Section 11-1300. PREAMBLE (NC)

 

1300.1The Neighborhood Commercial (NC) Overlay District is established to preserve and enhance neighborhood shopping areas, by providing the scale of development and range of uses that are appropriate for neighborhood shopping and services.

 

1300.2The NC Overlay District includes a number of individual overlay zone districts that may be established and mapped from time to time, consistent with the general provisions of this chapter.

 

1300.3The purposes of the NC Overlay District are to:

 

(a)Encourage a scale of development, a mixture of building uses, and other attributes, such as safe and efficient conditions for pedestrian and vehicular movement, all of which will be as generally required by the Comprehensive Plan;

 

(b)Encourage retention and establishment of a variety of retail, entertainment, and personal service establishments, predominantly in a continuous pattern at ground level, so as to meet the needs of the surrounding area's residents, workers, and visitors; and

 

(c)Limit the maximum permitted height of new buildings so as to encourage a general compatibility in scale between new and older buildings.

 

1300.4The provisions of this chapter that apply to the discrete NC Overlay Districts shall reflect the character, scale, and needs of the particular district.

 

authority

The Zoning Commission for the District of Columbia (the “Commission”), pursuant to its authority under §§ 1 and 3 of the Zoning Act of 1938, approved June 20, 1938 (52 Stat. 797, 799; D.C. Official Code §§ 6-641.01 and 6-641.0).

source

Final Rulemaking published at 36 DCR 7616 (November 3, 1989); 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, 8443 (October 20, 2000); as corrected by Errata Notice published at 58 DCR 4314 (May 20, 2011).