Committee Print
Committee on Public Works and the Environment
May 8, 2007
A BILL
17-0109
IN THE COUNCIL OF THE
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To amend Title 25 of the District of Columbia Official Code to permit
within a time certain, a one-time transfer of licensee establishments that
permit nude dancing, which were displaced by development in or near the
Ballpark footprint, or within the Skyland Development Project site.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this act may be cited
as the One-Time Relocation of Licensees Displaced by the
Ballpark and Skyland Development Project Amendment Act of 2007.
Sec.
2. Title 25 of the District of
Columbia Official Code is amended as follows:
(a)
Section 25-374 is amended by
designating the existing text as subsection (a).
(b)
A new subsection (b) is
added to read as follows:
(b)(1) Notwithstanding the
restrictions of subsection (a) and (a)(1) of this section, but subject to the
provisions in subsection (a)(2) of this section, if a licensee was located in a
CM or M-zoned district, in or within 2000 feet of the footprint of the Ballpark, as of January 1, 2006, or was
located within the Skyland Development Project site as described in D.C.
Official Code § 2-1219.19(c)(1), as of January 1, 2007, then within 1 year of
the effective date of this act a license may be transferred to:
(A) A location in any CM or
M-zoned district, if the licensee was located in a CM or M-zoned district,
respectively, as identified in the zoning regulations of the District of
Columbia and shown in the official atlases of the Zoning Commission of the
District of Columbia; or
(B) A location in any
CM-zoned district, if the licensee was located within the Skyland Development
Project site.
(2) For the purposes of this subsection, the term Ballpark
is as defined in DC Official Code § 47-2002.05(a)(1)(A)..
Sec. 3.
Fiscal impact statement.
The
Council adopts the fiscal impact statement in the committee report as the
fiscal impact statement required by section 602(c)(3) of the District of
Columbia Home Rule Act, approved December 24, 1973 (84 Stat. 813; D.C. Official
Code § 1-206.02(c)(3)).
Sec. 4.
Effective date.
This
act shall take effect following approval by the Mayor (or in the event of veto
by the Mayor, action by the Council to override the veto), a 30-day period of
Congressional review as provided in section 602(c)(1) of the District of
Columbia Home Rule Act, approved December 24, 1973 (87 Stat. 813; D.C. Official
Code § 1-206.02(c)(1)), and publication in the District of Columbia Register.
