Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right46
- home occupation
- multifamily dwelling (upper floors or basement)
- multifamily dwelling in mixed-use development (ground floor with criteria)
- administrative services
- community recreation
- cultural services
- day care center
- home for adults
- life care facility
- nursing home
- open space
- post office
- public parks and recreational areas
- public recreation assembly
- religious assembly
- safety services
- shelter
- utility services minor
- financial institutions (without drive-through)
- general office (above ground floor)
- medical office (above ground floor)
- general office for educational facilities
- brewpub
- clinic
- commercial indoor entertainment
- commercial indoor amusement
- communication services
- consumer repair services
- funeral home
- neighborhood convenience store
- parking facility (with conditions)
- pawn shop
- personal improvement services
- personal services
- public farmers market
- restaurant fast food
- restaurant general
- restaurant small
- retail sales
- small-scale brewery cidery or seltzery
- small-scale distillery
- small-scale winery or meadery
- specialty shop
- studio fine arts
- veterinary hospital/clinic
- accessory structures
Conditional / special use21
- club
- educational facilities primary/secondary
- public assembly
- utility services major
- automobile repair
- bed and breakfast
- commercial indoor sports and recreation
- dance hall
- expansion of small-scale brewery etc
- gasoline station
- grocery store
- hotel/motel
- itinerant vendor
- outpatient substance abuse treatment center
- financial institution (with drive-through)
- general office (ground floor)
- medical office (ground floor)
- laboratory
- research and development
- broadcasting and communication facility
- townhouse or multifamily on ground floor (in historic overlay with criteria)
Extracted standards
4 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Density
- Maximum density48 bedrooms/acreacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
Maximum residential density: Forty-eight (48) bedrooms per acre.
Density bonus
- Density bonusDensity bonusExtra units allowed above the base cap in exchange for something — usually affordable homes. for historicHistoric districtAn area where exterior changes need design review to protect its character. rehabilitation
A density bonus, as authorized by Virginia Code §15.2-2286(A)(10)(a), is allowed when the project includes the retention and rehabilitation of a contributing structure in the Historic District...
Height
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. via conditional useConditional useAllowed only after a discretionary approval — usually a public hearing and a board vote. permit100 ft
Additional height up to a maximum of one hundred (100) feet may be requested through the Conditional Use permit process.
Other
- Each lot must abut a public street
Each lot must abut a public street.
From the ordinance
Each lot must abut a public street. Maximum residential density: Forty-eight (48) bedrooms per acre.