Sec. 24-518 through 24-524
Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
- Three-family
- by_right
- Four-plus family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right73
- Apartments
- Group homes or residential facilities, for eight or fewer adults
- Group quarters
- Home care facilities
- Home occupations, as defined
- Independent living facilities
- Multi-family dwellings up to and including four dwelling units
- Multi-family dwellings more than four dwelling units
- Single-family dwellings
- Adult day care centers
- Antique shops
- Assisted living facilities
- Automobile rental
- Automobile repair and service including tire, transmission, glass, body and fender, and other automotive products sales (new and/or rebuilt) and service with major repair under cover and storage of parts and vehicle storage screened from adjacent property by landscaping and fencing
- Banks and other similar financial institutions
- Barber and beauty shops
- Business, professional and governmental offices
- Child day care centers
- Community recreation facilities, public or private, including parks, playgrounds, clubhouses, boating facilities, swimming pools, ball fields, tennis courts and other similar recreation facilities
- Continuing care retirement facilities
- Contractor offices, equipment storage yards, shops and warehouses with storage under cover or screened with landscaping and fencing from adjacent property
- Drug stores
- Dry cleaners and laundries
- Employment services or agencies
- Farmer's markets
- Feed, seed and farm supply stores
- Fish farming
- Funeral homes, cemeteries and memorial gardens
- Greenhouses and nurseries
- Health clubs, exercise clubs and fitness centers
- Hotels, motels, tourist homes and convention centers
- Indoor sport facilities
- Indoor theaters
- Janitorial service establishments
- Limousine service
- Lumber and building supply with storage limited to a fully enclosed building or screened with landscaping and fencing from adjacent property
- Medical offices
- Office supply stores, secretarial and duplicating services
- Parking lots and garages
- Photographer, picture, artist and sculptor stores and studios
- Plumbing and electrical supply with storage limited to a fully enclosed building or screened with landscaping and fencing from adjacent property
- Printing and publishing establishments
- Property maintenance facilities, sheds or garages
- Public billiard parlors, arcades, pool rooms, bowling alleys, dance halls and other indoor centers of amusement
- Rental of rooms to a maximum of three rooms
- Restaurants, tea rooms and taverns
- Retail food stores, bakeries and fish markets
- Security service offices
- Skilled nursing facilities (nursing homes)
- Taxi services
- Vehicle and trailer sales and service (with major repair limited to a fully enclosed building)
- Veterinary hospitals
- Fire stations
- Libraries
- Nonemergency medical transport
- Places of public assembly
- Post offices
- Schools
- Telephone exchanges and telephone switching stations
- Water impoundments, new or expansion of
- Food processing and storage, but not the slaughter of animals
- Heavy equipment sales and service, with major repair under cover or screened with landscaping and fencing from adjacent property
- Hospitals and mental health facilities
- Industrial and technical training schools
- Machinery sales and service with major repair under cover
- Manufacture and assembly of musical instruments, toys, novelties and rubber and metal stamps
- Manufacture, compounding, processing or packaging of cosmetic, toiletry and pharmaceutical products
- Manufacture of pottery and ceramic products, using kilns fired only by gas or electricity
- Manufacture or assembly of appliances, tools, firearms, hardware products and heating, cooling or ventilating equipment
- Manufacture or assembly of electronic instruments, electronic devices or electronic components
- Processing, assembly and manufacture of light industrial products or components, with all storage, processing, assembly and manufacture conducted indoors and under cover, with no dust, noise, odor or other objectionable effect
- Research, development and design facilities or laboratories
- Welding and machine shops with storage limited to a fully enclosed building or screened with landscaping and fencing from adjacent property
Conditional / special use19
- Group homes or residential facilities, for nine or more adults
- Campgrounds
- Fast food restaurants
- Flea markets
- Golf courses
- Marine or waterfront businesses to include the receipt, storage and transshipment of waterborne commerce, or seafood receiving, packing or distribution under cover or screened with landscaping and fencing from adjacent property
- Museums
- Rental of more than three rooms in a single-family dwelling unit
- Shooting ranges, indoor
- Theme parks
- Vape/smoke shop and vape/smoke lounge
- Wineries
- Heliports, helistops and accessory uses
- Petroleum storage
- Publicly owned solid waste container sites
- Resource recovery facilities
- Solid waste transfer stations
- Warehouse, storage and distribution centers with storage under cover or screened with landscaping and fencing from adjacent property
- Water well drilling establishments
Extracted standards
12 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Design
- Clustering
Dwelling units, regardless of structure type, shall be clustered or otherwise grouped to maximize the preservation of open space and other aesthetic amenities.
