Zoning Commission

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

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.

Last month, UrbanTurf reported on the two-building planned-unit development (PUD) proposed for a site in Brookland. Now, the zoning application has been filed and more details and renderings are emerging.

Last week, the DC Council sent a letter to the Zoning Commission asking the body to amend the zoning code to permit short-term rentals in residential zones in DC. On Monday night, at a brief special public meeting, the Commission voted to…

For the past year, Adrienne Lifton has been renting her Deanwood house on Airbnb, earning enough to pay the taxes and maintenance on property that has been in her family for three generations — while providing accommodations in a part of…

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…

This past April, the Zoning Commission approved a planned-unit development (PUD) which would develop six acres of land straddling Howard Road SE between I-295 and South Capitol Street SE (map) with five buildings, delivering roughly 692…

Three years ago, Valor Development gave the Spring Valley and American University Park neighborhoods a glimpse of a proposed development which would replace the shopping center that previously hosted a Superfresh grocery store at 4330 48th…

Another planned-unit development in DC bites the dust. Last month, the development team behind the PUD intended to replace the Rhode Island Avenue Shopping Center (map) requested that the Zoning Commission "extinguish" the approved plans…

The planned sale of Metro’s hulking downtown headquarters could be a game-changer for Penn Quarter. As the agency’s rezoning request for the property heads to a public hearing in two weeks, residents and officials have started imagining…

Nearly six months ago, UrbanTurf reported on the plans filed for a mixed-use redevelopment of Tenleytown's former Dancing Crab restaurant. Now, we are getting a more detailed look at the project.