Dimensional standards
Lot
Density
Height & bulk
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
- Three-family
- by_right
- Four-plus family
- by_right
Servicing
- Applies near
- King Street Metro Station; Eisenhower Avenue
- Applies within
- 1,000 ft
- Geographic extent
- Special provisions for lots within 1,000 feet of King Street Metro Station and Eisenhower Avenue.
Uses
Permitted by right26
- Single-unit dwelling (except as limited by section 4-1103(Y.1))
- Two-unit dwelling (except as limited by section 4-1103(Y.1))
- Townhouse dwelling (except as limited by section 4-1103(A.1))
- Multi-unit dwelling (except as limited by section 4-1103(Y.1))
- Business and professional office
- Cemetery
- Church
- Day care center
- Health and athletic club or fitness studio
- Hospital
- Medical care facility
- Medical laboratory
- Health profession office
- Motor vehicle parking or storage for 20 vehicles or fewer
- Outdoor dining located on private property at a commercial complex
- Personal service establishment, on the same lot as office use
- Private school, commercial
- Public school
- Radio or television broadcasting office and studio
- Recreation and entertainment use, indoor
- Restaurant located within a commercial complex or hotel
- Retail shopping establishment, on the same lot as office use, up to 20,000 gross square feet
- Seminary, convent or monastery
- Social service use
- Utilities
- Accessory uses
Conditional / special use38
- Animal care facility with overnight accommodation (if in commercial complex)
- Catering operation in an industrial or flex space center
- Co-living dwelling (not to exceed two units)
- Light auto repair in an industrial or flex space center
- Outdoor garden center
- Outdoor market
- Outdoor dining on private property
- Restaurant
- Valet parking
- Any use with live entertainment
- Animal care facility with overnight accommodation (other than admin)
- Automobile service station
- Bus shelter on private property
- Co-living dwelling (other than admin)
- Congregate housing facility
- Continuum of care facility
- Day labor agency
- Drive through facility
- Food and beverage production exceeding 5,000 sq ft with retail
- Fraternal or private club
- Funeral home
- Homeless shelter
- Hotel
- Interstate bus station
- Light automobile repair
- Motor vehicle parking or storage for more than 20 vehicles
- Medical care facility
- Nursing or convalescent home or hospice
- Outdoor dining on private property (other than permitted)
- Outdoor market (other than admin)
- Outdoor garden center (other than admin)
- Private school, academic, with more than 20 students
- Public building
- Recreation and entertainment use, outdoor
- Retail shopping or personal service establishments on a lot without office buildings, if supporting office uses
- Retail shopping establishment, on the same lot as office use, larger than 20,000 gross square feet
- Single-unit, two-unit, townhouse and multi-unit dwellings on lots within 1,000 feet of Eisenhower Avenue centerline
- Wholesale business
Prohibited1
Extracted standards
10 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- HeightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. with special use permitConditional useAllowed only after a discretionary approval — usually a public hearing and a board vote.150 ft
The maximum permitted height of a building is 100 feet, provided that additional height up to a maximum of 150 feet may be approved with a special use permit.
Other
- Continuum of care FARFloor area ratio (FAR)Total floor area divided by lot area — an FAR of 2.0 permits 20,000 sq ft of floor on a 10,000 sq ft lot.1.25 ratio
The maximum permitted floor area ratio is 1.25 and a maximum of 50 percent of the floor space of the proposed development may be residential use. If a special use permit is approved, a maximum of 70 percent of the floor space of the proposed development may be residential use.
- Continuum of care open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted.25 pct
Continuum of care facilities shall provide a minimum of 25 percent of land area as open and usable space.
- All operations enclosed
All operations, including storage, shall be conducted within a completely enclosed building with the exception of outdoor uses pursuant to this section 4-1100 and City Code section 5-2-29, as applicable.
- Nonresidential FARFloor area ratio (FAR)Total floor area divided by lot area — an FAR of 2.0 permits 20,000 sq ft of floor on a 10,000 sq ft lot. near King Street Metro3 ratio
The maximum permitted floor area ratio is 3.0 for a lot of record existing on June 24, 1992 that contains less than 15,000 square feet all or a portion of which is within 1,000 feet of the King Street Metro Station.
- Nonresidential FARFloor area ratio (FAR)Total floor area divided by lot area — an FAR of 2.0 permits 20,000 sq ft of floor on a 10,000 sq ft lot. with SUP3 ratio
The maximum permitted floor area ratio may be increased to an amount not to exceed 3.0 with a special use permit.
- Residential FARFloor area ratio (FAR)Total floor area divided by lot area — an FAR of 2.0 permits 20,000 sq ft of floor on a 10,000 sq ft lot. in Old Town/Parker-Gray1.5 ratio
For single-unit, two-unit, and townhouse dwellings within the Old and Historic Alexandria and Parker-Gray Districts only, the maximum permitted floor area ratio is 1.50 not to exceed a maximum of 30 dwelling units for each acre.
- Residential FARFloor area ratio (FAR)Total floor area divided by lot area — an FAR of 2.0 permits 20,000 sq ft of floor on a 10,000 sq ft lot. near Metrorail2 ratio
For residential uses located within 1,000 feet of a metrorail station the maximum permitted floor area ratio is 2.0, except that the maximum floor area ratio may be increased to an amount not to exceed 3.0 with a special use permit.
- Tobacco retail prohibition near schools1,000 ft
Retail shopping establishments with a principal use selling tobacco products... are prohibited on property within 1,000 linear feet of a child day care center, or a public or private academic early childhood, elementary, middle, or high school.
- Window visibility
The placement or construction of items that block the visibility through windows of the interior of the commercial space from the street and sidewalk... shall be prohibited. All windows shall remain transparent.
From the ordinance
The maximum permitted height of a building is 100 feet, provided that additional height up to a maximum of 150 feet may be approved with a special use permit.