Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
Servicing
- Applies near
- Potomac River
- Geographic extent
- Alexandria waterfront
Uses
Permitted by right3
- Public buildings
- Public parks, playgrounds, athletic fields or other outdoor recreation facilities
- Retail and/or service commercial when accessory to a permitted use (max 10% of land area)
Conditional / special use10
- Restaurant (administrative)
- Outdoor dining on private property (administrative)
- Outdoor market (administrative)
- Any use with live entertainment
- Bike rental
- Commercial outdoor recreation facilities
- Facilities used for docking or berthing of boats or ships, including marinas and boat clubs
- Outdoor market (other than administrative)
- Outdoor dining on private property (other than administrative)
- Privately owned public use buildings such as civic auditoriums or performing arts centers
Prohibited1
Extracted standards
2 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Underground utilities
All developments containing new or replacement utility facilities within the development shall provide for underground installation of said facilities.
- Open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. walkway and bikeway
In addition, each use, development or project shall provide an open space walkway and bikeway adjacent to the high water mark of the Potomac River.
From the ordinance
The purpose of the WPR zone is to enhance the vitality of the Alexandria waterfront by providing for parks, open spaces and recreational opportunities linked by a continuous pedestrian promenade.