September Meeting Recap

NCPC approved an amendment to the final master plan for the 310-acre National Institutes of Health (NIH) campus located in Bethesda, Maryland, noting their appreciation that NIH staff addressed prior concerns about campus parking. The amendment adds two projects to the plan previously approved in 2016: a connected parking garage/utility vault and a Clinical Center Complex addition.

The Commission then approved preliminary site and building plans for the parking garage/utility vault that would provide parking for patients, visitors, and employees at the Clinical Center Complex and electricity to power increased demand following expansion.

Before adjourning, Commissioners provided feedback to the General Services Administration on security plan modifications for a public gathering area on parking lot 9 at the Department of Agriculture’s headquarters on the National Mall (image above). The lot, which hosts a seasonal farmer’s market, will be incorporated into a previously approved building-wide security plan.