Popped: D.C. Zoning Commission votes to limit pop-ups in certain residential neighborhoods. http://wamu.fm/19EmWxg
6:58 AM - 31 Mar 2015
2) Click on the link below to read the entire Washington Post article by Ian Shapira:
D.C. Zoning Commission votes to reduce maximum height of pop-ups
The D.C. Zoning Commission took its first action on Monday night against developers building the city’s growing number of pop-up homes, voting to reduce the maximum by-right height of single-family rowhouses to 35 feet, down from 40, in some of the city’s gentrifying neighborhoods like Capitol Hill, Shaw and Columbia Heights.
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The Zoning Commission’s decision is not final. But its vote Monday night gives residents and developers who have been anxiously following the pop-up debate an initial look at the likely set of rules that could govern one of the city’s most controversial building practices. Later this spring, the Zoning Commission will take a second, final vote after a legally required advisory review by the federal National Capital Planning Commission.
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During Monday night’s meeting, the commission voted 3 to 2 in favor of the by-right 35-foot height cap, but also allowed residents or developers to pursue a special exception if they want a 40-foot tall building.
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Developers won’t be allowed to build rear additions that pop back and extend 10 feet past the rear wall of any adjacent rowhouse...
3 comments:
Thanks for that DCRA about 3 weeks to late. T
So this makes really no sense to me.... you can't build a building taller than 35 feet without getting a special exception and you can't bump out more than 10ft past the neighboring houses....but you can have 4 units. So what is that about? You could have a basement unit, a ground floor unit, a second story unit and then what? a garage or alley unit? T
The 900 square feet of lot coverage still applies. Some of the other R-4 neighborhoods have some really big lots.
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