Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right35
- Automobile and light vehicle dealerships and retail sales establishments
- Automobile and light vehicle repair establishments
- Banks and financial institutions
- Business services and office supply establishments
- Car washes
- Churches and places of worship
- Convenience stores
- Fast-food restaurants
- Funeral homes
- Gasoline sales establishments
- Health club, spa or fitness center
- Hospitals and health care facilities with inpatient services
- Hotels and motels
- Laundromats/dry cleaners
- Light intensity wholesale trade establishments
- Medical offices and outpatient care facilities
- Mini-storage warehouses
- Movie theaters
- Offices (general and professional)
- Parking lots
- Personal service establishments
- Private post office and delivery service
- Public uses
- Repair service establishments
- Restaurants
- Retail sales and leasing establishments
- Schools, colleges and universities
- Seasonal retail uses
- Temporary retail sales
- Exterminator
- Bicycle shop
- Adult day support services
- Child therapeutic day support services
- Contractor's offices and shops
- Cannabis dispensing facility
Conditional / special use29
- Auction establishments
- Bed and breakfast, inn or tourist home
- Bus stations
- Commercial recreation facilities (indoor and outdoor)
- Conference centers
- Day care centers (adult and child)
- Kennels, commercial
- Light warehousing uses related to an adjunct retail use
- Drive-in movie theaters
- Parking garages and structures
- Pet clinics
- Plant nurseries
- Public utilities
- Research and development activities
- Schools, colleges and universities
- Taxidermists
- Uses with lot frontage on the Dan River
- Vehicle sale, rental and ancillary service establishments, including mobile homes
- Veterinary clinics
- Caretaker's residence
- Homeless shelter
- Microbrewery or micro-winery
- Wholesale sales
- Indoor shooting facilities
- Distillery
- Urban agriculture
- Contractor's offices and shops with storage yards
- Heavy equipment sales, rental, and servicing
- Automobile salvage and other salvage yards
Extracted standards
17 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Design
- Gasoline pump islands treated as principal structure
Gasoline pump islands, canopies and structural elements shall be governed by the same regulations as applied to a principal structure.
Environmental
- Maximum percentage of lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built. in wetlands or water features25 pct
No HR-C District lot shall be designed or employed for use in which an area more than 25% of the prescribed minimum lot area is comprised of either of the following physical land units: (a) wetlands or (b) water features.
Other
- Geotechnical report required for shrink/swell soils
Any subdivision or lot which is proposed to be developed on shrink/swell soils shall require a geotechnical report to be submitted with the preliminary plat and plans.
- Landscaping regulations apply
Refer to Landscaping and Screening Regulations for parking lot landscaping, rear lot screening, buffer yards, and related landscape architecture provisions.
- Retail over 60,000 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. requires special use permitConditional useAllowed only after a discretionary approval — usually a public hearing and a board vote.
Large-scale individual retailers in excess of 60,000 per establishment (typically referred to as 'big boxes' or 'superstores') shall require a special use permit.
- Maximum number of curb cuts per right-of-way2 count
A freestanding use shall have no more than two curb cuts on any single right-of-way, and such curb cuts shall have a minimum distance of 100 feet between them.
- Maximum outdoor storage/display area15 pct
The outdoor area devoted to storage, loading and display of retail goods shall be limited to a maximum 15% of the net developable lot area.
- Minimum curb cutGrading (cut & fill)Reshaping land by removing earth (cut) or adding it (fill), often capped by volume. distance from intersecting street right-of-way75 ft
On a corner lot, no curb cut shall be located closer than 75 feet to the right-of-way line extended from the intersecting street.
- Minimum curb cutGrading (cut & fill)Reshaping land by removing earth (cut) or adding it (fill), often capped by volume. distance from side/rear lot line20 ft
No curb cut shall be located closer than 20 feet to a side or rear lot line, unless a common curb cut serves adjacent uses, and in no instance shall the distance between separate curb cuts serving adjacent uses be less than 60 feet.
- Minimum frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street. landscaped buffer5 ft
There shall be a minimum landscaped buffer strip of 5 feet in depth along all HR-C District property frontage. No parking is permitted within the buffer strip.
- Minimum setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from residential districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2. boundary30 ft
Where a lot is contiguous to property located in a residential district, all buildings shall have a minimum setback of 30 feet from common property lines.
- Refuse enclosure required
All refuse shall be contained in completely enclosed facilities. Refuse containers and refuse storage shall be located in a paved area and screened from public view by means of fences, wall or landscaping.
- Shopping centers not intended
The HR-C District is not intended to be applied to shopping centers.
- Site plan approval required
All uses shall be subject to site plan approval.
- Stormwater basins may count toward open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted.
Stormwater management basins and structures and BMP facilities may be counted towards the minimum open space requirement provided that these basins, structures, and facilities include the appropriate landscaping and maintenance in accordance with the Landscape and Screening Regulations.
Overlay
- FloodplainFloodplainLand expected to flood at a stated frequency, where building carries extra conditions. overlayOverlay districtA second set of rules laid over the base district, adding requirements without replacing it. applies
Refer to the Floodplain Zoning Overlay District, where applicable.
Signage
- Sign regulations apply
Refer to Sign Regulations for signage regulations.
From the ordinance
Maximum building height: 50 feet. Maximum floor area ratio: 0.50.