Section 11-C702. EXEMPTIONS FROM MINIMUM PARKING REQUIREMENTS

702.1 Within any zone other than an R or RF zone, the minimum vehicle parking requirement identified in the table of Subtitle C § 701.5 shall be reduced by fifty percent (50%) for any site which is located:

(a) Within one-half mile (0.5 mi.) of a Metrorail station that is currently in operation or is one for which a construction contract has been awarded; or

(b) Within one-quarter mile (0.25 mi.) of streetcar line that is currently in operation or for which a construction contract has been awarded; or

(c) Within one-quarter mile (.25 mi.) of one (1) of the following Priority Corridor Network Metrobus Routes located entirely or partially within the District of Columbia, provided that the property is on a street on which participation in a District Residential Parking Permit program is not permitted, or is otherwise exempted from a District Residential Parking Permit program:

1)  Georgia Avenue/7th Street (Routes 70, 79);

2) Wisconsin Avenue/Pennsylvania Avenue (Routes 31, 32, 34, 36, 37, 39);

3) Sixteenth Street (Routes S1, S2, S4, S9);

4) H Street/Benning Road (Routes X1, X2, X3, X9);

5) U Street/Garfield (Routes 90, 92, 93);

6) Anacostia/Congress Heights (Routes A2, A4, A5, A6, A7, A8, A9, A 42, A46, A48);

7) Fourteenth Street (Routes 52, 53, 54);

8) North Capitol Street (Route 80); and

9) Rhode Island Avenue (Route G8).

702.2 Any applicant claiming a reduction in required parking in accordance with Subtitle C § 702.1 shall provide evidence to the Zoning Administrator that meets at least one (1) of the locational requirements of Subtitle C §§ 702.1(a), (b), or (c).

702.3 Vehicle parking shall not be required:

(a) For a detached single dwelling unit, a semi-detached single dwelling unit, an attached single dwelling unit, rowhouse, or flat within the R and RF zones, if the lot does not have access to an open, improved, and public alley with a right of way of ten feet (10 ft.) width minimum;

(b) Within the D zones, except:

(1) Parking requirements applicable to a disposition lot as defined in the Urban Renewal Plan for the Downtown Urban Renewal Area shall be as specified in that plan; and

(2) Within the D-5 zone west of 20th Street N.W., parking shall be required in accordance with Subtitle C §§ 701.5 and 702.1;

(c) Within the SEFC or USN zones;

(d) On any property within the CG zones that has frontage on or is located east of South Capitol Street;

(e) Within the MU-11 zone; or

(f) For structures erected on Kingman and Heritage Islands, for which the construction of parking spaces shall be prohibited except for handicap spaces.

 

 

authority

§ 1 of the Zoning Act of 1938, approved June 20, 1938 (52 Stat. 797, as amended; D.C. Official Code § 6-641.01 (2012 Repl.)).

source

Final Rulemaking published at 63 DCR 2447, 2712 (March 4, 2016 – Part 2); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 64 DCR 6110 (June 30, 2017).