1009

1009.1

In the NMU-4/CC1 zone, the following design requirements shall apply to a new building or addition on any lot fronting onto Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Livingston Street, N.W., McKinley Street, N.W., or Northampton Street, N.W.:

(a) No part of the building, including the penthouse or rooftop structure, shall project above a plane drawn at a forty-five degree (45°) angle from a line located twenty-five feet (25 ft). directly above a rear property line that abuts an alley, or zone boundary line with an R or RF zone;

(b) A set back of not less than three feet (3 ft). shall be provided from the building façade along Connecticut Avenue, N.W. for:

(1) Any portion of a building or structure above the third story; or

(2) Any portion of a building or structure above a retained building façade pursuant to Subtitle H § 1009.1;

(c) Buildings shall be designed and built so that not less than seventy-five percent (75%) of the street wall at the street level shall be constructed to the property line abutting the street right-of-way, not including permitted projections into public space;

(d) Buildings shall be designed so as not to preclude an entrance every forty feet (40 ft). on average for the linear frontage of the building;

(e) Not less than fifty percent (50%) of the surface area of the street wall at the ground level of each building shall be devoted to display windows having clear or clear/low emissivity glass and to entrances to commercial uses or to the building;

(f) Security grilles shall have no less than seventy percent (70%) transparency;

(g) Not more than fifty percent (50%) of the front façade of each building above the ground level, or for a building which is retaining an existing façade, above the façade to be retained, may be devoted to windows or glazing of any type;

(h) The ground floor level of each new building or building addition shall have a minimum clear floor-to-ceiling height of fourteen feet (14 ft).;

(i) A building which provides a ground floor level clear floor-to-ceiling height of eighteen feet (18 ft). or more shall be permitted an additional five feet (5 ft). of building height over that permitted in the zone;

(j) Each space devoted to a designated use with frontage on Connecticut Avenue, N.W. shall have an individual public entrance directly at grade with the public sidewalk along Connecticut Avenue, N.W.;

(k) On a corner lot that fronts onto both Connecticut Avenue, N.W. and a side street, any entrance to residential portions of the building shall be located on the side street;

(l) Vehicle parking, loading and trash collection shall be accessed from the alley where an alley of exists. Trash and recycling rooms shall be located internal to the building, and located at-grade level of the building; and

(m) Vehicle parking spaces shall be located below or at grade. If at grade, no portion of the parking shall be within twenty feet (20 ft). of the Connecticut Avenue right of way and shall be screened along Connecticut Avenue with designated uses.

1009.2 The requirements of Subtitle H §§ 1009.2(c) through (i) shall not apply to a building preserving a front façade pursuant to Subtitle H § 1009.2.

SOURCE: Final Rulemaking published at 72 DCR 007328 (June 27, 2025).