Eight Unit Development Pitched For 10th Street And Naylor Court

• June 24th

by UrbanTurf Staff

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On the heels of a new zoning regulation expanding alley housing around DC, a new residential project has been pitched for Naylor Court. 

The 8-unit proposal at 1323 10th Street NW takes a creative approach to the city’s RF-1 zone, which permits two units by right on a lot. Rather than stacking units vertically, 2Plys Architecture + Development has arranged them back-to-back across four lots, with one unit on each lot facing 10th Street NW and its counterpart facing Naylor Court NW — the historic brick alley that runs behind the site. That orientation gives the Naylor Court-facing units their own distinct entrance and facade. The residences are generously sized, ranging from roughly 2,000 to 3,000 square feet depending on how space in the alley-facing structures is allocated between units.

Rounding out the program are two-story accessory buildings situated at the rear of each lot. A shared walkway and driveway running through the middle of the site will connect to a central motor court tucked between the main houses and the accessory buildings, creating a private interior courtyard for parking and resident use. To ensure the rear units remain accessible from the street, the site plan incorporates a five-foot open walkway along the south side of the lot, giving owners of the Naylor Court-facing units a direct pedestrian connection to 10th Street.

The plans will go before the city’s Historic Preservation Review Board next month.

This article originally published at https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/eight_unit_development_pitched_for_10th_street_and_naylor_court/24761.