CDD-30
Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
Servicing
- Applies near
- Potomac River
- Geographic extent
- Potomac River Generating Station area
Uses
Permitted by right59
- active recreational uses
- animal care facility
- any use with live entertainment
- arts and cultural anchors and tenants
- business and professional office
- child care home
- church
- congregate recreational facility
- continuum of care facility
- day care center
- dwelling; multi-unit
- dwelling, townhouse
- dwelling, co-living
- elder care home
- food or beverage production exceeding 5,000 sq. ft., which includes a retail component
- fraternal or private club
- health and athletic club or fitness studio
- health profession office
- helistop
- hospice
- hospital
- hotel
- interim surface parking lots for non-construction uses on undeveloped blocks
- light assembly, service, and crafts
- medical care facility
- medical laboratory
- nursing or convalescent home or hospice
- outdoor dining
- outdoor market
- passive recreational use
- personal service establishment
- public park
- private school, academic
- private school, commercial
- public building
- public school
- radio or television broadcasting office and studio
- recreation and entertainment use
- restaurant
- retail shopping establishment
- social service use
- valet parking
- veterinary/animal hospital
- health and athletic club or fitness studio
- church
- day care center
- health profession office
- medical laboratory
- outdoor dining located on private property
- personal service establishment
- private school, commercial
- public school
- radio or television broadcasting office and studio
- recreation and entertainment use, indoor
- restaurant
- retail shopping establishment, up to 20,000 gross square feet
- social service use
- any use with live entertainment
- retail shopping establishment, larger than 20,000 gross square feet
Extracted standards
7 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- Additional heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. for mechanical penthouses and solar structures20 ft
Additional height for mechanical penthouses, solar photovoltaic structures and horizontally adjacent structures for common amenity spaces is permitted up to 20 feet above maximum building height unless increased by Special Use Permit.
- Heights per Old Town North Small Area Plan
The minimum and maximum heights shall conform to the heights in the Old Town North Small Area Plan as amended.
Other
- Maximum floor area2,150,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Maximum floor area: 2.15 million sq. ft. of gross floor area (GFA), excluding floors below-grade and limited areas under projected building massing.
- Minimum sitewide non-residential floor area20 pct
Minimum sitewide non-residential uses: 20% of total GFA.
- Minimum open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. per development block containing residential uses15 pct
Open Space: minimum 15% per development block containing residential uses and a minimum 5 acres of publicly accessible open space adjacent to the Mount Vernon Trail and the Old Town North Linear Park.
- Minimum publicly accessible open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. adjacent to Mount Vernon Trail5 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
a minimum 5 acres of publicly accessible open space adjacent to the Mount Vernon Trail and the Old Town North Linear Park.
- Minimum yards
Minimum yards: None. The supplemental yard and setback regulations of section 7-1000 do not apply.
From the ordinance
UT regulations shall apply. Maximum floor area: 2.15 million sq. ft. of gross floor area (GFA), excluding floors below-grade and limited areas under projected building massing. Minimum sitewide non-residential uses: 20% of total GFA. Open Space: minimum 15% per development block containing residential uses and a minimum 5 acres of publicly accessible open space adjacent to the Mount Vernon Trail and the Old Town North Linear Park.
Use details
{
"dropped_conditions": {
"permitted_uses": [
"outdoor dining other than pursuant to 5-602(E)(5)"
]
}
}