Alexandria, Virginia · General provision

Section 4-700

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA40 acMAX HEIGHT77 ftMAX FAR1
Plan view of the district’s stated lot requirements. Solid line: the property line. Dashed: the setback lines the ordinance imposes; a building must stay inside the tinted envelope. Drawn from the figures extracted below — illustrative, not a survey.

Uses

Extracted standards

4 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.

Design

Other

  • 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.

  • 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 4-700 and City Code section 5-2-29, as applicable.

  • Tobacco retail proximity

    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.

From the ordinance

The CR zone is intended to provide areas suitable for large scale shopping centers serving regional needs.
Section 4-700