78 STAT. ]
PUBLIC LAW 88-659-OCT. 13, 1964
1091
Public Law 88-659 AN ACT
October 13, 1964
To regulate the location of chanceries and other business offices of foreign governments in the District of Columbia.
^^' ^^^^
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the D.C. United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 6 of the regulations. _^_^ zoning ^, Act entitled "An Act providing for the zoning of the District of Buildings' of Columbia and the regulation of the location, height, bulk, and uses ^ ^ ^ j ^ " governof buildings and other structures and the uses of land in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes", approved June 20, 1938, as amended (D.C. Code, sec. 5-418), is amended by inserting " (a) " after ^2 Stat. 798. "SEC. 6." and by adding at the end of such section the following new subsections: "(b) After the date of enactment of this subsection a foreign government shall be permitted to construct, alter, repair, convert, or occupy a building anywhere in the District of Columbia, other than a district or zone restricted in accordance with this Act to use for industrial purposes, for use by such government as an embassy. "(c) After the date of enactment of this subsection, except as otherwise provided in subsection (d) of this section, no foreign government shall be permitted to construct, alter, repair, convert, or occupy a building for use as a chancery where official business of such government is to be conducted on any land, regardless of the date such land was acquired, within any district or zone restricted in accordance with this Act to use for residential purposes. " (d) After the date of enactment of this subsection a foreign government shall be permitted to construct, alter, repair, convert, or occupy a building for use as a chancery within any district or zone restricted in accordance with this Act to use for medium-high density apartments or high density apartments if the Board of Zoning Adjustment shall determine after a public hearing that the proposed use and the building in which the use is to be conducted are compatible with the present and proposed development of the neighborhood. In deteiTaining compatibility the Board of Zoning Adjustment must find that^— " (1) in districts or zones restricted in accordance with this Act to use for medium-high density apartments, that oiff-street parking spaces will be provided at a ratio of not less than one such space for each twelve hundred square feet of gross floor area; and "(2) in districts or zones restricted in accordance with this Act to use for high density apartments, that off-street parking spaces will be provided at a ratio of not less than one such space for each one thousand eight hundred square feet of gross floor area: and "(3) \h<& height of the building does not exceed the maximum permitted in the district or zone in which it is located; and "(4) the architectural design and the arrangement of all structures and off-street parking spaces are in keeping with the character of the neighborhood. "(e) As used in this section, the term— Definitions. " (1) 'embassy' means a building used as the official residence of the chief of a diplomatic mission of a foreign government. "(2) 'chancery' means a building containing business offices of the chief of a diplomatic mission of a foreign government where official business of such government is conducted, and such term shall include any chancery annex, and the business offices of attaches of a foreign government who are under the personal direction and superintendence of the chief of mission of such government. Such term shall not include business offices of non-
�
