Dimensional standards
Lot
Height & bulk
- Minimum landscaping
- 15%
Uses
Permitted by right29
- planned shopping center
- retail sales establishment
- automobile dealership
- bank
- financial institution
- business service establishment
- office supply establishment
- convenience store
- church
- place of worship
- fast food restaurant
- health club
- spa
- fitness center
- hotel
- motel
- laundromat
- dry cleaner
- movie theater
- office
- patio dining
- personal service establishment
- public use
- restaurant
- seasonal retail use
- temporary retail use
- bicycle shop
- adult day support service
- child therapeutic day support service
Conditional / special use31
- shopping center (over 200,000 sq ft)
- automobile repair establishment
- car wash
- commercial recreation facility
- conference center
- funeral home
- gasoline sales establishment
- golf course
- country club
- hospital
- medical care facility
- parking garage
- parking structure
- parking lot
- plant nursery
- private club
- lodge
- private post office
- delivery service establishment
- repair service establishment
- research and development activity
- retail business with Dan River frontage
- school
- college
- university
- outdoor storage/display use
- veterinary clinic
- day care center
- microbrewery
- micro-winery
- distillery
Extracted standards
20 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Business services enclosed
All business services and storage shall be conducted within the principal structure which is to be completely enclosed, unless otherwise provided by special use permit.
- Curb cutGrading (cut & fill)Reshaping land by removing earth (cut) or adding it (fill), often capped by volume. distance from corner75 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 distance between curb cuts for freestanding use100 ft
such curb cuts shall have a minimum distance of 100 feet between them.
- Minimum distance between curb cuts60 ft
in no instance shall the distance between separate curb cuts serving adjacent uses be less than 60 feet.
- 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.
there shall be a minimum landscaped buffer strip of 10 feet in depth along all PS-C District property frontage.
- Geotechnical report 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.
- Maximum by-rightBy rightPermitted outright: if the plans meet the written rules, permission cannot be withheld. shopping center GFA200,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
the maximum size of the PS-C District shopping center, as permitted by-right, should not exceed a total gross floor area of 200,000 square feet (inclusive of all planned buildings) or a total site size of fifteen (15) acres
- Maximum by-rightBy rightPermitted outright: if the plans meet the written rules, permission cannot be withheld. shopping center site size15 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
or a total site size of fifteen (15) acres
- Maximum 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 individual use GFA without special permit60,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Individual commercial or business uses which exceed 60,000 square feet of floor area shall require a special use permit.
- 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 and shall provide screening as indicated on an approved site plan.
- Maximum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built. in wetlands/water features25 pct
No PS-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 and (b) water features.
- Minimum PS-C districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2. size4 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
Minimum PS-C district size: 4 acres.
- Minimum landscaped open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted.15 pct
Fifteen percent (15%) of the site shall be landscaped open space.
- Refuse enclosure
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.
- 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-2.40 ft
Where a lot in the PS-C District is contiguous to property located in a residential district, all buildings shall have a minimum setback of 40 feet from common property lines.
- Site plan approval
All uses shall be subject to site plan approval.
Setback
- Rear setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. when adjacent to residential40 ft
Rear yard: 20 feet, provided that if side yard is adjacent to a residential district or right-of-way contiguous thereto, the side yard shall be 40 feet.
- Side setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. when abutting residential60 ft
Unless the property's interior or street side yard abuts a residential zoning district, then the required setback is 60 feet.
From the ordinance
Maximum building height: 50 feet. Minimum yard requirements: front yard 40 feet, interior and street side yards 40 feet, rear yard 20 feet.