SOUTHWEST WATERFRONT REDEVELOPMENT STAGE 2 PUD – PHASE I HOFFMAN-STRUEVER WATERFRONT, L.L.C. APPLICATION TO THE D.C. ZONING COMMISSION FOR A SECOND STAGE PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT STATEMENT OF THE APPLICANT February 3, 2012 Submitted by: HOLLAND & KNIGHT LLP 2099 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Suite 100 Washington, D.C. 20006 (202) 955-3000 Norman M. Glasgow, Jr. Mary Carolyn Brown ZONING COMMISSION Counsel for the Applicant District of Columbia ZONING COMMISSION Case No. 11-03A District of Columbia CASE NO.11-03A 2 EXHIBIT NO.2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page PREFACE .......................................................................................................................................... iii DEVELOPMENT TEAM ...................................................................................................................... v LIST OF EXHIBITS ........................................................................................................................... viii I. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................ 1 A. Overview ......................................................................................................................... 1 B. The Applicant and Development Team .......................................................................... 2 II. APPROVED STAGE 1 PUD DEVELOPMENT PARAMETER ............................................................. 4 III. PROPOSED VERTICAL DEVELOPMENT........................................................................................ 5 A. Overview of the Project Design Intent ........................................................................... 5 B. Parcel 2: Residential, Theater, Retail and Co-Generation Plant .................................... 6 C. Parcel 3: Office and Hotel .............................................................................................. 9 1. Parcel 3A: Commercial Office Building with Ground Floor Retail....................... 9 2. Parcel 3B: Intercontinental Hotel with Ground Floor Retail ............................. 11 D. Parcel 4: Residential Building with Ground Floor Retail .............................................. 15 E. Parcel 11: St. Augustine’s Church and Residential Building ........................................ 17 1. Residential Building ............................................................................................ 17 2. Church Building .................................................................................................. 18 IV. OPEN SPACES AND PIER FACILITIES ......................................................................................... 19 A. Open Spaces and Thoroughfares .................................................................................. 19 1. Overview ............................................................................................................ 19 2. The Wharf .......................................................................................................... 19 3. Maine Avenue .................................................................................................... 21 4. District Pier ......................................................................................................... 23 5. The Mews ........................................................................................................... 24 6. 7th Street Park ................................................................................................... 25 7. Waterfront Park ................................................................................................. 26 B. Pier Facilities and Waterside Development .................................................................. 29 1. Transit Pier ......................................................................................................... 29 2. District Pier ......................................................................................................... 30 3. 7th Street Pier .................................................................................................... 30 4. Capital Yacht Club and Marina ........................................................................... 31 5. Market Docks ..................................................................................................... 31 ZONING COMMISSION 6. Wharf Kiosks ................................................................................................District of Columbia ...... 32 Case No. 11-03A - i - 2 C. Parking and Loading Facilities ....................................................................................... 32 V. TABULATION OF DEVELOPMENT DATA .................................................................................... 34 VI. FLEXIBILITY UNDER PUD GUIDELINES ...................................................................................... 34 A. Overview ....................................................................................................................... 34 B. Loading .......................................................................................................................... 34 C. Lot Occupancy ............................................................................................................... 36 D. Roof Structures ............................................................................................................. 36 E. Other Minor Flexibility .................................................................................................. 36 VII. PUBLIC BENEFITS AND PROJECT AMENITIES .......................................................................... 37 A. Overview of Public Benefits and Amenities .................................................................. 37 B. Affordable and Workforce Housing .............................................................................. 38 C. Sustainable (LEED) Development Objectives................................................................ 43 D. Business Improvement District ..................................................................................... 47 E. CBE and First Source Employment Opportunities ........................................................ 47 VIII. TRANSPORTATION STUDY ..................................................................................................... 48 IX. CONCLUSION ............................................................................................................................ 49 ZONING COMMISSION District of Columbia Case No. 11-03A - ii - 2 PREFACE This statement and the attached documents are submitted to the District of Columbia Zoning Commission in support of a second-stage Planned Unit Development ("PUD") application for the Southwest Waterfront redevelopment project in Washington, D.C. The project site is generally bounded by the Washington Channel of the Potomac River and Maine Avenue, between 11th Street on the west to 6th Street on the east, all in Southwest Washington. The Zoning Commission approved the Stage 1 PUD application for this project by order dated December 16, 2011, in Z.C. Case No. 11-03. This Stage 2 PUD application encompasses the portion of the project site known as Parcels 2, 3, 4, and 11, the Capital Yacht Club, and the public open spaces known as the Wharf, the Transit Pier, the District Pier, the Yacht Club Piazza, the Mews, Jazz Alley, 7th Street Park and Waterfront Park. Parcel 1 will also be improved with a temporary parking lot/event space. Subsequent Stage 2 applications will be filed for the remainder of the site over the next several years. Hoffman-Struever Waterfront, L.L.C., doing business as Hoffman-Madison Waterfront (“Hoffman-Madison”), is the master developer of the Southwest Waterfront project. Hoffman- Madison has filed this Stage 2 PUD application on behalf of the District of Columbia through the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development, the owner of all parcels of land within the entire PUD project area, except for Lots 83 and 814 in Square 473, also known as Parcel 11, which are owned by the Vestry of St. Augustine’s Church. This first Stage 2 PUD application encompasses Parcels 2, 3, 4, and 11, as well as a temporary parking lot on Parcel 1. The Stage 2 "vertical" development will include two mixed-income apartment houses (rental) built above a multi-purpose entertainment and cultural venue on Parcel 2; a co-generation power facility on ZONING COMMISSION District of Columbia Case No. 11-03A - iii - 2 Parcel 2 to service the PUD site from 7th Street to the Fish Market; an office building with ground floor retail on north portion of Parcel 3, known as Parcel 3A; a hotel with ground floor retail on Parcel 3B; a mixed-income rental apartment building and a market-rate condominium building with ground floor retail on Parcel 4; a church and multi-family residential building on Parcel 11; the Capital Yacht Club on the Wharf just below Parcels 3 and 4; the District Pier Pavilion on the landside of the District Pier; the Dock Masters Building on the waterside of the District Pier; the Transit Pier Pavilion on the Transit Pier, and flexible retail kiosks on the Wharf, and the Waterfront Park Pavilion in the Waterfront Park. The Stage 2 development will include approximately 1,552,253 square feet of gross floor area, or approximately 49 percent of the projected 3,165,000 million square feet of gross floor area approved in the entire PUD. Approximately
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