Dimensional standards
Lot
Density
Height & bulk
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
- Three-family
- by_right
- Four-plus family
- by_right
Servicing
- Applies near
- Potomac River
- Geographic extent
- Waterfront area along the Potomac River
Uses
Permitted by right17
- single-unit dwelling
- two-unit dwelling
- townhouse dwelling
- multi-unit dwelling
- auxiliary dwelling
- business and professional office
- church
- personal service establishment
- private school, commercial
- public building
- public park, athletic field or other outdoor recreation facility
- public utility service yard and/or electrical receiving or transforming station
- retail shopping establishment, 10,000 square feet or less
- accessory uses
- uses smaller than 5,000 square feet that foster art, history and cultural awareness
- day care center
- health and athletic club or fitness studio
Conditional / special use15
- co-living dwelling
- outdoor dining on private property
- outdoor market
- restaurant
- valet parking
- any use with live entertainment
- continuum of care facility
- commercial outdoor recreation facility
- commercial shipping and freight terminal
- facilities used for docking or berthing of boats or ships
- hotel
- privately owned public use building
- retail shopping establishment
- utilities
- uses 5,000 square feet or larger that foster art, history and cultural awareness
Extracted standards
13 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Design
All windows shall remain transparent.
Other
- Auxiliary dwelling location
Auxiliary dwellings are allowed behind a first floor commercial use, if the depth of the building is more than 50 feet measured from the front building wall and the building is setback no further than 30 feet from front property line.
- Day careDay careSupervised care for children or adults during part of the day. pick-up/drop-off plan
A day care center shall submit for the director's review a pick-up and drop-off plan that adequately ensures the safe transfer of children and creates minimal impact on pedestrian and vehicular traffic.
- Enclosed operations
All operations, including storage, shall be conducted within a completely enclosed building with the exception of outdoor uses pursuant to this section 5-500 and City Code section 5-2-29, as applicable.
- Ground floor occupancy restriction
No room or space used for residential purposes or commercial purposes, other than restaurant or retail room or space, shall be permitted on the ground floor of any building.
- Rear yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. ratio
Each residential use shall provide a rear yard based on a 1:1 setback ratio and a minimum of eight feet.
- Side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. ratio
Single and two-unit dwellings shall provide two side yards, each based on a setback ratio of 1:3 and a minimum of eight feet.
- Tobacco retail distance from schools1,000 ft
Retail shopping establishments with a principal use selling tobacco products, nicotine vapor products, alternative nicotine products, or hemp products intended for smoking are prohibited on property within 1,000 linear feet of a child day care center, or a public or private academic early childhood, elementary, middle, or high school.
- TownhouseTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot. minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built.1,452 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Each townhouse dwelling shall be located on a lot with a minimum of 1,452 square feet of land area.
- Two-unit minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built. per unit2,500 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
In the case of a two-unit dwelling, the lot shall contain 2,500 square feet of land area for each dwelling unit.
- Underground utilities required
All developments containing new or replacement utility facilities within the development shall provide for underground installation of said facilities.
- Waterfront walkway/bikeway
each use, development or project adjacent to the Potomac River shall provide an open space walkway and bike way adjacent to the high watermark of the Potomac River.
Parking
- Co-living parking requirement
each such co-living dwelling shall provide the parking required under section 8-200(A)(22)
From the ordinance
The W-1 zone is intended to promote mixed use development with suitable public amenities along appropriate portions of the city's waterfront...