Where can I put a retail uses in Washington, D.C.?

“retail uses” matches 5 uses this ordinance names separately. We do not choose between them — they can have different answers, so every one is shown.

NMU zone designated uses (animal sales/care/boarding, arts/design/creation, eating/drinking, entertainment/performing arts, financial/general services, retail)
Retail and general service as accessory use to apartment house or hotel
Retail uses
Retail uses (excluding large format retail use)
Retail uses, except for a large format retail use

NMU zone designated uses (animal sales/care/boarding, arts/design/creation, eating/drinking, entertainment/performing arts, financial/general services, retail)

Allowed by right in 20 districts

District	Properties loaded	Code	What says so
NMU-3A/MW the ordinance paragraph quoted here	23	Allowed	Subtitle H §6001 6001 DESIGNATED AND RESTRICTED USES [… quote continues in the ordinance; our stored extract stops here]
NMU-4/CC1 the ordinance paragraph quoted here	33	Allowed	Subtitle H §6001 6001 DESIGNATED AND RESTRICTED USES [… quote continues in the ordinance; our stored extract stops here]
NMU-4/CC2 the ordinance paragraph quoted here	1	Allowed	Subtitle H §6001 6001 DESIGNATED AND RESTRICTED USES [… quote continues in the ordinance; our stored extract stops here]
NMU-4/CP the ordinance paragraph quoted here	59	Allowed	Subtitle H §6001 6001 DESIGNATED AND RESTRICTED USES [… quote continues in the ordinance; our stored extract stops here]
NMU-4/GA the ordinance paragraph quoted here	96	Allowed	Subtitle H §6001 6001 DESIGNATED AND RESTRICTED USES [… quote continues in the ordinance; our stored extract stops here]
NMU-4/H-A the ordinance paragraph quoted here	94	Allowed	Subtitle H §6001 6001 DESIGNATED AND RESTRICTED USES [… quote continues in the ordinance; our stored extract stops here]
NMU-4/H-H the ordinance paragraph quoted here	36	Allowed	Subtitle H §6001 6001 DESIGNATED AND RESTRICTED USES [… quote continues in the ordinance; our stored extract stops here]
NMU-4/H-R the ordinance paragraph quoted here	62	Allowed	Subtitle H §6001 6001 DESIGNATED AND RESTRICTED USES [… quote continues in the ordinance; our stored extract stops here]
NMU-4/TK the ordinance paragraph quoted here	33	Allowed	Subtitle H §6001 6001 DESIGNATED AND RESTRICTED USES [… quote continues in the ordinance; our stored extract stops here]
NMU-4/WP the ordinance paragraph quoted here	10	Allowed	Subtitle H §6001 6001 DESIGNATED AND RESTRICTED USES [… quote continues in the ordinance; our stored extract stops here]
NMU-5A/H-H the ordinance paragraph quoted here	16	Allowed	Subtitle H §6001 6001 DESIGNATED AND RESTRICTED USES [… quote continues in the ordinance; our stored extract stops here]
NMU-5A/H-R the ordinance paragraph quoted here	13	Allowed	Subtitle H §6001 6001 DESIGNATED AND RESTRICTED USES [… quote continues in the ordinance; our stored extract stops here]
NMU-5A/PAE the ordinance paragraph quoted here	33	Allowed	Subtitle H §6001 6001 DESIGNATED AND RESTRICTED USES [… quote continues in the ordinance; our stored extract stops here]
NMU-5A/WP the ordinance paragraph quoted here	23	Allowed	Subtitle H §6001 6001 DESIGNATED AND RESTRICTED USES [… quote continues in the ordinance; our stored extract stops here]
NMU-6B/H-H the ordinance paragraph quoted here	2	Allowed	Subtitle H §6001 6001 DESIGNATED AND RESTRICTED USES [… quote continues in the ordinance; our stored extract stops here]
NMU-7B/ES the ordinance paragraph quoted here	31	Allowed	Subtitle H §6001 6001 DESIGNATED AND RESTRICTED USES [… quote continues in the ordinance; our stored extract stops here]
NMU-7B/GA the ordinance paragraph quoted here	129	Allowed	Subtitle H §6001 6001 DESIGNATED AND RESTRICTED USES [… quote continues in the ordinance; our stored extract stops here]
NMU-7B/H-A the ordinance paragraph quoted here	29	Allowed	Subtitle H §6001 6001 DESIGNATED AND RESTRICTED USES [… quote continues in the ordinance; our stored extract stops here]
NMU-7B/H-H the ordinance paragraph quoted here	1	Allowed	Subtitle H §6001 6001 DESIGNATED AND RESTRICTED USES [… quote continues in the ordinance; our stored extract stops here]
NMU-8B/H-H the ordinance paragraph quoted here	1	Allowed	Subtitle H §6001 6001 DESIGNATED AND RESTRICTED USES [… quote continues in the ordinance; our stored extract stops here]

