Section 11-1100. GENERAL PROVISIONS

 

1100.1This chapter establishes a Hotel-Residential Incentive (HR) Overlay District that is applied to selected geographic areas within and on the immediate periphery of the Central Employment Area.

 

1100.2The purpose of the HR Overlay District is to encourage construction of hotels and apartment houses in these areas to further elements of the District of Columbia's development plans, including goals in employment, population, transportation, housing, public facilities, and environmental quality.

 

1100.3The incentive for hotel development is intended to encourage development of an adequate number of hotels within a convenient distance of the Washington Convention Center to enable the Center to function in an optimum fashion, including an adequate quantity of visitor accommodations to serve the Center and a compatible mixture of uses within the general areas.

 

1100.4The incentive for apartment house development is intended to further the land use and other objectives of the Downtown Urban Renewal Plan and other public policy objectives in the area where the HR Overlay District is applied.

 

1100.5This chapter authorizes hotels and apartment houses to be constructed at greater building heights and densities than other buildings and uses permitted in the underlying zone districts.

 

authority

Unless otherwise noted, the authority for this chapter is the Zoning Act of 1938, approved June 20, 1938 (52 Stat. 797, as amended; D.C. Code, 2001 Ed. §§ 6-641.01 to 6-641.15 (formerly codified at D.C. Code §§ 5-413 to 5-432 (1994 Repl. & 1999 Supp.))).

source

Final Rulemaking published at 28 DCR 1336 (March 27, 1981); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 47 DCR 9741-43 (December 8, 2000), incorporating by reference the text of Proposed Rulemaking published at 47 DCR 8335, 8438 (October 20, 2000).