Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
Servicing
- Geographic extent
- Located in close proximity to high-capacity electric generation and transmission facilities, natural gas lines, and navigable waterways.
Uses
Permitted by right16
- Utility service/minor
- Business or trade school
- Educational facility
- Science and technology center
- Research, experimental, and technology center
- Construction office, temporary
- Office, general
- Contractor's yard
- Data warehouse center
- Energy storage facility
- Flex industrial
- Laboratory
- Outdoor storage, construction material (temporary)
- Renewable energy generation facility
- Warehousing and distribution
- Water storage tank
Conditional / special use7
Accessory1
Extracted standards
6 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Lighting
- Exterior lighting minimal impact
Exterior lighting in the ET district must be established with minimal impact to neighboring properties and the regional skyline.
Other
- Exception for accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.
An exception may be granted by the board of supervisors for structures that are associated with an accessory use, provided that the applicant proves no material-adverse visual impact.
- Minimum districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2. size500 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
Minimum district size: 500 acres of contiguous land.
- Streets public unless approved private
Streets in the ET district shall be public in accordance with VDOT and county standards unless private streets are approved by the board of supervisors.
- Screening of structures to avoid visual impact
All structures must be sufficiently screened... such that structures will not create a material-adverse visual impact on neighboring properties, the James River, or historic sites.
- SetbacksSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. established in master planComprehensive planThe long-range policy document zoning is meant to implement; it is not itself binding law.
There shall be no minimum setback requirements for development in the ET district; however, setback requirements shall be specifically established during the review and approval of the master plan.
From the ordinance
The purpose of the emerging technologies (ET) district is to permit master planned developments... Maximum height of any structure shall be 75 feet. There shall be no minimum setback requirements.