Retail and general service as accessory use to apartment house or hotel

Allowed by right in 4 districts

District	Properties loaded	Code	What says so
MU-1 the ordinance paragraph quoted here	1	Allowed	Subtitle U §503.1 503.1 Retail and general service uses shall be permitted as accessory uses and appropriate adjuncts to an apartment house or hotel, subject to the following conditions: (a) The uses shall be oriented for the service and convenience of the tenants or guests of the building; (b) There shall be no direct entrance to the commercial establishment from the outside of the building; (c) There shall be no direct entrance to the commercial establishment from the outside of the building; and City of Washington, D.C. \| Title 11 - Zoning SUBTITLE U, CHAPTER 5-2 (d) No sign or display indicating the existence of the adjunct shall be visible from the outside of the building.
MU-1/DC the ordinance paragraph quoted here	176	Allowed	Subtitle U §503.1 503.1 Retail and general service uses shall be permitted as accessory uses and appropriate adjuncts to an apartment house or hotel, subject to the following conditions: (a) The uses shall be oriented for the service and convenience of the tenants or guests of the building; (b) There shall be no direct entrance to the commercial establishment from the outside of the building; (c) There shall be no direct entrance to the commercial establishment from the outside of the building; and City of Washington, D.C. \| Title 11 - Zoning SUBTITLE U, CHAPTER 5-2 (d) No sign or display indicating the existence of the adjunct shall be visible from the outside of the building.
MU-2 the ordinance paragraph quoted here	99	Allowed	Subtitle U §503.1 503.1 Retail and general service uses shall be permitted as accessory uses and appropriate adjuncts to an apartment house or hotel, subject to the following conditions: (a) The uses shall be oriented for the service and convenience of the tenants or guests of the building; (b) There shall be no direct entrance to the commercial establishment from the outside of the building; (c) There shall be no direct entrance to the commercial establishment from the outside of the building; and City of Washington, D.C. \| Title 11 - Zoning SUBTITLE U, CHAPTER 5-2 (d) No sign or display indicating the existence of the adjunct shall be visible from the outside of the building.
MU-2/DC the ordinance paragraph quoted here	39	Allowed	Subtitle U §503.1 503.1 Retail and general service uses shall be permitted as accessory uses and appropriate adjuncts to an apartment house or hotel, subject to the following conditions: (a) The uses shall be oriented for the service and convenience of the tenants or guests of the building; (b) There shall be no direct entrance to the commercial establishment from the outside of the building; (c) There shall be no direct entrance to the commercial establishment from the outside of the building; and City of Washington, D.C. \| Title 11 - Zoning SUBTITLE U, CHAPTER 5-2 (d) No sign or display indicating the existence of the adjunct shall be visible from the outside of the building.

Retail uses

Allowed by right in 7 districts

District	Properties loaded	Code	What says so
PDR-1 the ordinance paragraph quoted here	935	Allowed	Subtitle U §801.1(x) Retail uses, except large format retail; City of Washington, D.C. \| Title 11 - Zoning SUBTITLE U, CHAPTER 8-4 (y) Self-storage establishment uses shall be permitted provided they meet the following: (1) Devote to any use permitted by this section except for Parking, Transportation Infrastructure, Utility, Waste-related service or Wholesale or storage establishment: (A) Not less than fifty percent (50%) of the ground floor area; (B) One hundred percent (100%) of the building's street frontage along a public street to a minimum depth of thirty feet (30 ft.) from the front facade, with the exception of space devoted to building entrances or required for fire control, office associated with the self-storage establishment use, or required by the District of Columbia Building or Fire Codes (Titles 12A and 12H DCMR); and (2) Design the ground floor with: (A) A minimum clear floor-to-ceiling height of fourteen feet (14 ft.), measured from the finished grade; and (B) Not less than seventy-five percent (75%) of the surface area of the street wall associated with the preferred uses required by this paragraph at the ground floor to windows, which shall include: (i) Clear/low emissivity glass allowing transparency to a depth of twenty feet (20 ft.) into the preferred ground level space, with bottom sills no more than four feet (4 ft.) above the adjacent sidewalk grade; and (ii) Views from within the building to the street and from the street into the building; (z) Service uses are permitted as a matter of right, provided that if the use offers massage services, the use shall either: (1) Be a licensed massage establishment under the provisions of D.C. Official Code § 47-2811; or (2) Only offer massage services provided by massage therapists with a professional license issued pursuant to Title 17 DCMR; (aa) Transportation infrastructure; (bb) Utilities (basic) uses are permitted as a matter-of–right; however, if the use is an electronic equipment facility that exceeds twenty-five percent (25%) of the gross floor area of a building located on site: City of Washington, D.C. \| Title 11 - Zoning SUBTITLE U, CHAPTER 8-5 (1) The building shall not be located within eight hundred feet (800 ft.) of an established or planned Metrorail station; and (2) The building shall not be located within one thousand two hundred fifty feet (1,250 ft.) of the edge of a river as measured at mean high tide; (cc) Waste-related service uses, including for conversion to energy subject to the Standards of External Effects in Subtitle U § 804, and the use shall not be permitted on any lot located in whole or in part within one hundred feet (100 ft.) of a residential zone; (dd) Wholesale or storage establishment, including open storage, except a junk yard. SOURCE: Final Rulemaking & Order No. 08-06A published at 63 DCR 2447 (March 4, 2016 – Part 2); Final Rulemaking & Order No. 08-06E published at 63 DCR 10932 (August 26, 2016); Final Rulemaking & Order No. 19-04 published at 66 DCR 12137 (September 13, 2019); Final Rulemaking & Order No. 20-03 published at 67 DCR 14506 (December 11, 2020); Final Rulemaking & Order No. 19-31 published at 69 DCR 12886 (October 21, 2022); Final Rulemaking & Order No. 18-16/19-27-19-27B published at 70 DCR 11297 (August 25, 2023).
PDR-1/CAP the ordinance paragraph quoted here	16	Allowed	Subtitle U §801.1(x) Retail uses, except large format retail; City of Washington, D.C. \| Title 11 - Zoning SUBTITLE U, CHAPTER 8-4 (y) Self-storage establishment uses shall be permitted provided they meet the following: (1) Devote to any use permitted by this section except for Parking, Transportation Infrastructure, Utility, Waste-related service or Wholesale or storage establishment: (A) Not less than fifty percent (50%) of the ground floor area; (B) One hundred percent (100%) of the building's street frontage along a public street to a minimum depth of thirty feet (30 ft.) from the front facade, with the exception of space devoted to building entrances or required for fire control, office associated with the self-storage establishment use, or required by the District of Columbia Building or Fire Codes (Titles 12A and 12H DCMR); and (2) Design the ground floor with: (A) A minimum clear floor-to-ceiling height of fourteen feet (14 ft.), measured from the finished grade; and (B) Not less than seventy-five percent (75%) of the surface area of the street wall associated with the preferred uses required by this paragraph at the ground floor to windows, which shall include: (i) Clear/low emissivity glass allowing transparency to a depth of twenty feet (20 ft.) into the preferred ground level space, with bottom sills no more than four feet (4 ft.) above the adjacent sidewalk grade; and (ii) Views from within the building to the street and from the street into the building; (z) Service uses are permitted as a matter of right, provided that if the use offers massage services, the use shall either: (1) Be a licensed massage establishment under the provisions of D.C. Official Code § 47-2811; or (2) Only offer massage services provided by massage therapists with a professional license issued pursuant to Title 17 DCMR; (aa) Transportation infrastructure; (bb) Utilities (basic) uses are permitted as a matter-of–right; however, if the use is an electronic equipment facility that exceeds twenty-five percent (25%) of the gross floor area of a building located on site: City of Washington, D.C. \| Title 11 - Zoning SUBTITLE U, CHAPTER 8-5 (1) The building shall not be located within eight hundred feet (800 ft.) of an established or planned Metrorail station; and (2) The building shall not be located within one thousand two hundred fifty feet (1,250 ft.) of the edge