D.C. Mun. Regs. tit. 11, r. 11-U401

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Current through Register Vol. 71, No. 49, December 6, 2024

Rule 11-U401 - MATTER-OF-RIGHT USES (RA)

401.1

The following uses shall be permitted as a matter of right subject to any applicable conditions for each use below:

(a) Any use permitted in the RF zones under Subtitle U § 301, except corner stores;

(b) Private clubs with sleeping accommodations;

(c) Child Development Center;

(d) Except for the RA-1 zones:

(1) Multiple dwellings provided that in an apartment house, accommodations may be provided only to residents who stay at the premises a minimum of one (1) month;

(2) Hotel in existence as of May 16, 1980, with a valid certificate of occupancy or a valid application for a building permit; provided, that the gross floor area of the hotel may not be increased and the total area within the hotel devoted to function rooms, exhibit space, and commercial adjuncts may not be increased. An existing hotel may be repaired, renovated, remodeled, or structurally altered; and

(3) A continuing care retirement community;

(e) Community Residence Facility for not more than six (6) persons not including resident supervisors or staff and their families. The facility may accommodate seven (7) to fifteen (15) persons, not including resident supervisors or staff and their families; provided there shall be no property containing an existing community residence facility for e i g h t (8) or more persons within a radius of five hundred feet (500 ft.) from any portion of the subject property;

(1) No part of any use is nearer than seventy feet (70 ft.) to the nearest residential structure;

(2) The uses shall not be organized for profit;

(3) All parking areas shall be shared by all uses on a lot;

(4) Scoreboards shall be installed such that the highest point is no taller than twenty- five feet (25 ft.) above grade; and

(5) Any lighting used to illuminate a park, playground, athletic field, trail, or other outdoor space, shall be so arranged that all direct rays of lighting are confined to the boundaries of the lot;

(f) Recreation building, park, playground, swimming pool, athletic field, ice rink, or other similar athletic facility, public or private, operated on and using local or federal land and approved by a joint federal-local jurisdictional transfer agreement; subject to the following:

(1) No part of any use is nearer than seventy feet (70 ft.) to the nearest residential structure;

(2) The uses shall not be organized for profit;

(3) All parking areas shall be shared by all uses on a lot;

(4) Scoreboards shall be installed such that the highest point is no taller than twenty- five feet (25 ft.) above grade; and

(g) Elderly development center or adult day treatment facility provided, that the use shall be limited to no more than twenty-five (25) individuals not including staff; and

(h) Youth Residential Care Home for not more than six (6) persons not including resident supervisors or staff and their families. The facility may accommodate seven (7) to fifteen (15) persons, not including resident supervisors or staff and their families; provided, there shall be no property containing an existing youth residential care home for eight (8) within a radius of five hundred feet (500 ft.) from, any portion of the subject property.

401.2

A chancery is a permitted use in RA-4 and RA-5 zones, subject to disapproval by the Board of Zoning Adjustment in accordance with the requirements of Subtitle X, Chapter 2.

401.3

In the RA-2/RC zone, the uses of this section shall be permitted as a matter of right unless prohibited in Subtitle U § 514.3.

D.C. Mun. Regs. tit. 11, r. 11-U401

Final Rulemaking published at 63 DCR 2447 (9/6/2016); amended by Final Rulemaking published at 64 DCR 6110 (6/30/2017); amended by Final Rulemaking published at 64 DCR 7254 (7/28/2017); amended by Final Rulemaking published at 65 DCR 6596 (6/15/2018); amended by Final Rulemaking published at 69 DCR 12886 (10/21/2022); amended by Final Rulemaking published at 70 DCR 11297 (8/25/2023)