Dimensional standards
Lot
Servicing
- Geographic extent
- Residential zoning districts
Extracted standards
7 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Lot
- Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built. for day-care with 50 or fewer children20,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
All day-care facilities in residential zoning districts shall be required to have a minimum lot size of twenty thousand (20,000) square feet for day-care operations with fifty (50) children or fewer
- Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built. for day-care with more than 50 children40,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
forty thousand (40,000) square feet for day-care operations with more than fifty (50) children
Other
- Special permit required
In assessing the request for a special use permit to conduct day-care operations in residential zoning districts, the Council shall consider and may require the availability of safe on-site drop-off and pickup areas, outdoor play areas not located in the facility's front yard, fenced play areas and screening or noise buffers for adjacent properties.
Use
- Allowed facility types for day-care
Day-care operations in residential districts shall be restricted to schools, churches, lodges, hospitals, rest, convalescent or nursing homes, offices or halls which are otherwise permitted by right in the respective residential district in question, or any of the aforementioned facilities which are currently in existence as a nonconforming use, or any of the aforementioned facilities which have previously been approved for non-day-care purposes by special permit.
- State licensing required
All day-care operations and day-care facilities shall be licensed by the Commonwealth of Virginia in accordance with the provisions of Code of Virginia § 63.1-196, as amended, unless otherwise specifically exempted from such licensing requirements under provisions of the Virginia State Code.
- Maximum children per day-care facility100 children
All day-care operations in residential zoning districts shall be restricted to not more than one hundred (100) children per day-care facility.
- Day-care not permitted in single-familySingle-family dwellingOne dwelling unit on its own lot, usually detached from its neighbours. or multifamilyMultifamily dwellingA building of four or more dwelling units. Where zoning is most restrictive. dwellings
Day-care operations in residential districts shall not be permitted in single-family or multifamily residential dwellings.
From the ordinance
The following provisions shall apply to day care and day-care facilities located in residential zoning districts: A. All day-care operations in residential zoning districts shall be restricted to not more than one hundred (100) children per day-care facility. ... E. All day-care facilities in residential zoning districts shall be required to have a minimum lot size of twenty thousand (20,000) square feet for day-care operations with fifty (50) children or fewer and forty thousand (40,000) square feet for day-care operations with more than fifty (50) children.