of a river as measured at mean high tide; (cc) Waste-related service uses, including for conversion to energy subject to the Standards of External Effects in Subtitle U § 804, and the use shall not be permitted on any lot located in whole or in part within one hundred feet (100 ft.) of a residential zone; (dd) Wholesale or storage establishment, including open storage, except a junk yard. SOURCE: Final Rulemaking & Order No. 08-06A published at 63 DCR 2447 (March 4, 2016 – Part 2); Final Rulemaking & Order No. 08-06E published at 63 DCR 10932 (August 26, 2016); Final Rulemaking & Order No. 19-04 published at 66 DCR 12137 (September 13, 2019); Final Rulemaking & Order No. 20-03 published at 67 DCR 14506 (December 11, 2020); Final Rulemaking & Order No. 19-31 published at 69 DCR 12886 (October 21, 2022); Final Rulemaking & Order No. 18-16/19-27-19-27B published at 70 DCR 11297 (August 25, 2023).
PDR-1/FT the ordinance paragraph quoted here	19	Allowed	Subtitle U §801.1(x) Retail uses, except large format retail; City of Washington, D.C. \| Title 11 - Zoning SUBTITLE U, CHAPTER 8-4 (y) Self-storage establishment uses shall be permitted provided they meet the following: (1) Devote to any use permitted by this section except for Parking, Transportation Infrastructure, Utility, Waste-related service or Wholesale or storage establishment: (A) Not less than fifty percent (50%) of the ground floor area; (B) One hundred percent (100%) of the building's street frontage along a public street to a minimum depth of thirty feet (30 ft.) from the front facade, with the exception of space devoted to building entrances or required for fire control, office associated with the self-storage establishment use, or required by the District of Columbia Building or Fire Codes (Titles 12A and 12H DCMR); and (2) Design the ground floor with: (A) A minimum clear floor-to-ceiling height of fourteen feet (14 ft.), measured from the finished grade; and (B) Not less than seventy-five percent (75%) of the surface area of the street wall associated with the preferred uses required by this paragraph at the ground floor to windows, which shall include: (i) Clear/low emissivity glass allowing transparency to a depth of twenty feet (20 ft.) into the preferred ground level space, with bottom sills no more than four feet (4 ft.) above the adjacent sidewalk grade; and (ii) Views from within the building to the street and from the street into the building; (z) Service uses are permitted as a matter of right, provided that if the use offers massage services, the use shall either: (1) Be a licensed massage establishment under the provisions of D.C. Official Code § 47-2811; or (2) Only offer massage services provided by massage therapists with a professional license issued pursuant to Title 17 DCMR; (aa) Transportation infrastructure; (bb) Utilities (basic) uses are permitted as a matter-of–right; however, if the use is an electronic equipment facility that exceeds twenty-five percent (25%) of the gross floor area of a building located on site: City of Washington, D.C. \| Title 11 - Zoning SUBTITLE U, CHAPTER 8-5 (1) The building shall not be located within eight hundred feet (800 ft.) of an established or planned Metrorail station; and (2) The building shall not be located within one thousand two hundred fifty feet (1,250 ft.) of the edge of a river as measured at mean high tide; (cc) Waste-related service uses, including for conversion to energy subject to the Standards of External Effects in Subtitle U § 804, and the use shall not be permitted on any lot located in whole or in part within one hundred feet (100 ft.) of a residential zone; (dd) Wholesale or storage establishment, including open storage, except a junk yard. SOURCE: Final Rulemaking & Order No. 08-06A published at 63 DCR 2447 (March 4, 2016 – Part 2); Final Rulemaking & Order No. 08-06E published at 63 DCR 10932 (August 26, 2016); Final Rulemaking & Order No. 19-04 published at 66 DCR 12137 (September 13, 2019); Final Rulemaking & Order No. 20-03 published at 67 DCR 14506 (December 11, 2020); Final Rulemaking & Order No. 19-31 published at 69 DCR 12886 (October 21, 2022); Final Rulemaking & Order No. 18-16/19-27-19-27B published at 70 DCR 11297 (August 25, 2023).
PDR-2 the ordinance paragraph quoted here	154	Allowed	Subtitle U §801.1(x) Retail uses, except large format retail; City of Washington, D.C. \| Title 11 - Zoning SUBTITLE U, CHAPTER 8-4 (y) Self-storage establishment uses shall be permitted provided they meet the following: (1) Devote to any use permitted by this section except for Parking, Transportation Infrastructure, Utility, Waste-related service or Wholesale or storage establishment: (A) Not less than fifty percent (50%) of the ground floor area; (B) One hundred percent (100%) of the building's street frontage along a public street to a minimum depth of thirty feet (30 ft.) from the front facade, with the exception of space devoted to building entrances or required for fire control, office associated with the self-storage establishment use, or required by the District of Columbia Building or Fire Codes (Titles 12A and 12H DCMR); and (2) Design the ground floor with: (A) A minimum clear floor-to-ceiling height of fourteen feet (14 ft.), measured from the finished grade; and (B) Not less than seventy-five percent (75%) of the surface area of the street wall associated with the preferred uses required by this paragraph at the ground floor to windows, which shall include: (i) Clear/low emissivity glass allowing transparency to a depth of twenty feet (20 ft.) into the preferred ground level space, with bottom sills no more than four feet (4 ft.) above the adjacent sidewalk grade; and (ii) Views from within the building to the street and from the street into the building; (z) Service uses are permitted as a matter of right, provided that if the use