D.C. Mun. Regs. tit. 11, r. 11-C802
All residential uses with eight (8) or more dwelling units and non-residential uses with four thousand square feet (4,000 sq. ft.) or more of gross floor area shall provide bicycle parking spaces as follows:
TABLE C § 802.1: MINIMUM NUMBER OF BICYCLE PARKING SPACES
Use | Long-Term Spaces | Short-Term Spaces |
Agriculture, large | None | 2 spaces |
Agriculture, residential | None | None |
Animal sales, care and boarding | 1 space for each 10,000 sq. ft. | 1 space for each 10,000 sq. ft. |
Antennas | None | None |
Arts, design and creation | 1 space for each 10,000 sq. ft. | 1 space for each 20,000 sq. ft. |
Basic utilities | 1 space for each 20,000 sq. ft. | None |
Chancery | 1 space for each 5,000 sq. ft. | 1 space for each 40,000 sq. ft. |
Community-based institutional facility | 1 space for each 10,000 sq. ft. | 1 space for each 10,000 sq. ft. |
Daytime care | 1 space for each 10,000 sq. ft. | 1 space for each 10,000 sq. ft. |
Eating and drinking establishment | 1 for each 10,000 sq. ft. | 1 space for each 3,500 sq. ft. |
Education, college / university | 1 space for each 7,500 sq. ft. | 1 space for each 2,000 sq. ft. |
Education, private school | 1 space for each 7,500 sq. ft. | 1 space for each 2,000 sq. ft. |
Education, public | 1 space for each 7,500 sq. ft. | 1 space for each 2,000 sq. ft. |
Emergency shelter | 1 space for each 10,000 sq. ft. | 1 space for each 10,000 sq. ft. |
Entertainment, assembly, and performing arts | 1 space for each 10,000 sq. ft. | 1 space for each 10,000 sq. ft. |
Firearm sales | 1 space for each 10,000 sq. ft. | 1 space for each 3,500 sq. ft. |
Government, large-scale | 1 for each 7,500 sq. ft. | 1 space for each 40,000 sq. ft. but no less than 6 spaces |
Government, local | 1 for each 7,500 sq. ft. | 1 space for each 40,000 sq. ft. but no less than 6 spaces |
Medical care | 1 space for each 10,000 sq. ft. | 1 space for each 40,000 sq. ft. |
Institutional, general | 1 space for each 7,500 sq. ft. | 1 space for each 2,500 sq. ft. but no less than 8 spaces |
Institutional, religious | 1 space for each 7,500 sq. ft. | 1 space for each 2,500 sq. ft. but no less than 8 spaces |
Lodging | 1 space for each 10,000 sq. ft. | 1 space for each 40,000 sq. ft. |
Marine | None | 1 space for each 3,500 sq. ft. |
Medical care | 1 space for each 10,000 sq. ft. | 1 space for each 40,000 sq. ft. |
Motor vehicle-related | 1 space for each 20,000 sq. ft. | 1 space for each 10,000 sq. ft. |
Office | 1 for each 2,500 sq. ft. | 1 space for each 40,000 sq. ft. |
Parking | None | None |
Parks and recreation | None | 1 space for each 10,000 sq. ft. but no less than 6 spaces |
Production, distribution, & repair | 1 space for each 20,000 sq. ft. | None |
Residential, single dwelling unit Residential, flat | None | None |
Residential, multiple dwelling unit | 1 space for each 3 dwelling units | 1 space for each 20 dwelling units |
Retail | 1 for each 10,000 sq. ft. | 1 space for each 3,500 sq. ft. |
Service, general | 1 for each 10,000 sq. ft. | 1 space for each 3,500 sq. ft. |
Service, financial | 1 for each 10,000 sq. ft. | 1 space for each 3,500 sq. ft. |
Sexually-based business establishment | 1 for each 10,000 sq. ft. | 1 space for each 10,000 sq. ft. |
Transportation infrastructure | None | None |
Waste-related services | 1 space for each 20,000 sq. ft. | None |
After the first fifty (50) bicycle parking spaces are provided for a use, additional spaces are required at one-half (0.5) the ratio specified in Subtitle C § 802.1
Notwithstanding Subtitle C §§ 802.1 and 802.2, no property shall be required to provide more than one hundred (100) short-term bicycle parking spaces. All properties with a long-term bicycle parking requirement shall provide at least two (2) long-term spaces, and all properties with a short-term requirement shall provide at least two (2) short-term spaces. The bicycle parking standards of this chapter shall be met when a new building is constructed.
When a property changes use categories or adds a use category, the property shall add any bicycle parking spaces necessary to meet the requirements for the new use. However, historic resources shall not be required to provide additional bicycle parking spaces for a change in use when the gross floor area of the building is not expanded.
An addition to an existing building, or the expansion of a use within a building, triggers additional bicycle parking requirements only when the gross floor area of the building or use is expanded or enlarged by twenty-five percent (25%) or more beyond the gross floor area on the effective date of this title, or in the case of a new building, the gross floor area used to calculate the initial parking requirement. The additional minimum parking required shall be calculated based upon the entire gross floor area added.
Additions to historic resources shall be required to provide additional bicycle parking spaces only for the addition's gross floor area and only when the addition results in at least a fifty percent (50%) increase in gross floor area beyond the gross floor area existing on the effective date of this title.
Special exception relief from additional bicycle parking requirements for historic resources is provided for in Subtitle C § 807.
If a use operates solely outside of a building, any expansion of that use shall conform to the applicable bicycle parking standards.
Uses governed by a campus plan are subject to the bicycle parking requirements approved by the Zoning Commission and are not subject to the bicycle parking requirements otherwise applicable.
When there is more than one (1) use on a lot, the number of bicycle parking spaces provided must equal the total required for all uses. If a single use falls into more than one (1) use category for which different bicycle parking minimums apply, the standard that requires the greater number of bicycle parking spaces shall apply.
D.C. Mun. Regs. tit. 11, r. 11-C802