Zoning

The co-owner of Station House, a 378-unit apartment building at 701 Second St. NE, faced scrutiny in 2018 for the misbehavior — to say the least — of short-term corporate renters.

The rising popularity of accessory dwelling units can be seen all across DC.

A recent building permit appeal in DC may have wider implications for whether solar arrays on residential rooftops are protected.

The development would transform a 1.5-acre site into residences, hotel rooms, offices, and retail

A D.C. court has rejected an activist group's appeal of Foulger-Pratt's $200 million planned development near Union Market.

As UrbanTurf reported earlier this year, the DC area is facing a housing shortage that will necessitate production of over 25,000 additional housing units annually. Now, it is about to get harder to build multi-family properties in some…

Earlier this year, WMATA applied to rezone the site of its downtown DC headquarters as it began planning to relocate. Now, that map amendment has been approved opening the possibility for mixed-use development on the site.

At the D.C. Council's Committee of the Whole meeting on Tuesday, Ward 1 Councilmember Brianne Nadeau introduced a bill that would give advisory neighborhood commissioners—the neighborhood-level elected officials who weigh in on development…

After months of conversations and negotiations with the Office of Planning, community stakeholders and dissenting neighbors, the development team behind The Bard development in Southwest DC is returning with a proposal even smaller than the…

The D.C. Zoning Commission will consider making changes to the city’s zoning code next week to permit short-term rentals through home-sharing platforms like Airbnb and VRBO, a move prompted by a letter from the D.C. Council urging they do…

The District’s zoning commission moved ahead quickly Wednesday to review a unanimous plea from the D.C. Council to permit short-term rentals in residential neighborhoods and thus smooth the way for planned legislation to regulate…

Most conventional debates over gentrification in DC position the process as one that replaces long-time black residents with newer, wealthier white residents. Given the context, this framing makes sense: DC has a well-established black…