offers massage services, the use shall either: (1) Be a licensed massage establishment under the provisions of D.C. Official Code § 47-2811; or (2) Only offer massage services provided by massage therapists with a professional license issued pursuant to Title 17 DCMR; (aa) Transportation infrastructure; (bb) Utilities (basic) uses are permitted as a matter-of–right; however, if the use is an electronic equipment facility that exceeds twenty-five percent (25%) of the gross floor area of a building located on site: City of Washington, D.C. \| Title 11 - Zoning SUBTITLE U, CHAPTER 8-5 (1) The building shall not be located within eight hundred feet (800 ft.) of an established or planned Metrorail station; and (2) The building shall not be located within one thousand two hundred fifty feet (1,250 ft.) of the edge of a river as measured at mean high tide; (cc) Waste-related service uses, including for conversion to energy subject to the Standards of External Effects in Subtitle U § 804, and the use shall not be permitted on any lot located in whole or in part within one hundred feet (100 ft.) of a residential zone; (dd) Wholesale or storage establishment, including open storage, except a junk yard. SOURCE: Final Rulemaking & Order No. 08-06A published at 63 DCR 2447 (March 4, 2016 – Part 2); Final Rulemaking & Order No. 08-06E published at 63 DCR 10932 (August 26, 2016); Final Rulemaking & Order No. 19-04 published at 66 DCR 12137 (September 13, 2019); Final Rulemaking & Order No. 20-03 published at 67 DCR 14506 (December 11, 2020); Final Rulemaking & Order No. 19-31 published at 69 DCR 12886 (October 21, 2022); Final Rulemaking & Order No. 18-16/19-27-19-27B published at 70 DCR 11297 (August 25, 2023).
PDR-3 the ordinance paragraph quoted here	41	Allowed	Subtitle U §801.1(x) Retail uses, except large format retail; City of Washington, D.C. \| Title 11 - Zoning SUBTITLE U, CHAPTER 8-4 (y) Self-storage establishment uses shall be permitted provided they meet the following: (1) Devote to any use permitted by this section except for Parking, Transportation Infrastructure, Utility, Waste-related service or Wholesale or storage establishment: (A) Not less than fifty percent (50%) of the ground floor area; (B) One hundred percent (100%) of the building's street frontage along a public street to a minimum depth of thirty feet (30 ft.) from the front facade, with the exception of space devoted to building entrances or required for fire control, office associated with the self-storage establishment use, or required by the District of Columbia Building or Fire Codes (Titles 12A and 12H DCMR); and (2) Design the ground floor with: (A) A minimum clear floor-to-ceiling height of fourteen feet (14 ft.), measured from the finished grade; and (B) Not less than seventy-five percent (75%) of the surface area of the street wall associated with the preferred uses required by this paragraph at the ground floor to windows, which shall include: (i) Clear/low emissivity glass allowing transparency to a depth of twenty feet (20 ft.) into the preferred ground level space, with bottom sills no more than four feet (4 ft.) above the adjacent sidewalk grade; and (ii) Views from within the building to the street and from the street into the building; (z) Service uses are permitted as a matter of right, provided that if the use offers massage services, the use shall either: (1) Be a licensed massage establishment under the provisions of D.C. Official Code § 47-2811; or (2) Only offer massage services provided by massage therapists with a professional license issued pursuant to Title 17 DCMR; (aa) Transportation infrastructure; (bb) Utilities (basic) uses are permitted as a matter-of–right; however, if the use is an electronic equipment facility that exceeds twenty-five percent (25%) of the gross floor area of a building located on site: City of Washington, D.C. \| Title 11 - Zoning SUBTITLE U, CHAPTER 8-5 (1) The building shall not be located within eight hundred feet (800 ft.) of an established or planned Metrorail station; and (2) The building shall not be located within one thousand two hundred fifty feet (1,250 ft.) of the edge of a river as measured at mean high tide; (cc) Waste-related service uses, including for conversion to energy subject to the Standards of External Effects in Subtitle U § 804, and the use shall not be permitted on any lot located in whole or in part within one hundred feet (100 ft.) of a residential zone; (dd) Wholesale or storage establishment, including open storage, except a junk yard. SOURCE: Final Rulemaking & Order No. 08-06A published at 63 DCR 2447 (March 4, 2016 – Part 2); Final Rulemaking & Order No. 08-06E published at 63 DCR 10932 (August 26, 2016); Final Rulemaking & Order No. 19-04 published at 66 DCR 12137 (September 13, 2019); Final Rulemaking & Order No. 20-03 published at 67 DCR 14506 (December 11, 2020); Final Rulemaking & Order No. 19-31 published at 69 DCR 12886 (October 21, 2022); Final Rulemaking & Order No. 18-16/19-27-19-27B published at 70 DCR 11297 (August 25, 2023).
