D.C. Mun. Regs. tit. 11, r. 11-U510

Current through Register Vol. 71, No. 50, December 13, 2024

Rule 11-U510 - MATTER-OF-RIGHT USES (MU- USE GROUP D)

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

(a) Any use permitted as a matter of right in any R, RF, or RA zone and any use permitted as a matter of right for MU-Use Group A;

(b) Agricultural, both residential and large;

(c) Arts design and creation, including an artist live-work studio;

(d) Art gallery and museum;

(e) College or university uses, except that a use that would otherwise not be permitted as a matter of right but for the university or college shall not be permitted;

(f) Daytime care uses;

(g) Eating and drinking establishments uses, subject to the following conditions:

(1) A drive-through or drive-in operation and a food delivery service shall not be permitted; and

(2) A fast food establishment shall not be permitted as a matter-of-right in the MU-3 zone except that fast food establishments with no drive-through shall be permitted in Square 5912, Square 3499 (Lot 3), and Square 3664 (Lot 820) as a matter of right;

(h) Emergency shelter for not more than four (4) persons, not including resident supervisors or staff and their families;

(i) Entertainment, assembly, and performing arts uses shall be permitted as a matter of right, except for a bowling alley;

(j) Gasoline service station with a valid certificate of occupancy that has not been replaced by another use with a valid certificate of occupancy;

(k) 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; and

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

(l) Group instruction center or studio;

(m) Institutional uses, general, and religious;

(n) Local government uses except a Driver's License Road Test Facility;

(o) Lodging;

(p) Marine;

(q) Medical care facilities, including hospice care;

(r) Office uses, including chanceries;

(s) Optical transmission node;

(t) Parking garage, which may include a car wash and interior detailing, as a permitted accessory use within the permitted parking garage;

(u) Parks and recreation;

(v) Pet grooming establishment;

(w) Retail, except for large format retail;

(x) Service uses, both financial and general subject to the following limitations:

(1) The uses do not involve installation of automobile accessories;

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

(3) An indoor storage facility not exceeding twenty- five hundred square feet (2,500 sq. ft.) of gross floor area; and

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

(z) 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 within a radius of five hundred feet (500 ft.) from any portion of the subject property.

D.C. Mun. Regs. tit. 11, r. 11-U510

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); amended by Final Rulemaking published at 69 DCR 12886 (10/21/2022)