§ 165-504.01 - 165-504.07
Dimensional standards
Density
Height & bulk
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
- Three-family
- by_right
- Four-plus family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right42
- Colleges, Universities, Professional Schools, and Junior Colleges
- Libraries
- Pharmaceutical and Medicine Manufacturing
- Scientific Research and Development Services including Testing Agencies
- Food and Beverage Retailers excluding Fruit and Vegetable Stands and Vending Machine Operators
- Food Services and Drinking Places excluding Mobile Food Services
- Health and Personal Care Retailers
- Finance and Insurance, Holding, and Office of Real Estate
- Hotel and Motels, including Rooming and Boarding Houses, and Dormitories; excluding Workers Camps
- Coin Operated Laundries, Drycleaners, and Linen Supplies
- Personal Care Services
- Photocopying and Duplicating Services
- Medical Equipment Rental and Leasing
- Data Entry, Data Processing, Data Verification, and Optical Scanning Data Services
- Product Sterilization Services
- Electronic and Precision Equipment Repair and Maintenance
- Physical Fitness Facilities
- Civic and Social Organizations
- Ambulatory Health Care Services, Hospitals, Nursing and Residential Care Facilities
- Continuing-Care Retirement Community (CCRC) (as defined)
- Adult Day-Care Centers
- Child Day-Care Services
- Public Buildings, including Social Service Offices
- Pharmaceutical Machinery Manufacturing
- Medical Equipment and Supplies Manufacturing
- Medical, Dental, and Hospital Equipment Merchant Wholesalers
- Ophthalmic Goods Merchant Wholesaler
- Drugs and Druggists' Sundries Merchant Wholesalers
- Dormitories, Medical and Allied Health (as defined)
- Halfway House (as defined)
- Treatment Home (as defined)
- Family Care Home (as defined)
- Group Home (as defined)
- Protected Populations Home (as defined)
- Places of Religious Worship
- Fire Protection
- Conference/Event Centers (as defined)
- Fleet Maintenance Facility
- On-Site Utility Systems (as defined)
- Telecommunications Towers and Facilities (as defined)
- Warehousing, Medical and Allied Health Services (as defined)
- Wellness Centers (as defined)
Extracted standards
20 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Density
- Maximum residential density for residential care facilities10 du/acdu/acreDwelling units per acre — the number of homes allowed on each acre of land.
Maximum residential density shall not exceed 10 units per acre, provided the following: ...
Height
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. for hospitals and specified uses90 ft
The maximum structural height for hospitals, office buildings, and all land use permitted under § 165-504.02B, shall be 90 feet.
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. for other uses35 ft
The maximum structural height for all other land uses permitted in this Part 504 shall be 35 feet.
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. for residential care facilities70 ft
The maximum structural height for residential care facilities, nursing and personal care facilities, dormitories, garden apartments and automobile parking structures shall be 70 feet.
Other
- AgriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them. buffer100 ft
A 100-foot buffer adjacent to a parcel whose primary use is agriculture. A twenty-foot landscaped easement...
- CCRC building spacing
Residential housing units within a continuing-care retirement community, to include single-family small lot, duplex and multiplex, shall have a minimum building spacing of 10 feet between units and no building can be within 50 feet of the perimeter boundary of the development.
- Clear zone for emergency access
A clear zone void of structures, signage, vegetation, and berms shall be established in areas determined by the Fire Marshal to ensure appropriate emergency access... These identified areas shall begin at a distance of 25 feet from the structure and shall have a minimum width of 20 feet.
- Entrance spacing250 ft
Commercial entrances for permitted support services and entrances for related residential developments on urban collector streets shall have a minimum spacing requirement of 250 feet or minimum VDOT spacing, whichever is greater.
- Front setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for residential uses
All permitted related residential uses and continuing care retirement communities shall have a minimum front yard setback of 25 feet from any public urban local street and a front yard setback of 20 feet from any private urban local road.
- Front setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for support services
All permitted educational, research, professional, commercial, and other related support services shall have a minimum front yard setback of 50 feet from any urban collector street and a minimum front yard setback of 35 feet from any urban local street.
- Internal residential separation buffer25 ft
An internal residential separation buffer between detached, semidetached, and all other related residential land uses containing a twenty-five-foot buffer with a single row of evergreen trees on ten-foot centers...
- Internal separation buffer50 ft
A fifty-foot internal separation buffer between all support service land uses and related residential land uses meeting the vegetative planting and earth berm requirements...
- Maximum FARFloor area ratio (FAR)Total floor area divided by lot area — an FAR of 2.0 permits 20,000 sq ft of floor on a 10,000 sq ft lot. for hospitals and specified uses2 ratio
Hospitals, office buildings, conference/events centers, wellness centers, and all land use permitted under § 165-504.02B, Educational support services, shall be allowed to develop a maximum floor-to-area ratio (FAR) of two.
- Maximum FARFloor area ratio (FAR)Total floor area divided by lot area — an FAR of 2.0 permits 20,000 sq ft of floor on a 10,000 sq ft lot. for other uses1 ratio
All permitted land uses other than those described in § 165-504.03B providing support services to this district shall be allowed to develop a maximum floor-to-area ratio (FAR) of one.
- Minimum districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2. size20 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
All parcels that are zoned MS (Medical Support) District shall contain a minimum of 20 acres.
- Minimum open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. for residential parcels30 pct
30% of the total site area of individual parcels that are subdivided for related residential land uses.
- Minimum open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. for support services parcels25 pct
Twenty-five percent of the total site area of individual parcels that are subdivided for support services
- Orchard buffer200 ft
A 200-foot buffer adjacent to a parcel whose primary use is orchard. A forty-foot landscaped easement...
- Perimeter buffer50 ft
A fifty-foot perimeter buffer from all adjoining parcels. The first 25 feet of this buffer area, measured from the adjoining property line, shall provide vegetative plantings...
Parking
Parking lots shall be set back a minimum of 20 feet from urban collector streets and shall be set back a minimum of 10 feet from urban local streets.
From the ordinance
The MS (Medical Support) District is intended to provide for areas to support hospitals, medical centers, medical offices, clinics, and schools of medicine.