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BZA approves H Street mixed‑use project with fast‑food stalls, imposes indoor trash rule for fast food uses
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Summary
The board approved a consolidated mixed‑use redevelopment at 1355–1361 H Street NE that will add retail and dining uses, including fast‑food‑type stalls, and placed a condition requiring indoor trash storage and closed, locked trash rooms for fast‑food tenants.
The Board of Zoning Adjustment approved application 21254 permitting new eating and drinking establishments and retail space in existing buildings at 1355–1361 H Street NE and associated alley lots, subject to conditions to manage trash from fast‑food uses.
Applicant counsel Alex Wilson said the project consolidates five lots into a single record lot that will operate as a small urban commercial center with multiple tenant stalls, some of which seek fast‑food use relief because they fall between traditional retail and full‑service restaurant categories. Wilson and the Office of Planning worked to craft a condition linking the fast‑food relief to an indoor trash‑storage requirement.
Matt Jesik of the Office of Planning said OP recommended approval and proposed a condition requiring fast‑food garbage to be stored internally; the applicant agreed. Vice Chair Rob Miller and other board members cited unanimous ANC 6A support, CHRS support and 26 neighborhood letters of support as evidence of community outreach.
Chairman Fred Hill moved to approve the application with OP’s trash condition: indoor storage of trash associated with the fast‑food use, prohibition on trash/recycling containers in public space, and locked exterior doors on trash rooms; Vice Chair Carl Blake seconded. The board recorded the vote as 4 yes, 0 no, 1 absent.
The order approves the lot consolidation and the requested special exceptions, with the trash condition intended to minimize alley and public‑space impacts from food service operations.
