The interim head of the beleaguered Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs ousted the city’s zoning administrator, a man once called the most powerful man in the D.C. government that no one had ever heard of.

Zoning Administrator Bill Crews is the second high-ranking official to leave the District’s licensing and permitting agency since Mayor Adrian Fenty called the DCRA one of the city’s worst performing agencies, comparing the problems to that of the schools, but without the children.