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BZA continues deliberations and seeks tighter conditions on two proposed 16‑bed health care facilities
Summary
The Board discussed two self‑certified applications (21240 and 21249) proposing new 16‑bed health care facilities in R‑2 zones. Board members pressed applicants for detailed conditions on noise, trash, deliveries, parking, staff levels and supervision and scheduled a continued hearing for June 4 to return proposed conditions.
The D.C. Board of Zoning Adjustment on May 14 spent a substantial portion of its hearing session discussing two related self‑certified applications for 16‑bed health care facilities: application 21240 (4237 Eads St. NE) and application 21249 (4231 Clay St. NE). The board did not vote; it requested more specific, enforceable conditions from the applicants and scheduled a continued hearing and decision work in early June.
Context and zoning posture: both applications were filed under Subtitle X §901.2 and request special‑exception relief under Subtitle U §203.1(j) to allow health care facilities in the R‑2 zone. The proposals would raise the number of resident beds from the matter‑of‑right allowance (eight) to 16 by special exception; the board noted the distinction between a health care facility and an assisted‑living facility as…
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