The Eighth Street Southeast Neighborhood Mixed-Use NC-6 Zone is located in along 8th Street, L Street, M Street, and Potomac Avenue, S.E. near the entrance to the Navy Yard on non-residentially zoned lots.
The purposes of the Eighth Street Southeast Neighborhood Mixed-Use zone (NC-6) are to:
- Encourage and allow new neighborhood-serving retail and service businesses and office development in close proximity to the Navy Yard, with emphasis on firms that will conduct business with the Navy, as well as neighborhood-serving retail and service businesses;
- Allow and encourage mixed-use development at a medium density, in the interest of securing economic development, while restricting building heights to a low level density to respect the historic scale of buildings and the entrance to the adjacent Navy Yard; and
- Provide for safe and efficient pedestrian movement by reducing conflicts between pedestrian and vehicular traffic, so as to improve access to retail.
| Development Standards | ||||||||
| Floor Area Ratio (maximum)1 | Height (feet) | Penthouse Height (feet)/Stories2 | Lot Occupancy (percentage) |
Rear Setback (feet) | Side Setback (feet) | Green Area Ratio | Zoning Regulation Reference | |
| NC-6 | 3.0 | 45 | 12 1 (story) |
75% (residential) | 12 (min.) | None required; if provided it shall be at least 2 in. wide for each 1 ft. of height of building but no less than 5 ft.3 | 0.25 | Subtitle H, Chapter 7 |
| 100% (non-residential) | 8 ft. for a single-family detached or semi-detached dwelling | |||||||
| Use Permissions | Courts | Parking | Inclusionary Zoning |
| Subtitle H, Chapter 11 | Subtitle H § 407 | Subtitle C, Chapter 7/8 | Subtitle C, Chapter 10 |
1Except as prohibited on the roof of a detached dwelling, semi-detached dwelling, rowhouse, or flat in Subtitle C § 1500.4.