- Unified building design
Building design should be coordinated with regard to color, materials, architectural form and detailing to achieve design harmony, continuity, and horizontal and vertical relief and interest.
Projects shall include a unifying internal system of pedestrian-oriented paths, open spaces and walkways that function to organize and connect buildings.
Lighting
- Outdoor lighting
Outdoor lighting shall be provided as required by article II, division 7 of this chapter and the county subdivision ordinance.
Other
- Landscape area along rights-of-way
A landscape area shall be provided along right(s)-of-way in accordance with section 24-98.
- Landscaping
All landscaping and tree preservation shall be undertaken in accordance with article II, division 4 of this chapter and Chapter 23 of the county code, the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Ordinance.
Development within the mixed use districts shall provide usable open space area. The amount of open space shall be not less than ten percent of the developable area of the site.
- Pedestrian accommodation
Pedestrian accommodations shall be provided in accordance with Section 24-35.
- Perimeter buffer
A perimeter buffer shall be planned and maintained along the perimeter property lines of the development, except for areas adjacent to rights-of-way. The minimum perimeter buffer depth shall be in accordance with the table below.
- Recreation areas
Residential areas and mixed use structures and areas designated on the master plan shall be provided with a recreation area or areas adequate to meet the needs of the residents.
- Street improvements
All dedicated public streets shown on the development plan shall meet the design and construction requirements of the Virginia Department of Transportation's standards or the county subdivision ordinance, whichever is greater.
Signage
- Signs
All signs within a mixed use district shall comply with article II, division 3 of this chapter.
From the ordinance
Development within the mixed use districts shall provide usable open space area. The amount of open space shall be not less than ten percent of the developable area of the site.
Use details
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"dropped_conditions": {
"permitted_uses": [
"Retail and service stores, including the following stores: books, cabinet, candy, carpet, coin, department, dressmaking, florist, furniture, furrier, garden supply, greeting card, gunsmith (excluding shooting ranges), hardware, home appliance sales and service, ice cream, jewelry sales and service, locksmith, music and records, paint, pet, picture framing, plant supply, shoe, sporting goods, stamp, tailor, toys, travel bureau, upholstery, wearing apparel, and yard goods"
],
"conditional_uses": [
"Transmission pipelines (public or private), including pumping stations and accessory storage, for natural gas, propane gas, petroleum products, chemicals, slurry coal and any other gases, liquids or solids. However, extensions for private connections to existing pipelines, which are intended to serve an individual residential or commercial customer and which are accessory to existing or proposed development, are permitted generally and shall not require a special use permit",
"Water facilities (public or private), and sewer facilities (public), including, but not limited to, treatment plants, pumping stations, storage facilities and transmission mains, wells and associated equipment such as pumps to be owned and operated by political jurisdictions. However, the following are permitted generally and shall not require a special use permit: (a) Private connections to existing mains that are intended to serve an individual customer and that are accessory to existing or proposed development, with no additional connections to be made to the line; and (b) Distribution lines and local facilities within a development, including pump stations",
"Railroad facilities including tracks, bridges and stations. However, spur lines which are to serve and are accessory to existing or proposed development adjacent to existing railroad rights-of-way and track and safety improvements in existing railroad rights-of-way are permitted generally and shall not require a special use permit"
]
}
}