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limits included parking require
ments.
The new draft combines these
two districts into a single "cen-
trail business district" and puts
all new buildings maximum floor
space at seven times the lot area.
II above ground parking is pro-
vided within the buildings, how
ever, the maximum floor space
may 60 up to nine times the lot
area.
3. on street parking facilities
are required for all new build
ings, but some of the initial
Lewis requirements are cut.
All buildings in the new "cen-
trail business district" require
one parking space for each 600
square feet of building space.
This is the same as the initial
requirement for large Office
buildings. But it cut in half
parking requirements initially
proposed for the old retail
shopping" area.
Requirements for retail stores
outside the downtown area are
reduced from one space for each
rs square feet Of building floor
area to one for each 125 square
feet.
4. Minimum lot sizes for sin
gle-family detached homes are
reduced.
1nitially the consultant pro-
posed that some residential
areas require minimum lot sizes
Of 10000 square feet, with 100
foot lot fronts. The new report
eliminates this and requires
minimum lots of 1900 square
feet with 75-foot fronts in some
areas and Of 5000 square feet
with 50-foot fronts in others.
5. More city land is zoned
to permit manufacturing and
industrial development.
Initia1ly the consultant set
aside virtually no areas for in
dustry "a major source Of
criticism.
The current report establishes
two new manufacturing" coming
classifications-one for Tight
manufacturing" and one for
general industry" Areas zoned
for general industry" include
Buzzard's Point, the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad tracks near
Riggs road NE, Union Station
railroad yards and along the
Anacostia River north Of the
Naval Gun Factory.
Performance Standards
Major control over this devel-
opment are sets of performance
standards" which regulate max
imum noise, smoke, odor. dust,
vibration and other possible nui-
sances.
6. No limit is placed on the
maximum number Of stories in
buildings.
Such limits were proposed
earlier. Maximum building
height permitted by the new re-
port is 100 feet, with elevator
and utility penthouse structures
permitted up to $50 feet.
z. There are drastic changes
in Mr.. Lewis controversial "tran-
sition" coming districts. Mr.. Lew
is has scrapped his original three
transition" coming classical
tons. and substituted for them
two new types of special pur-
pose" areas.
He also has reduced such areas
In size throughout the city from
more than 900 acres to about 70.
One large special purpose" zone
surrounds the central business
district, and Is designed to en-
courage commuter and other
parking facilities. Elsewhere in
the city. the small zones are
designed to serve as buffer"
areas between commercial and
residential development, an d
tightly restrict new building.
"SP-1 Zone" Requirements
No multi-family residences can
be built in the smaller "SP-1"
zones, and no new retail struc-
lures can be built in either Of the
Tsp" zoned areas.
8. In a special "row house.
conversion" coming district CR-
q, row houses could be converted
to apartments provided lots are
large enough. But no conversions
to rooming or boarding houses
would be permitted. as Mr.. Lewis
first had proposed.
The final report also would
consider only the height and
floor area Of q building in de-