Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right35
- accessory uses
- automotive repair services, major
- amusement enterprises
- art or photography studios
- automobile service stations
- blacksmith shop, welding, or machine shop
- bottling plants or distribution operations
- building and contractor's storage and equipment yards
- bus terminal facilities
- car washes
- childcare centers
- clinics and doctors' offices
- commercial communications equipment
- funeral homes
- government facilities
- hydroponic agriculture
- indoor sport facilities
- libraries
- lumber and/or building materials sales
- manufacturing, custom
- manufacturing, light
- motor vehicle sales
- museums, art galleries, civic or cultural centers, historic exhibits
- offices
- parking facilities, public or private
- pharmaceuticals, diagnostic testing and other laboratories
- plant nurseries
- printing, bookbinding, and publishing
- public parks
- rehabilitation facilities
- religious assembly
- veterinary hospital or animal shelter for small animals
- warehousing, mini-storage, or warehouse units totaling less than 15,000 square feet floor gross floor area
- winery, brewery, or distillery
- utilities, public
Conditional / special use10
- commercial retail
- commercial services
- data processing facilities
- eating establishments
- eating establishment, with drive through
- lodges
- private parks, playgrounds and other outdoor recreation, and open space areas
- satellite dishes
- schools
- utilities, private
Extracted standards
18 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Environmental
- Air pollution compliance
All industrial uses shall comply with the requirements of the Virginia State Air Pollution Control Laws.
Lighting
- Maximum brightness near residential districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.150 fl
no light source with an intrinsic brightness level of 150 footlamberts or greater shall be located within 500 feet of any residential district from which such light would be visible
- Maximum brightness visible from adjoining properties350 fc
no light emitted from the operation or activity and visible from adjoining properties shall have an intrinsic brightness level exceeding 350 footcandles.
- Maximum illumination at commercial/industrial lot line1 fc
nor 1.0 footcandles at any lot line adjoining a commercial or industrial district
- Maximum illumination at residential lot line0.1 fc
Light emitted for any operation or activity shall not exceed an illumination level of 0.1 footcandles at any lot line adjoining a residential district
Noise
- Noise limit at commercial/industrial lot line75 dBA-L10
nor a level of 75 dBA-L10 at any lot adjoining commercial or industrial districts.
- Noise limit at residential lot line65 dBA-L2
The noise generated by the use shall not exceed a level of 65 dBA-L2 at any lot line adjoining a residential district
Other
- Brick requirement for warehousing
Brick shall be required on all sides of units that will be visible from the public right-of-way of streets.
- Enclosed building requirement
All business, servicing, storage, or processing shall be conducted within a completely enclosed building except where the nature of the activity makes it impossible.
- Enclosure requirement near residential
The following uses are permitted, provided all operations are conducted in a building which shall not have any opening other than a stationary window within 100 feet of a residential district and which shall not store or otherwise maintain any parts or waste material outside such building.
- Maximum front yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. encroachment6 ft
Balconies, stoops, stairs, open porches or decks, bay windows, and awnings are permitted to encroach into the front yard setback area no more than six feet
- Front setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for warehousing25 ft
The front setback shall be 25 feet with required landscaping
- Maximum vibration in commercial districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.0.05 in/sec
0.05 inches per second in any commercial district
- Maximum vibration at lot line0.1 in/sec
Maximum vibration, as expressed in terms of the vector sum particle velocity as measured by a three component measuring system capable of simultaneous measurement of vibration in three mutually perpendicular directions, shall not exceed 0.1 inches per second at the lot line of the proposed use
- Maximum vibration in residential districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.0.02 in/sec
and 0.02 inches per second in any residential district.
- Maximum rear yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. encroachment14 ft
the aforementioned as well as attached garages and carports, into the rear yard setback area no more than 14 feet.
- Side and rear setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for warehousing20 ft
Side and rear setbacks shall be 20 feet
- Uncovered parking setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.0 ft
Uncovered parking lots and spaces, sidewalks and walkways, etc., shall have no minimum yard setback.
From the ordinance
The minimum lot area shall be 25,000 square feet. The minimum lot width at the setback line shall be 100 feet for lots with frontage on one public street and 125 feet for corner lots fronting on two or more public streets. The maximum percentage of any lot that may be covered by the footprint of a building shall be 40 percent. The maximum height of any building shall be 50 feet.