Click on the link to read the entire Washington Business Journal post.
Note the specific pop-up issue in Lanier Heights does not apply to Bloomingdale.
Bloomingdale does not have R-5-A/B zoning that could potentially be downzoned to R-4.
Of general interest.
Apr 13, 2015, 5:42pm EDT UPDATED: Apr 13, 2015, 6:00pm EDT
Michael Neibauer
Staff Reporter- Washington Business Journal
The fight over rowhome pop-ups in one District neighborhood has landed in the lap of the Zoning Commission.
Homeowners in the Lanier Heights community, joined by their advisory neighborhood commission, have filed papers with the zoning panel to formally rezone more than 175 lots in their community, putting a permanent end to pop-ups and large-scale condo conversions.
The application comes two weeks after the Zoning Commission took its first action to downzone only D.C.'s R-4 districts, in response to the pop-up furor. A second vote is necessary before final adoption.
Filed by Denis Suski of Lanier Place NW, the Lanier Heights application covers 10.34 acres of land currently zoned R-5-B, a designation that allows for moderate residential development with a height limit of 50 feet and no cap on the number of units. Suski proposes a new zoning of R-4, where, under the Zoning Commission's soon-to-be-adopted policy, homes would be limited to 35 feet and, generally, no more than three units.
...
No comments:
Post a Comment