PDR-4 the ordinance paragraph quoted here	165	Allowed	Subtitle U §801.1(x) Retail uses, except large format retail; City of Washington, D.C. \| Title 11 - Zoning SUBTITLE U, CHAPTER 8-4 (y) Self-storage establishment uses shall be permitted provided they meet the following: (1) Devote to any use permitted by this section except for Parking, Transportation Infrastructure, Utility, Waste-related service or Wholesale or storage establishment: (A) Not less than fifty percent (50%) of the ground floor area; (B) One hundred percent (100%) of the building's street frontage along a public street to a minimum depth of thirty feet (30 ft.) from the front facade, with the exception of space devoted to building entrances or required for fire control, office associated with the self-storage establishment use, or required by the District of Columbia Building or Fire Codes (Titles 12A and 12H DCMR); and (2) Design the ground floor with: (A) A minimum clear floor-to-ceiling height of fourteen feet (14 ft.), measured from the finished grade; and (B) Not less than seventy-five percent (75%) of the surface area of the street wall associated with the preferred uses required by this paragraph at the ground floor to windows, which shall include: (i) Clear/low emissivity glass allowing transparency to a depth of twenty feet (20 ft.) into the preferred ground level space, with bottom sills no more than four feet (4 ft.) above the adjacent sidewalk grade; and (ii) Views from within the building to the street and from the street into the building; (z) Service uses are permitted as a matter of right, provided that if the use offers massage services, the use shall either: (1) Be a licensed massage establishment under the provisions of D.C. Official Code § 47-2811; or (2) Only offer massage services provided by massage therapists with a professional license issued pursuant to Title 17 DCMR; (aa) Transportation infrastructure; (bb) Utilities (basic) uses are permitted as a matter-of–right; however, if the use is an electronic equipment facility that exceeds twenty-five percent (25%) of the gross floor area of a building located on site: City of Washington, D.C. \| Title 11 - Zoning SUBTITLE U, CHAPTER 8-5 (1) The building shall not be located within eight hundred feet (800 ft.) of an established or planned Metrorail station; and (2) The building shall not be located within one thousand two hundred fifty feet (1,250 ft.) of the edge of a river as measured at mean high tide; (cc) Waste-related service uses, including for conversion to energy subject to the Standards of External Effects in Subtitle U § 804, and the use shall not be permitted on any lot located in whole or in part within one hundred feet (100 ft.) of a residential zone; (dd) Wholesale or storage establishment, including open storage, except a junk yard. SOURCE: Final Rulemaking & Order No. 08-06A published at 63 DCR 2447 (March 4, 2016 – Part 2); Final Rulemaking & Order No. 08-06E published at 63 DCR 10932 (August 26, 2016); Final Rulemaking & Order No. 19-04 published at 66 DCR 12137 (September 13, 2019); Final Rulemaking & Order No. 20-03 published at 67 DCR 14506 (December 11, 2020); Final Rulemaking & Order No. 19-31 published at 69 DCR 12886 (October 21, 2022); Final Rulemaking & Order No. 18-16/19-27-19-27B published at 70 DCR 11297 (August 25, 2023).
PDR-4/FT the ordinance paragraph quoted here	33	Allowed	Subtitle U §801.1(x) Retail uses, except large format retail; City of Washington, D.C. \| Title 11 - Zoning SUBTITLE U, CHAPTER 8-4 (y) Self-storage establishment uses shall be permitted provided they meet the following: (1) Devote to any use permitted by this section except for Parking, Transportation Infrastructure, Utility, Waste-related service or Wholesale or storage establishment: (A) Not less than fifty percent (50%) of the ground floor area; (B) One hundred percent (100%) of the building's street frontage along a public street to a minimum depth of thirty feet (30 ft.) from the front facade, with the exception of space devoted to building entrances or required for fire control, office associated with the self-storage establishment use, or required by the District of Columbia Building or Fire Codes (Titles 12A and 12H DCMR); and (2) Design the ground floor with: (A) A minimum clear floor-to-ceiling height of fourteen feet (14 ft.), measured from the finished grade; and (B) Not less than seventy-five percent (75%) of the surface area of the street wall associated with the preferred uses required by this paragraph at the ground floor to windows, which shall include: (i) Clear/low emissivity glass allowing transparency to a depth of twenty feet (20 ft.) into the preferred ground level space, with bottom sills no more than four feet (4 ft.) above the adjacent sidewalk grade; and (ii) Views from within the building to the street and from the street into the building; (z) Service uses are permitted as a matter of right, provided that if the use offers massage services, the use shall either: (1) Be a licensed massage establishment under the provisions of D.C. Official Code § 47-2811; or (2) Only offer massage services provided by massage therapists with a professional license issued pursuant to Title 17 DCMR; (aa) Transportation infrastructure; (bb) Utilities (basic) uses are permitted as a matter-of–right; however, if the use is an electronic equipment facility that exceeds twenty-five percent (25%) of the gross floor area of a building located on site: City of Washington, D.C. \| Title 11 - Zoning SUBTITLE U, CHAPTER 8-5 (1) The building shall not be located within eight hundred feet (800 ft.) of an established or planned Metrorail station; and (2) The building shall not be located within one thousand two hundred fifty feet (1,250 ft.) of the edge of a river as measured at mean high tide; (cc) Waste-related service uses, including for conversion to energy subject to the Standards of External Effects in Subtitle U § 804, and the use shall not be permitted on any lot located in whole or in part within one hundred feet (100 ft.) of a residential zone; (dd) Wholesale or storage establishment, including open storage, except a junk yard. SOURCE: Final Rulemaking & Order No. 08-06A published at 63 DCR 2447 (March 4, 2016 – Part 2); Final Rulemaking & Order No. 08-06E published at 63 DCR 10932 (August 26, 2016); Final Rulemaking & Order No. 19-04 published at 66 DCR 12137 (September 13, 2019); Final Rulemaking & Order No. 20-03 published at 67 DCR 14506 (December 11, 2020); Final Rulemaking & Order No. 19-31 published at 69 DCR 12886 (October 21, 2022); Final Rulemaking & Order No. 18-16/19-27-19-27B published at 70 DCR 11297 (August 25, 2023).

