Commercial adjuncts to a hotel containing less than one hundred (100) rooms or suites shall be permitted as special exceptions in an R-5 District if approved by the Board of Zoning Adjustment under § 3104, subject to the provisions of this section.
The total area within the hotel devoted to function rooms, exhibit space, and commercial adjuncts shall not be increased.
There shall be no direct entrance to the adjunct from the outside of the building.
No part of the adjunct or the entrance to the adjunct shall be visible from a sidewalk.
No sign or display indicating the existence of the adjunct shall be visible from the outside of the building.
The hotel shall be of sufficient size and character so that the financial support of the requested adjunct may be expected to be furnished entirely or substantially by the hotel guests.
D.C. Mun. Regs. tit. 11, r. 11-356