Botetourt County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 25-425(3), 25-427(3), 25-428(1)(c), 25-428(3)(a)2, 25-429, 25-430, 25-430.1, 25-430.2, 25-430.3

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETbuildable areaFront 25 ftMAX HEIGHT60 ftMAX DENSITY26 du/ac
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

Conditional / special use4

Prohibited3

  • Trailer, recreational vehicles, modular homes and mobile home sales, and rental, including towing service and auto salvage or junk operations
  • Plumbing supplies storage
  • Minor manufacture of musical instruments, toys, novelties and rubber and metal stamps

Extracted standards

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

Height

Other

  • Bicycle capacity as percentage of required vehicle parking5 pct

    The total required bicycle capacity of all racks shall equal at least five (5) percent of all required off-street vehicle parking

  • Bicycle rack distance from primary entrance200 ft

    permanent anchored bicycle racks shall be provided within two hundred (200) feet of the primary public entrance.

  • Drive-through facilities are prohibited between the building and the public right-of-way, except where a drive-through facility is on a lot adjacent to four (4) public rights-of-way.

  • Planted evergreen shrubs shall have a minimum height of twenty-four (24) inches at the time of planting

  • have a minimum mature height of thirty-six (36) inches

  • Landscaping, buffering, and screening requirements apply

    The requirements of article IV, division 4, landscaping, buffering, and screening, shall apply to all developments in the Gateway Crossing Overlay District.

  • Maximum entrances per street for lots fronting state road1 count

    all lots fronting on a state road in the Gateway Crossing Overlay District shall have no more than one (1) entrance per street or road.

  • Minimum sidewalk width5 ft

    Sidewalks shall be a minimum of five (5) feet in width.

  • No square footage maximum per lot for signs

    there shall be no square footage maximums per lot as stated in subsection 25-462(a)

  • Stacking space minimum dimensions10 ft width by 20 ft length

    Each stacking space shall have minimum dimensions of ten (10) feet in width by twenty (20) feet in length.

  • Transparent windows/doors as percentage of wall area20 pct

    the façade shall contain transparent windows or door openings covering a minimum of twenty (20) percent to a maximum of seventy (70) percent of the wall area

Parking

Setback

From the ordinance

Uses permitted by-right: Commercial uses as allowed in B-2; Conference center; Theatre, indoor; Restaurants; Hospitals; ...
Sec. 25-425(3), 25-427(3), 25-428(1)(c), 25-428(3)(a)2, 25-429, 25-430, 25-430.1, 25-430.2, 25-430.3

Parking requirements

{
  "general": "10% reduction allowed",
  "on-street": "counts toward requirement",
  "restaurant": "1 per 100 sq ft GFA"
}