Retail uses (excluding large format retail use)

Allowed by right in 16 districts

District	Properties loaded	Code	What says so
ARTS-1 the ordinance paragraph quoted here	27	Allowed	Subtitle U §512.1(k) Retail uses, except for large format retail, provided that the off-premises beer and wine sales accessory use in the grocery store located in Square 2572, Lot 36, may continue, provided that it shall not occupy more than two thousand seventy-eight square feet (2,078 sq. ft.) of the store’s gross floor area;
ARTS-2 the ordinance paragraph quoted here	238	Allowed	Subtitle U §512.1(k) Retail uses, except for large format retail, provided that the off-premises beer and wine sales accessory use in the grocery store located in Square 2572, Lot 36, may continue, provided that it shall not occupy more than two thousand seventy-eight square feet (2,078 sq. ft.) of the store’s gross floor area;
BF-1A the ordinance paragraph quoted here	10	Allowed	Subtitle U §512.1(k) Retail uses, except for large format retail, provided that the off-premises beer and wine sales accessory use in the grocery store located in Square 2572, Lot 36, may continue, provided that it shall not occupy more than two thousand seventy-eight square feet (2,078 sq. ft.) of the store’s gross floor area;
BF-1B the ordinance paragraph quoted here	5	Allowed	Subtitle U §512.1(k) Retail uses, except for large format retail, provided that the off-premises beer and wine sales accessory use in the grocery store located in Square 2572, Lot 36, may continue, provided that it shall not occupy more than two thousand seventy-eight square feet (2,078 sq. ft.) of the store’s gross floor area;
CG-2 the ordinance paragraph quoted here	12	Allowed	Subtitle U §512.1(k) Retail uses, except for large format retail, provided that the off-premises beer and wine sales accessory use in the grocery store located in Square 2572, Lot 36, may continue, provided that it shall not occupy more than two thousand seventy-eight square feet (2,078 sq. ft.) of the store’s gross floor area;
MU-4 the ordinance paragraph quoted here	3,698	Allowed	Subtitle U §512.1(k) Retail uses, except for large format retail, provided that the off-premises beer and wine sales accessory use in the grocery store located in Square 2572, Lot 36, may continue, provided that it shall not occupy more than two thousand seventy-eight square feet (2,078 sq. ft.) of the store’s gross floor area;
MU-4/CAP the ordinance paragraph quoted here	38	Allowed	Subtitle U §512.1(k) Retail uses, except for large format retail, provided that the off-premises beer and wine sales accessory use in the grocery store located in Square 2572, Lot 36, may continue, provided that it shall not occupy more than two thousand seventy-eight square feet (2,078 sq. ft.) of the store’s gross floor area;
MU-4/CAP/CHC the ordinance paragraph quoted here	94	Allowed	Subtitle U §512.1(k) Retail uses, except for large format retail, provided that the off-premises beer and wine sales accessory use in the grocery store located in Square 2572, Lot 36, may continue, provided that it shall not occupy more than two thousand seventy-eight square feet (2,078 sq. ft.) of the store’s gross floor area;
MU-4/CHC the ordinance paragraph quoted here	211	Allowed	Subtitle U §512.1(k) Retail uses, except for large format retail, provided that the off-premises beer and wine sales accessory use in the grocery store located in Square 2572, Lot 36, may continue, provided that it shall not occupy more than two thousand seventy-eight square feet (2,078 sq. ft.) of the store’s gross floor area;
MU-4/DC the ordinance paragraph quoted here	30	Allowed	Subtitle U §512.1(k) Retail uses, except for large format retail, provided that the off-premises beer and wine sales accessory use in the grocery store located in Square 2572, Lot 36, may continue, provided that it shall not occupy more than two thousand seventy-eight square feet (2,078 sq. ft.) of the store’s gross floor area;
MU-4/NO the ordinance paragraph quoted here	52	Allowed	Subtitle U §512.1(k) Retail uses, except for large format retail, provided that the off-premises beer and wine sales accessory use in the grocery store located in Square 2572, Lot 36, may continue, provided that it shall not occupy more than two thousand seventy-eight square feet (2,078 sq. ft.) of the store’s gross floor area;
MU-4/RC the ordinance paragraph quoted here	4	Allowed	Subtitle U §512.1(k) Retail uses, except for large format retail, provided that the off-premises beer and wine sales accessory use in the grocery store located in Square 2572, Lot 36, may continue, provided that it shall not occupy more than two thousand seventy-eight square feet (2,078 sq. ft.) of the store’s gross floor area;
MU-5A the ordinance paragraph quoted here	489	Allowed	Subtitle U §512.1(k) Retail uses, except for large format retail, provided that the off-premises beer and wine sales accessory use in the grocery store located in Square 2572, Lot 36, may continue, provided that it shall not occupy more than two thousand seventy-eight square feet (2,078 sq. ft.) of the store’s gross floor area;
MU-5A/DC the ordinance paragraph quoted here	54	Allowed	Subtitle U §512.1(k) Retail uses, except for large format retail, provided that the off-premises beer and wine sales accessory use in the grocery store located in Square 2572, Lot 36, may continue, provided that it shall not occupy more than two thousand seventy-eight square feet (2,078 sq. ft.) of the store’s gross floor area;
MU-5A/RC the ordinance paragraph quoted here	9	Allowed	Subtitle U §512.1(k) Retail uses, except for large format retail, provided that the off-premises beer and wine sales accessory use in the grocery store located in Square 2572, Lot 36, may continue, provided that it shall not occupy more than two thousand seventy-eight square feet (2,078 sq. ft.) of the store’s gross floor area;
MU-5B the ordinance paragraph quoted here	34	Allowed	Subtitle U §512.1(k) Retail uses, except for large format retail, provided that the off-premises beer and wine sales accessory use in the grocery store located in Square 2572, Lot 36, may continue, provided that it shall not occupy more than two thousand seventy-eight square feet (2,078 sq. ft.) of the store’s gross floor area;

