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Excerpt from Building Height Limits in the District of Columbia: Hearing Before the Committee on the District of Columbia, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session On the day before Thanksgiving 1993, the District's Zoning Ad ministrator advised the Zoning Commission that the building was, in fact, in violation. In response, the applicants did not change the hei ht or envelope of the building. Instead, over Thanksgiving wee end, they drew two new lines on the plans and said there was now a solid studio roof in place of the effective ceilin The space above the new roof was relabeled mechanical pent ouse. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO obtained information on: (1) the current laws limiting building heights in the District of Columbia; (2) the administrative apparatus in place to implement building height limitations; and (3) federal and District officials' opinions on whether the current laws and regulations satisfactorily protect the federal interest with respect to security and to the architectural and aesthetic character of the District. GAO found that: (1) the Building Height Act and the Schedule of Heights of Buildings Adjacent to Public Buildings, which has served to maintain the prominence of federal buildings and monuments in the District, govern private-sector maximum building heights in the District; (2) although the District government is the administrative apparatus which enforces the act, the federal government has building height authority over public building projects in some parts of the District; (3) responses to a questionnaire sent to federal, District, and private organizations indicated no consensus as to whether the laws or the administrative apparatus protect the federal interest; (4) there was concern about the need for additional guidance to ensure that buildings did not exceed height limitations inside and outside of the District; and (5) some officials believed that the lack of security reviews to ensure protection of the federal interest indicated the need for the establishment of formal guidelines to conduct the reviews.

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