D.C. Mun. Regs. tit. 11, r. 11-U512

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

Rule 11-U512 - MATTER-OF-RIGHT USES (MU-USE GROUP E)

512.1 The following uses shall be permitted in the MU-Use Group E as a matter of right subject to any applicable conditions:

(a) Uses permitted as a matter of right in any R, RF, and RA zones, and all uses permitted as a matter of right for MU-Use Group D of this chapter, unless otherwise required as a special exception in Subtitle U § 513 or not permitted by Subtitle U § 514;

(b) An animal boarding use located in a basement or cellar space subject to the following:

(1) The use shall not be located within twenty-five feet (25 ft.) of a lot within an R, RF, or RA zone. The twenty-five feet (25 ft.) shall be measured to include any space on the lot or within the building not used by the animal boarding use and any portion of a street or alley that separates the use from a lot within an R, RF, or RA zone. Shared facilities not under the sole control of the animal boarding use, such as hallways and trash rooms, shall not be considered as part of the animal boarding use;

(2) There shall be no residential use on the same floor as the use or on the floor immediately above the animal boarding use;

(3) Windows and doors of the space devoted to the animal boarding use shall be kept closed and all doors facing a residential use shall not be solid core;

(4) No animals shall be permitted in an external yard on the premises;

(5) Animal waste shall be placed in a closed waste disposal container and shall be collected by a licensed waste disposal company at least weekly;

(6) Odors shall be controlled by means of an air filtration or an equivalently effective odor control system; and

(7) Floor finish materials and wall finish materials measured a minimum of forty-eight inches (48 in.) from the floor shall be impervious and washable;

(c) Automobile, truck, boat, or marine sales;

(d) College or university uses, except that in the MU-4 zone, a use that would otherwise not be permitted as a matter of right but for the university or college shall not be permitted;

(e) Eating and drinking establishment uses, subject to the following conditions:

(1) A fast food establishment or food delivery service shall not be permitted within the MU-4, MU-17, MU-24, MU-25, MU-26, or MU-27 zones; and

(2) A fast food establishment or food delivery service in all other MU-Use Group E zones, subject to.

(f) Education uses, private;

(g) Entertainment, assembly, and performing arts uses, except that a bowling alley shall be subject to the following conditions:

(1) The use shall not be within twenty-five feet (25 ft.) of a residentially zoned property unless separated by a street or alley; and

(2) Soundproofing to the extent deemed necessary for the protection of adjoining and nearby property shall be required;

(h) Firearms retail sales establishments, except that no portion of the establishment shall be located within three hundred feet (300 ft.) of:

(1) Any R, RF, RA, MU-1 or MU-2 zone; or

(2) A place of worship, public or private school, public library, or playground;

(i) Gasoline service station as an accessory use to a parking garage or public storage garage; provided:

(1) All portions of the gasoline service station shall be located entirely within the garage;

(2) No part of the accessory use shall be visible from a sidewalk;

(3) Signs or displays indicating the existence of the accessory use shall not be visible from the outside of the garage; and

(4) The use shall not be permitted in the MU-4, MU-17, MU-25, and MU-27 zones;

(j) Optical transmission node;

(k) Retail uses, except for large format retail; provided that the off-premises beer and wine sales accessory use in the grocery store located in Square 2572, Lot 36, may continue, provided that it shall not occupy more than two thousand seventy-eight square feet (2,078 sq. ft.) of the store's gross floor area;

(l) Service (general) uses subject to the following conditions:

(1) A laundry or dry cleaning facility shall not exceed twenty-five hundred square feet (2,500 sq. ft.) of gross floor area; and

(2) In the MU-4, MU-17, MU-25, and MU-27 zones, uses involving the installation of automobile accessories shall not be permitted; and

(m) Veterinary office or veterinary hospital, which may also include the incidental boarding of animals as necessary for convalescence, pet grooming, and the sale of pet supplies, but not as an independent line of business; and

(n) Accessory uses customarily incidental and subordinate to the uses permitted by this section.

D.C. Mun. Regs. tit. 11, r. 11-U512

Final Rulemaking published at 63 DCR 2447 (9/6/2016); amended by Final Rulemaking published at 63 DCR 10932 (9/6/2016); amended by Final Rulemaking published at 64 DCR 000022 (1/6/2017); 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 67 DCR 11964 (10/16/2020); amended by Final Rulemaking published at 68 DCR 2485 (3/5/2021)