Section 11-H700. PURPOSE AND INTENT

700.1   The purposes of the Eighth Street Southeast Neighborhood Mixed-Use zone (NC-6) are to:

(a) Encourage and allow new neighborhood-serving retail and service businesses and office development in close proximity to the Navy Yard, with emphasis on firms that will conduct business with the Navy, as well as neighborhood-serving retail and service businesses;

(b) Allow and encourage mixed-use development at a medium density, in the interest of securing economic development, while restricting building heights to a low level density to respect the historic scale of buildings and the entrance to the adjacent Navy Yard; and

(c) Provide for safe and efficient pedestrian movement by reducing conflicts between pedestrian and vehicular traffic, so as to improve access to retail.

700.2   The NC-6 zone shall be mapped to a compact geographic area along Eighth Street, S.E., near the entrance to the Navy Yard, comprising those non-residentially zoned properties in Squares 906, 907, 929, and 930.

700.3   The designated use area shall include any lot that fronts on Eighth Street, L Street, M Street, or Potomac Avenue, S.E. in the NC-6 zone.

700.4   The designated roadways shall be Eighth Street, M Street, and Potomac Avenue, S.E. and other businesses in the area.

 

 

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, 2987 (March 4, 2016 – Part 2).