514. PROHIBITED USES (MU USE GROUP E)

514 PROHIBITED USES (MU USE GROUP E) 514.1 This section prohibits uses otherwise permitted by this chapter as a matter of right or as a special exception. 514.2 In the MU-4/CAP and MU-4/CAP/CHC zones, the following uses are prohibited: (a) Car wash; (b) Automobile or truck sales; (c) Automobile rental agency; (d) Boat or other marine sales; (e) Drive-in restaurant; (f) Electric substation or natural gas regulator station; (g) Gasoline service station as a principal or an accessory use; (h) Installation of automobile accessories; (i) Motorcycle sales and repairs; (j) Parcel delivery service; (k) Parking lot, parking garage, or public storage garage; and (l) Public utility pumping station. 514.3 In the MU-4/RC and MU-5A/RC zones, the following uses shall be prohibited: (a) Antenna tower in excess of twenty feet (20 ft.) in height; (b) Any use not permitted in the MU-10 zone, except a parking lot as permitted by Subtitle U § 203.1(k); (c) Assembly hall, auditorium, or public hall; (d) Automobile laundry; (e) Automobile or truck sales; (f) Automobile rental agency that stores or services automobiles within an RC zone; (g) Bar or cocktail lounge; (h) Billiard parlor or pool hall; (i) Boat or other marine sales; (j) Bowling alley; (k) Bus passenger depot; (l) Drive-through; (m) Funeral mortuary or other similar establishment; (n) Gasoline service station or repair garage; (o) Hotel; (p) Motorcycle sales or repair; (q) Movie theater; (r) Off-premises alcoholic beverage sales, except that the off-premises beer and wine sales accessory use in the grocery store located in Square 2572, Lot 36, may continue as a matter of right provided that it shall not occupy more than 2,078 square feet of the store’s gross floor area, and that the off-premises beer and wine sales may be permitted as a matter of right primary or accessory use in Square 2557, Lot 800; (s) On-premises dry cleaning establishment; (t) Parcel delivery service establishment other than one exclusively dedicated to serving a sound stage or a movie, video, or television production facility that existed on April 26, 1991, except that a parcel delivery service establishment may be permitted as a matter of right in Square 2557, Lot 800; (u) Restaurant or fast-food establishment, except that a restaurant may be permitted as a matter of right in Square 2557, Lot 800; (v) Satellite reception dish greater than fifteen feet (15 ft.) in diameter; (w) Transient accommodations that are not home occupations; (x) Veterinary hospital, except that a veterinary hospital may be permitted as a matter of right in Square 2557, Lot 800; and (y) Video game parlor. SOURCE: Final Rulemaking published at 63 DCR 2447, 3338 (March 4, 2016 – Part 2); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 70 DCR 011297 (August 25, 2023); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 73 DCR 008246 (June 5, 2026). District of Columbia Municipal Regulations Zoning Regulations of 2016: Use Permissions 11-U DCMR § 514