The Post reports that Vince Gray, Eleanor Holmes Norton and Darrell Issa are considering loosening the Height Act that keeps buildings in D.C. short and squat when the city is running out of land. more ›

The D.C. Zoning Commission has proposed a change to the city's zoning rules that would allow yoga studios more flexibility in where they choose to set up shop. more ›

If you want to open a gun store in the District these days, you'd be limited to locations that were 300 feet away from schools, churches, recreation centers or playgrounds. One member of the D.C. Council wants that to change. more ›

The District of Columbia has often experienced lengthy battles between communities and business owners over zoning. But to the city's credit, we don't recall there ever being a time when the city's political leadership went after a Girl Scout cookie stand. more ›

Recently dissed by one user as but the third-best government Twitter account in town, it's obvious that the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs won't be taking such slights lying down. more ›

Looking to register a handgun in the District of Columbia? You're currently out of luck: Mark Segraves reports that there's a "temporary, de facto ban" on registration because the city's lone gun registrar has stopped taking orders after he lost his lease. more ›

A Bloomingdale blog has republished emails exchanged between ANC Commissioner Gigi Ransom, Big Bear Cafe owner Stu Davenport and blogger Tom Bridge which really give some insight into what kind of mess can result when a small business in D.C. wants to expand in the face of community opposition. more ›

We finally got our hands on a copy of the unanimous resolution made by Advisory Neighborhood Commission 5C last night, opposing Big Bear Cafe's application for a liquor license. The resolution is damning, stating not only the body's opposition to the Cafe's license application, but also that the popular coffeeshop has "been in operation illegally since 2007" due to zoning violations. The body claims that the Cafe "held events...which included alcoholic beverage service without a full or temporary ABC issued liquor license" as one of the myriad reasons that they voted against supporting the application. The ANC also placed restrictions on any voluntary agreement that might be fostered between owner Stu Davenport and the community: mandated closing hours of 10 p.m. on weekdays and 11 p.m. on weekends, extra soundproofing, and a seven-day written notice to all "immediately impacted residents" for any event planned at the Cafe. more ›

In case you missed our retweet last night, the D.C. Zoning Commission on Monday adopted an immediate increase to the cap on bars and restaurants that may operate in the 14th and U street NW corridors. more ›

For as long as the U Street corridor has been described as "up and coming" or "rapidly developing" or "almost totally gentrified," there's been hand wringing among neighborhood groups over whether it might ultimately turn into something as unwieldy as Adams Morgan's 18th Street. Everyone wants the area around where U and 14th streets NW intersect to be a vibrant business district, but hardly anyone wants drunk college students spilling off the sidewalks every weekend. And over the last five years, U Street has by any measure inched closer toward that reality. At the same time, there's still plenty of yet to be developed storefronts in the neighborhood, and local entrepreneurs are understandably drawn to the area's increasing density and commercial viability. more ›

Late last week the Examiner delved into one of the remaining unanswered questions standing between D.C. residents and the handguns they are now allowed to have -- the stores where they can buy them. more ›

Here's a question: if you have access to a car, have you ever driven it to the DCUSA complex? Or how about your local supermarket? more ›

As we mentioned yesterday, gun sales in the District will officially kick off next Tuesday, Sept. 9. But the city's only licensed gun seller so far won't actually be selling guns, he'll just be facilitating transfers from guns purchased in other states. So what about gun shops? more ›