Section 11-U510. MATTER-OF-RIGHT USES (MU-USE GROUP D)

510.1The following uses shall be permitted in MU-Use Group D as a matter–of-right subject to any applicable conditions: 

 

(a) Any use permitted as a matter of right in any R, RF, or RA zone and any use permitted as a matter of right for MU-Use Group A;

(b) Agricultural, both residential and large;

(c) Arts design and creation, including an artist live-work studio;

(d) Art gallery and museum;

(e) College or university uses, except that a use that would otherwise not be permitted as a matter of right but for the university or college shall not be permitted;

(f) Daytime care uses for no more than five (5) persons, not including resident supervisors or staff and their families, except a child development home or an expanded child development home shall be permitted as an accessory use incidental to the uses permitted in MU-Use Group D; provided:

(1) The dwelling unit in which the use is located shall be the principal residence of the caregiver; and

(2) The use otherwise shall meet the definition of a home occupation;

(g) Eating and drinking establishment uses, except for:

(1) A drive-through or drive-in operation and a food delivery service shall not be permitted;

(2) A prepared food shop in Square 5912 shall have no limitation on seats; and

(3) A fast food establishment shall not be permitted in the MU-3 zone except for a fast food establishment with no drive-through shall be permitted in Square 5912, Square 3499 (Lot 3), and Square 3664 (Lot 820) as a matter of right;

(h) Emergency shelter for not more than four (4) persons, not including resident supervisors or staff and their families;

(i) Entertainment, assembly, and performing arts uses shall be permitted as a matter of right, except for a bowling alley;

(j) Gasoline service station with a valid certificate of occupancy that has not been replaced by another use with a valid certificate of occupancy;

(k) Gasoline service station as an accessory use to a parking garage or public storage garage; provided:

(1) All portions of the gasoline service station shall be located entirely within the garage;

(2) No part of the accessory use shall be visible from a sidewalk; and

(3) Signs or displays indicating the existence of the accessory use shall not be visible from the outside of the garage;

(l) Group instruction center or studio;

(m) Institutional uses, general, and religious;

(n) Local government uses except a Driver’s License Road Test Facility;

(o) Lodging;

(p) Marine;

(q) Medical care facilities, including hospice care;

(r) Office uses, including chanceries;

(s) Optical transmission node;

(t) Parking garage, which may include a car wash and interior detailing, as a permitted accessory use within the permitted parking garage;

(u) Parks and recreation;

(v) Retail, except for large format retail;

(w) Service uses, both financial and general subject to the following limitations: 

(1) The uses do not involve installation of automobile accessories; and

(2) A laundry or dry cleaning facility shall not exceed twenty-five hundred square feet (2,500 sq. ft.) of gross floor area; and

(3) A indoor storage facility not exceeding twenty-five hundred square feet (2,500 sq. ft.) of gross floor area; and

(x) Other accessory uses customarily incidental and subordinate to the uses permitted by this section.

 

 

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, 3338 (March 4, 2016 – Part 2); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 63 DCR 10932 (August 26, 2016); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 64 DCR 22 (January 6, 2017); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 64 DCR 7259 (July 28, 2017).