Section 11-1701. AREA-WIDE DESIGN STANDARDS (DD)

 

1701.1The floor area ratio credit for open arcades as provided in § 2515 is not applicable in the DD Overlay District.

 

1701.2Any open arcade in the DD Overlay District shall extend the length of an entire block frontage, or shall connect with an open arcade in an abutting building in such fashion as to provide a continuous walkway.

 

1701.3Not less than seventy-five percent (75%) of each streetwall of new construction to a height of not less than fifteen feet (15 ft.) shall be constructed to, or within four feet (4 ft.) of, the property line between the subject lot and each abutting street right-of-way.

 

1701.4Along the following street frontages, the provisions of § 2117.8(c)(1) are modified so as to prohibit the construction or use of a driveway providing access from the adjacent public street to required parking spaces or loading berths on the subject lot:

 

(a)F Street, N.W., from 7th to 15th Streets;

 

(b)G Street, N.W., from 7th to 15th Streets;

 

(c)10th Street, N.W., from E to F Streets;

 

(d)7th Street, N.W., from Pennsylvania Avenue to Mount Vernon Square;

 

(e)H Street, N.W., from 5th to 8th Streets;

 

(f)Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., from 6th to 15th Streets; and

 

(g)Indiana Avenue, N.W., from 6th to 7th Streets.

 

1701.5Along the street frontages listed in § 1701.4, and those listed in paragraph (c) of this subsection, not less than fifty percent (50%) of the surface area of any streetwall at the ground floor level of each building shall be devoted to display windows and to entrances to commercial uses or to the building; provided:

 

(a)The windows shall use clear or low emissivity glass, except for decorative or architectural accent;

 

(b)Entrances to the building, excluding vehicular entrances, shall be separated by not more than fifty feet (50 ft.) on average for the linear frontage of the building; and

 

(c)The additional applicable street frontages shall be E Street, N.W., from 6th to 14th Streets; 10th through 13th Streets, N.W., from E to H Streets; 9th Street, N.W., from E to I Streets; 14th and 15th Streets, N.W., from Pennsylvania Avenue to New York Avenue; I Street, N.W., from 5th to 7th Streets; and 8th Street, from Pennsylvania Avenue to Mount Vernon Square.

 

1701.6The requirements of §§ 1701.1 through 1701.5 shall not apply to a department store, theater, hotel, apartment house, or church or other place of worship.

 

1701.7Except in the underlying R-5-B, R-5-E, C-2-A, and C-3-A Districts, the maximum permitted building height shall be that permitted by the Act to Regulate the Height of Buildings in the District of Columbia, approved June 1, 1910 (36 Stat. 452, as amended; D.C. Official Code §§ 6-601.01 to 6.601.09 (2001) (formerly codified at D.C. Code §§ 5-401 to 5-409 (1994 Repl. and 1999 Supp.))), provided, that a building that fronts on Massachusetts Avenue or on Mount Vernon Square shall be designed and built so that no part of the building shall project above a plane drawn at a forty-five degree (45°) angle from a line located one hundred ten feet (110 ft.) above the property line abutting Massachusetts Avenue or Mount Vernon Square.

 

authority

The Zoning Commission for the District of Columbia (the “Commission”), pursuant to its authority under §§ 1, 3, and 8 of the Zoning Act of 1938, approved June 20, 1938 (52 Stat. 797, 798, and 799; D.C. Official Code §§ 6-641.01, 6-641.03, and 6-641.07).

source

Final Rulemaking published at 38 DCR 612, 615 (January 18, 1991); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 39 DCR 8305, 8309 (November 13, 1992); and Final Rulemaking published at 47 DCR 9741-43 (December 8, 2000), incorporating by reference the text of Proposed Rulemaking published at 47 DCR 8335, 8472-73 (October 20, 2000); as corrected by Errata Notice published at 58 DCR 4314, 4315 (May 20, 2011).