Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right24
- single-unit dwelling
- two-unit dwelling
- townhouse dwelling
- multi-unit dwelling
- auxiliary dwelling, not to exceed four units
- business and professional office
- cemetery
- church
- day care center
- medical laboratory
- health and athletic club or fitness studio
- health profession office
- motor vehicle parking or storage for 20 vehicles or fewer
- outdoor dining located on private property at a commercial complex
- personal service establishment
- private school, commercial
- public school
- recreation and entertainment use, indoor
- retail shopping establishment, up to 20,000 gross square feet
- restaurant located within a commercial complex or hotel
- seminary, convent or monastery
- social service use
- utilities, as permitted by section 7-1200
- accessory uses, as permitted by section 7-100
Conditional / special use35
- animal care facility with overnight accommodation, if located in a commercial complex
- co-living dwelling, not to exceed two units
- restaurant
- outdoor garden center
- outdoor market
- outdoor dining on private property
- valet parking
- any use with live entertainment
- automobile service station
- automobile and trailer rental or sales area
- food and beverage production exceeding 5,000 square feet, which includes a retail component
- building materials storage and sales
- bus shelter on private property
- catering operation
- congregate housing facility
- continuum of care facility
- day labor agency
- drive through facility
- fraternal or private club
- funeral home
- glass shop
- laundry, dry cleaning operation
- light assembly, service and crafts
- light automobile repair
- motor vehicle parking or storage for more than 20 vehicles
- medical care facility
- nursing or convalescent home or hospice
- parcel delivery
- private school, academic, with more than 20 students on the premises at any one time
- public building
- recreation and entertainment use, outdoor
- research and testing laboratory
- retail shopping establishment, larger than 20,000 gross square feet
- storage buildings and warehouses, not to include freight distribution centers
- wholesale business
Extracted standards
13 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- Maximum building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.50 ft
The maximum permitted height of a building is 50 feet.
Other
Up to four auxiliary dwelling units are permitted and shall be categorized as nonresidential for the purpose of applying the area and bulk regulations of this zone. Such dwellings shall comply with section 8-200(A)(16) for parking and where parking is required spaces may be compact size or tandem. Auxiliary dwellings are allowed behind a first floor commercial use, if the depth of the building is more than 50 feet measured from the front building wall and the building is setback no further than 30 feet from front property line.
- Co-living dwellings
Up to two co-living dwellings, shall be categorized as nonresidential for the purpose of applying the area and bulk regulations of this zone, and each such co-living dwelling shall provide the parking required under section 8-200(A)(22). For proposals with greater than two co-living dwellings, each will be counted as a dwelling unit subject to the same area and bulk regulations as multi-unit dwellings in this zone.
- Day careDay careSupervised care for children or adults during part of the day. pick-up/drop-off plan
A day care center shall submit for the director's review a pick-up and drop-off plan that adequately ensures the safe transfer of children and creates minimal impact on pedestrian and vehicular traffic. The day care center must obtain approval of the plan prior to opening its place of business.
- All operations enclosed
All operations, including storage, shall be conducted within a completely enclosed building with the exception of outdoor uses pursuant to this section 4-300 and City Code section 5-2-29, as applicable.
- Front yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. contextual
For each residential use, the required front yard shall be between the range established by the front yards within the contextual block face. If the minimum front yard, including the front yard of the property in question, within this range exceeds 20 feet, a residential use shall provide a front yard of at least 20 feet.
- Maximum residential FARFloor area ratio (FAR)Total floor area divided by lot area — an FAR of 2.0 permits 20,000 sq ft of floor on a 10,000 sq ft lot.0.75 ratio
The maximum permitted floor area ratio for residential uses is .75, not to exceed a maximum of 22 units for each acre for townhouse development, except that for single-unit, two-unit, and townhouse dwellings within the Old and Historic Alexandria and Parker-Gray Districts only, the maximum permitted floor area ratio is 1.50 not to exceed a maximum of 30 dwelling units for each acre.
- Noxious uses prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
No use shall be conducted in any manner which would render it noxious or offensive by reason of dust, refuse matter, odor, smoke, gas, fumes, noise, vibration or glare.
- Open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. percentage35 pct
Each residential use shall provide 35 percent of the area of the lot as open and usable space, the location and shape of which shall be subject to the director's determination that it is functional and usable space for residents, visitors and other persons.
- Rear yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. ratio
Each residential use shall provide a rear yard based on a 1:1 setback ratio and a minimum of eight feet.
- Side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. ratio
Each single-unit, two-unit, and townhouse dwelling shall provide two side yards, each based on a setback ratio of 1:3 and a minimum of eight feet. For townhouse dwellings, the side yard requirement shall only apply to interior end lots wider than 25 feet. Each multi-unit dwelling shall provide two side yards, each based on a setback ratio of 1:2 and a minimum of 16 feet. No side yards shall be required on lots less than 25 feet wide.
- Tobacco proximity restriction
Retail shopping establishments with a principal use selling tobacco products, nicotine vapor products, alternative nicotine products, or hemp products intended for smoking are prohibited on property within 1,000 linear feet of a child day care center, or a public or private academic early childhood, elementary, middle, or high school.
The placement or construction of items that block the visibility through windows of the interior of the commercial space from the street and sidewalk, including, but not limited to, walls, window film, storage cabinets, carts, shelving, boxes, coat racks, storage bins, and closets, shall be prohibited. All windows shall remain transparent.
From the ordinance
The CSL zone is intended to provide for light service and industrial uses compatible in operations and character with nearby residential neighborhoods and properties.
Use details
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"conditional_uses": [
"animal care facility with overnight accommodation, other than pursuant to 4-302.1",
"co-living dwelling, other than pursuant to section 4-302.1",
"outdoor dining on private property, other than pursuant to sections 4-302 and 4-302.1",
"outdoor market, other than pursuant to section 4-302.1",
"outdoor garden center, other than pursuant to section 4-302.1"
]
}
}