to consider an array of layouts, designs and parking arrangements,” the Post’s Jonathan O’Connell did the internets a favor yesterday and shared three high-quality renderings of the proposed Walmart which would be constructed at 801 New Jersey Avenue NW.

WMATA, at least part of it, has officially joined the blogosphere! We’ll fully admit to not noticing that Metro’s Office of Long Range Planning had started a blog — cleverly titled PlanItMetro — until this morning, but I’ll be the first to admit that its got some interesting stuff to share.