The Tree and Slope Protection (TSP) Overlay District is established to preserve and enhance the park-like setting of designated neighborhoods adjacent to streams or parks by regulating alteration or disturbance of terrain, destruction of trees, and ground coverage of permitted buildings and other impervious surfaces.
The TSP Overlay District shall include a number of individual overlay zone districts that may be established and mapped from time to time, consistent with the general provisions of this chapter.
The purposes of the TSP Overlay District is to:
The TSP Overlay District is designed for residential neighborhoods that are located at the edge of stream beds or public open spaces and that have a significant quantity of steep slopes, stands of mature trees, and undeveloped lots and parcels subject to potential terrain alteration and tree removal. It is not suitable for mapping in neighborhoods where nearly all lots are already developed on a rectangular grid system and the existing mature trees are either yard trees or street trees.
D.C. Mun. Regs. r. 11-1511