Section 10-B2399. DEFINITIONS

 

2399.1When used in this chapter. the following terms and phrases shall have the meaning ascribed:

 

Board of Zoning Adjustment (BZA) - established in the 1938 Zoning Act to resolve minor disputes over the interpretation of the Zoning Ordinance.

 

District - the District of Columbia.

 

District Element - a title of the plan adopted by the District of Columbia Comprehensive Plan Act of 1984.

 

Large Tract - any project comprising three (3) acres or more and any commercial or mixed-use commercial development of fifty thousand (50,000) or more gross floor area (above grade) and cellar area (below grade).

 

Mixed-Use Commercial - office and retail uses as well as service establishment.

 

Office of Planning - established by Mayor's Order No. 83-25, effective January 3, 1983 (30 DCR 334).

 

Redevelopment Land Agency - established in 1944 by Congress to implement urban renewal plans.

 

Subdivision - established by Mayor's Order No. 67-651a, revised May 16, 1967, in which the 1938 regulations for the District of Columbia read as follows: subdivision is the division or assembly of land into one or more lots of record.

 

Zoning Regulations - rules which control and restrict the heights, bulk, number or stories and size of buildings and other structures, the open spaces around them, the density of population within them, and the uses of buildings, structures and land in the District of Columbia, and for the purposes dividing the District of Columbia into zoning districts.

 

source

Final Rulemaking published at 33 DCR 7701, 7708 (December 12, 1986).