Alexandria, Virginia · General provision

Section 4-700 (CR Zone)

Regional CommercialAll Alexandria districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA40 acMAX HEIGHT77 ftMAX FAR1
Plan view of the district’s stated lot requirements. Solid line: the property line. Dashed: the setback lines the ordinance imposes; a building must stay inside the tinted envelope. Drawn from the figures extracted below — illustrative, not a survey.

Uses

Extracted standards

4 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.

Design

  • Window visibility

    The placement or construction of items that block the visibility through windows of the interior of the commercial space from the street and sidewalk ... shall be prohibited. All windows shall remain transparent.

Other

  • A day care center shall submit for the director's review a pick-up and drop-off plan that adequately ensures the safe transfer of children and creates minimal impact on pedestrian and vehicular traffic.

  • All operations within enclosed building

    All operations, including storage, shall be conducted within a completely enclosed building with the exception of outdoor uses pursuant to this section 4-700 and City Code section 5-2-29, as applicable.

  • Tobacco retail proximity to schools

    Retail shopping establishments with a principal use selling tobacco products ... are prohibited on property within 1,000 linear feet of a child day care center, or a public or private academic early childhood, elementary, middle, or high school.

From the ordinance

The maximum permitted floor area ratio is 1.0. ... The maximum permitted height of a building is 77 feet ... No site shall be zoned to CR unless it contains a minimum of 40 acres of land and no development proposal shall be approved unless it can accommodate 500,000 square feet of gross leasable floor space.
Section 4-700 (CR Zone)