Sec. 10-3-58.1-58.6
Dimensional standards
Density
Height & bulk
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
- Three-family
- by_right
- Four-plus family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right22
- Single-family detached dwellings
- Duplex dwellings
- Townhouse dwellings (3 to 8 dwelling units)
- Multiple-family dwellings
- Dwelling units occupied by a single family or not more than 2 unrelated individuals
- Home occupations
- Retail stores, convenience shops, personal service establishments, restaurants (excluding drive-through unless SUP), food and drug stores
- Medical clinics, governmental, business and professional offices, financial institutions
- General service or repair shops (all storage/activities within building)
- Theaters, museums, galleries, places of assembly for entertainment or education
- Religious, educational, charitable and benevolent institutional uses (no housing facilities)
- Community buildings
- Public and private schools
- Child day care centers
- Adult day care centers
- Parks
- Common open space
- Public uses
- Accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental to permitted uses
- Parking lots and parking garages
- Small cell facilities
- Homestays
Conditional / special use9
- Private clubs and golf courses
- Home for the aged (max 3 non-family persons)
- Major family day home
- Short-term rentals
- Drive-through facility
- Reducing required parking areas (with open space set-aside)
- Public uses deviating from title 10, chapter 3
- Concealed wireless telecommunications facilities, industrial microcells, distributed antenna systems, macrocells
- Recovery residence of more than 8 adults
Accessory1
- Accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental to any permitted use
Prohibited1
- Telecommunications towers (except for Harrisonburg-Rockingham Emergency Communications Center up to 200 ft)
Extracted standards
12 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Environmental
- Steep slopeSteep slopeGround above a stated gradient, where building is restricted or barred. and floodplainFloodplainLand expected to flood at a stated frequency, where building carries extra conditions. protection
There shall be adequate area within the site to accommodate buildings, roads and parking areas with minimal impact on steep slopes and floodplains.
Other
- Amateur radio antenna exception
Private amateur radio antennas intended for public service and emergency use may exceed the height otherwise established so long as the height is justified for proper radio communications.
- Antenna heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. and location
Attached or detached private radio and television antennas, including dish antennas, shall not exceed the maximum height otherwise permitted in this district and shall not be permitted in front yards.
- Bicycle rack requirement1 rack per 100 spaces
Bicycle racks shall be included at appropriate locations and provided at a minimum of one (1) bicycle rack accommodating a minimum of four bicycles for every one hundred (100) off-street parking spaces.
- Bus shelters
Bus shelters shall be provided at designated transit stop locations as specified by the transportation department.
- Maximum dimension variation5 pct
For the purposes of provisions subsections 10-3-58.6(h) and (i) the ground dimension of any feature (length, width or area) shown on the master development plan, may vary up to five (5) percent of the scaled dimension provided that a written explanation of the variation, as well as a revised drawing of the master development plan reflecting and designating the refinement is submitted to the zoning administrator.
- Master development plan required
Applicants for the MX-U zoning district shall submit at rezoning a master development plan, showing and describing in map and text form: general layout of roads, housing areas, open space, parks, pedestrian and bicycle trails; general location and number of community building, school, day care, church and public use sites; description of housing types/lot configurations; description of all other uses; indication of environmentally sensitive areas (slopes exceeding 15%, streams, 100-year floodplains); proposed active recreation areas; general landscape plan; description of design principles.
- Maximum floorplate with approval60,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Buildings having a floor plate larger than twenty thousand (20,000) square feet, but no more than sixty thousand (60,000) square feet, may be approved as part of a master development plan for a MX-U planned community if the applicant demonstrates that the proposed building's design is compatible with adjacent development.
- Maximum building floorplate20,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Building floorplates shall not exceed twenty thousand (20,000) square feet, except as approved in the master development plan and subject to the standards in section 10-3-58.6(g).
- Minimum housing types2 types
At least two (2) types of residential housing types (single-family detached of varying lot sizes/configurations, single-family attached, multiple-family) shall be provided and no one (1) housing or lot size/configuration type may exceed a total of seventy (70) percent of all the residential units in the community.
- Property owners' association required
A property owners' association shall be established to provide for the ownership, care and maintenance of all common open space areas and other common facilities and improvements.
Parking
Off-street parking shall not be located between the street and the front building facade, and preferably sited to the rear of buildings. Off-street parking shall be screened to have minimal impact on the streetscape.
From the ordinance
The regulations set forth in this article or set forth elsewhere in this chapter when referred to in this article are the 'MX-U' Mixed Use Planned Community District Regulations.