Article 3, Section O (LED-I)
Dimensional standards
Lot
Height & bulk
- Minimum landscaping
- 20%
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right21
- airport
- aircraft-related industry
- artisan/craftsman manufacturing
- banks and financial institutions
- telephone call center
- community facilities and uses
- corporate offices
- data storage and data processing center
- scientific research establishments
- manufacturing establishments (conforming to environmental standards)
- gasoline sales establishments
- health club, spa, or fitness center
- light manufacturing (incidental to primary use)
- light warehousing
- light wholesale trade
- mini-storage warehouses
- private post offices
- private training facilities
- public utilities and facilities
- veterinary hospitals
- exterminator
Conditional / special use19
- auto and light vehicle service establishments
- automobile salvage yards
- bus and railroad terminals
- communication towers and antennae
- contractor's office, shops and storage yards
- gasoline sales establishments (with indoor repair)
- heliports and helipads
- heavy equipment sales, rental, and servicing
- light manufacturing with screened outdoor storage
- light warehousing with screened outdoor storage
- light wholesale trade with screened outdoor storage
- retail sales in warehouse (with conditions)
- restaurant
- uses permitted in HR-C District
- uses requiring outdoor storage, loading, or display
- uses with lot frontage on the Dan River
- soap manufacture
- regional brewery
- commercial recreation facilities
Prohibited25
- acid manufacture
- animal slaughterhouse
- ammonia and chlorine manufacturing
- asphalt mixing plant
- blast furnace
- boiler works
- bulk storage of flammable materials
- concrete mixing and batching products
- coal, wood or wood distillation
- extraction and mining of rocks and minerals
- fertilizer, lime or cement manufacturing
- fireworks or explosives manufacturing
- herbicide manufacturing
- insecticide manufacturing
- metal foundries, smelting, processing, fabrication and storage
- private garbage incineration
- pesticide manufacturing
- petroleum, asphalt or related product refining
- private landfills
- rendering plants
- residential uses
- stockyards
- tanning and curing of skins
- nonconforming use expansion
- any similar injurious use
Extracted standards
18 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Design
- Roof mechanical equipment must be enclosed
No mechanical equipment, tank, duct, elevator enclosure, cooling tower, mechanical ventilator or air conditioner shall be erected, constructed, converted, established, altered or enlarged on the roof of any building, unless all such equipment and appurtenances are contained within a completely enclosed structure...
Environmental
- Environmental impact statement may be required
An environmental impact statement may be required for any permitted or special permit use.
Other
- Minimum distance from residential property for aircraft-related industries with >100 dB testing500 ft
Aircraft-related industries must be located at least 500′ from any residentially zoned property within the City of Danville if outside testing of materials that exceeds 100 decibels (dB) during normal operation is to be conducted.
- Corner lot curb cutGrading (cut & fill)Reshaping land by removing earth (cut) or adding it (fill), often capped by volume. distance from curb line60 ft
On a corner lot, no curb cut shall be located closer than 60 feet to the curb line extended from the intersecting public street.
- Curb cutGrading (cut & fill)Reshaping land by removing earth (cut) or adding it (fill), often capped by volume. distance from side or 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.
- General Development Plan and site plan required
All uses within the LED-I District shall require a General Development Plan for rezoning approval and a site plan for special permit or lot development approval.
- Minimum landscaped buffer strip along frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street.10 ft
there shall be a minimum landscaped buffer strip of 10 feet in depth along all LED-I District property frontage. No parking is permitted within the buffer strip.
- 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 percentage of dedicated open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. from restricted land types50 pct
no more than fifty (50) percent of the dedicated open space shall consist of land classified as 100 year stream valleys, wetlands, stormwater management and BMP facilities, slopes greater than thirty (30) percent and/or drainage easements.
- Maximum outdoor storage/loading/display area25 pct
Subject to special use permit approval, the outdoor areas of an LED-I use devoted to storage, loading, and display of goods shall be limited to a maximum 25% of the total lot area and as otherwise designated on an approved site plan.
- Maximum percentage of lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built. in wetlands/water features10 pct
No LED-I District lot shall be configured such that more than 10% of the prescribed minimum lot area is comprised of either of the following physical land units: (a) wetlands and (b) water features.
- Minimum districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2. size10 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
Minimum district size: 10 acres.
- Open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. and landscape plan required
An open space plan and landscape plan shall be submitted with applications for any land use governed by this district.
- All refuse shall be contained in completely enclosed facilities
All refuse shall be contained in completely enclosed facilities.
- 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. property lines75 ft
Where a lot is contiguous to property located in a residential district, all buildings shall have a minimum setback of 75 feet from common property lines.
- Geotechnical report required for shrink/swell soils
Any subdivision lot or other property which is proposed to be developed on shrink/swell soils shall require a geotechnical report to be submitted with the preliminary plat and plans.
- Side and rear yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. requirements may be waived where abutting railroad right-of-way
Side and rear yard requirements may be waived where a side or rear yard abuts a railroad right-of-way which is to be employed for use as a siding for the lot or a lot within the industrial park.
- Stormwater basins may count towards 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.
From the ordinance
Minimum lot area: 40,000 sq ft. Maximum building height: 60 ft. Maximum FAR: 0.50. Twenty percent of site shall be landscaped open space. Residential uses prohibited.