Retail uses, except for a large format retail use

Allowed by right in 1 district

District	Properties loaded	Code	What says so
MU-5 the ordinance paragraph quoted here	no parcels loaded	Allowed	Subtitle U §512.1(k) Retail uses, except for large format retail, provided that the off-premises beer and wine sales accessory use in the grocery store located in Square 2572, Lot 36, may continue, provided that it shall not occupy more than two thousand seventy-eight square feet (2,078 sq. ft.) of the store’s gross floor area;

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138,270 properties are loaded, county-wide. The District’s parcel record gives a street address but no ZIP code, so there is no ZIP breakdown to give and none is shown.
A further 2,535 properties carry a parcel zone code this page cannot match to a single column of the use table: (none), ARTS (6 variants, e.g. ARTS-1;ARTS-2), BF (7 variants, e.g. BF-1A;RA-1), CG (6 variants, e.g. CG-3;RA-2), D (17 variants, e.g. D-2;D-6), HE (6 variants, e.g. HE-1;HE-2), MU (131 variants, e.g. MU-1/DC;MU-2/DC), NHR;PDR, NHR;UNZONED, NMU (16 variants, e.g. NMU-3A/MW;RA-1), NYE;UNZONED, PDR (34 variants, e.g. PDR-1/CAP;RF-1/CAP), R (58 variants, e.g. R-1A/CBUT;R-1B), RA (18 variants, e.g. RA-1;RA-2) and 5 more.
1,678 of those lie in TWO OR MORE districts at once. Their code below holds every district the parcel really shares area with, joined by a semicolon — ARTS-1;ARTS-2, ARTS-1;ARTS-4;RA-2, ARTS-1;RF-1, ARTS-3;ARTS-4, ARTS-3;RA-2 and 327 more. The ordinance does not say the larger share wins, so we do not pick one: the parcel is shown as straddling and is not counted under either district.
(none) above means a parcel with no zone code assigned in the District's own data — 5 of them.
Owner filters. We have an owner of record for 132,963 of Washington, D.C.’s 138,270 parcels, of which 36,467 are owned by a company, trust or other organization, including 6,282 owned by public bodies — governments, authorities, schools, churches. That split is Zonescore’s reading of the owner’s name, not something the District published, and we keep the two apart rather than deciding for you which counts as an investor. 19,115 have an owner whose mailing address is outside DC — read off the end of the District’s own address string, where the state actually is, because “MD” also occurs inside “RICHMOND”. We could read a state on 126,746 of them; the rest are not counted either way. 34,374 are owned by somebody this District writes to at a different address — not the property itself. That is where the tax bill goes, which is not the same as where the owner sleeps — an owner can collect mail at a property they rent out, and one who is written to elsewhere may still live here. We can tell you the two addresses differ; we cannot tell you the owner does not live at the property. 18,004 of them are written to an address inside DC, so the out-of-state filter above cannot see them at all. That count is out of the 117,932 properties where we could compare the two addresses. On 15,031 more we could not — the owner is written to a post-office box, or the District’s own record of the property names a street and no building number — and those are left out rather than counted as living at home. Matching two addresses is Zonescore’s reading, not something the District published: we treat “123 Main St” and “123 Main Street” as one place, ignore an apartment number, and compare the ZIP code rather than the town name — a jurisdiction’s record of a property and its record of that property’s owner often name the same place by different towns, and treating those as two addresses would count somebody living in their own house as an absentee. Owned for (based on the last recorded transfer): under 2 years 13,000+; 2-5 years 18,000+; 5-10 years 26,000+; 10-20 years 26,000+; 20-30 years 18,000+. 30+ years: Not offered here. The transfer dates we hold for the District begin in 1997, so they cannot show a 30-year hold. Older recorded transfers from the District would close this. 33,000+ properties have no transfer date we can read and are in no bucket. 70,693 are worth more as land than as building — the District’s own land assessment is at least 50% of its total. 5,241 properties carry no pair of assessments and are left out of that count rather than treated as zero, which would make every one of them look like bare land.
Owner data from District of Columbia's property ownership records, retrieved September 25, 2026. CC BY 4.0.
The parcel record we fetch carries no ZIP code for the property itself, so the district counts above carry no ZIP breakdown. It gives the street address only; the one ZIP it does carry belongs to the owner’s mailing address, which is a fact about a different place and is not used here. We do not infer a ZIP we were not given.
Overlay districts are not modeled here. An overlay can change what a property allows.
Some cells in this ordinance state two outcomes without saying what separates them; those are shown with their code and their source, and not guessed at.

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