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Council signals support to remove one downtown parking space to enable Bronx building redevelopment

City of Washington — Committee of the Whole · October 14, 2025
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Summary

Planning staff described options to divide the former Bronx building into two or three tenant spaces; council expressed consensus to allow removal of one adjacent city lot parking space to create a secondary entrance, subject to Historic Preservation Commission approval.

Interim City Administrator Dennis Carr introduced a downtown redevelopment request to remove one on‑street parking space in the city lot adjacent to the former Bronx building so the owner could add a secondary entrance from the north façade. Planning Director John Oliphant described the property as roughly 4,000 square feet and about…

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