Section 11-K509. USE REQUIREMENTS FOR DESIGNATED STREETS (CG)

509.1 Preferred use requirements shall apply only to the following designated streets:

(a) M Street, S.E. or S.W.;

(b) Half Street, S.E.; and

(c) First Street, S.W.

509.2 Preferred uses of this section shall include uses within the following use categories:

(a) Animal sales, care, and boarding;

(b) Arts, design, and creation;

(c) Eating and drinking establishments;

(d) Entertainment, assembly, and performing arts;

(e) Retail; and

(f) Service, general or financial.

509.3 Any new building or structure with frontage on the streets identified in Subtitle K § 509.1 shall:

(a) Devote not less than 0.5 FAR of the ground floor gross floor area to one (1) or more of the designated use categories;

(b) Devote no more than twenty-five percent (25%) of the ground floor gross floor area retail requirement to service, general or financial uses;

(c) Devote one hundred percent (100%) of the building's street frontage along the designated street to required uses except for space devoted to building entrances or required for fire control; and 

(d) For good cause shown, the Zoning Commission may authorize interim occupancy of the preferred use space required by this subsection by a non-preferred use for up to five (5) years; provided that:

(1) The ground floor space is suitably designed for future occupancy by the preferred use space; and

(2) The ground floor area is designed to fully meet the applicable design regulations of Subtitle K § 510.

 

 

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, 3176 (March 4, 2016 – Part 2).