Section 23-306. EAST DUPONT CIRCLE MORATORIUM ZONE

 

306.1A limit shall exist on the number of Retailer’s licenses issued in the area that extends approximately six hundred (600) feet in all directions from the intersection of 17th and Q Streets, N.W., Washington, D.C., as follows: Class CT or Class DT – Two and (2); Class CN or DN – Zero (0). This area shall be known as the East Dupont Circle Moratorium Zone.

 

306.2  The East Dupont Circle Moratorium Zone is more specifically described as the area bounded by a line beginning at New Hampshire Avenue and S Street, N.W.; continuing east on S Street, N.W., to 17th Street, N.W.; continuing south on 17th Street, N.W., to Riggs Place, N.W.; continuing east on Riggs Place, N.W., to 16th Street, N.W.; continuing south on 16th Street, N.W., to P Street, N.W.; continuing west on P Street, N.W., to 18th Street, N.W.; continuing north on 18th Street, N.W., to New Hampshire Avenue, N.W.; and continuing northeast on New Hampshire Avenue, N.W. to S Street, N.W.

 

306.3  All hotels, whether present or future, shall be exempt from the East Dupont Circle Moratorium Zone.

 

306.4  Nothing in this section shall prohibit the Board from approving the transfer of ownership of a CT or DT located within the East Dupont Circle Moratorium Zone, subject to the requirements of the Act and this title.

 

306.5  Nothing in this section shall prohibit the Board from approving the transfer of a license from a location within the East Dupont Circle Moratorium Zone to a new location within the East Dupont Circle Moratorium Zone.

 

306.6  A license holder outside the East Dupont Circle Moratorium Zone shall not be permitted to transfer its license to a location within the East Dupont Circle Moratorium Zone unless the transfer will not exceed the number of licenses permitted in the East Dupont Circle Moratorium Zone for that particular class or type, as set forth in Section 306.1.

 

306.7  Subject to the limitation set forth in Subsection 306.8, nothing in this section shall prohibit the filing of a license application or a valid protest of any transfer or change of license class.

 

306.8   No licensee in the East Dupont Circle Moratorium Zone shall be permitted to request a change of license class to CT, DT, CN, or DN.

 

306.9 This section shall expire three (3) years after the date of publication of the notice of final rulemaking.

 

 

authority

Title 25, D.C. Code Enactment and Related Amendments Act of 2001, effective May 3, 2001 (D.C. Law 13-298; D.C. Official Code § 25-351(a) (2012 Repl.)), and Section 303 of Title 23 of the District of Columbia Municipal Regulations.

source

Final Rulemaking published at 41 DCR 1296 (March 11, 1994); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 47 DCR 282 (January 21, 2000); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 51 DCR 4309 (April 30, 2004); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 53 DCR 2191 (March 24, 2006); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 55 DCR 12991 (December 26, 2008); as amended by Emergency Rulemaking published at 57 DCR 4638-4639 (May 28, 2010)[EXPIRED]; as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 57 DCR 8681-8682 (September 24, 2010); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 61 DCR 8736 (August 22, 2014).