Sec. 24-536.5 through 24-536.9
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right23
- Vehicle and trailer sales and service (with major repair limited to a fully enclosed building)
- Veterinary hospitals
- Water well drilling establishments
- Nonemergency medical transport
- Places of public assembly
- Post offices
- Water impoundments, new or expansion of
- Timbering
- Wineries
- Food processing and storage, but not the slaughter of animals
- Industrial and technical training schools
- Laser technology production
- Manufacture and assembly of musical instruments, toys, novelties and rubber and metal stamps
- Manufacture, compounding, assembly or treatment of products made from previously prepared paper, plastic, metal, textiles, tobacco, wood, paint, fiber glass, glass, rubber, leather, cellophane, canvas, felt, fur, horn, wax, hair, and yarn
- Manufacture, compounding, processing or packaging of cosmetic, toiletry and pharmaceutical products
- Manufactured home or mobile home sales
- 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
- Warehouse, storage and distribution centers with storage under cover or screened from adjacent property with landscaping and fencing
- Welding and machine shops with storage limited to a fully enclosed building or screened from adjacent property with landscaping and fencing
Conditional / special use9
- Vape/smoke shop and vape/smoke lounge
- Railroad facilities including tracks, bridges and stations
- 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
- 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
- Heavy equipment sales and service, with major repair under cover or screened with landscaping and fencing from adjacent property
- Heliports, helistops
- Hospital
- Machinery sales and service with major repair under cover
- Petroleum storage
Extracted standards
7 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Design
- Unified building design
Building design in urban/residential core should be coordinated with regard to color, materials, architectural form and detailing to achieve design harmony.
Height
- HeightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. limitation waiver for structures over 60 ft
Structures over 60 ft up to 100 ft may be erected only upon granting of a height limitation waiver by the board of supervisors with specific findings.
Other
- Open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. definition and inclusions
Open space may include perpetual easements, buffers, archaeological sites, habitat, bikeways, parks, community facilities; golf courses up to 50% of required open space.
- Street design and construction
All dedicated public streets shall meet VDOT standards; private streets may be permitted with board approval; modifications allowed under certain conditions.
Parking
- Parking visibility minimization
Visibility of parking lots or structures shall be minimized by placement to the side or rear of buildings and/or with landscape screening.
Setback
- Buffer from economic opportunity districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2. perimeter25 ft
A buffer of 25 feet shall be maintained from the perimeter of an economic opportunity district; increased to 100 feet where adjoining low-density residential or rural lands or community character area.
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from community character corridor50 ft
Structures shall be located a minimum of 50 feet or more from any community character corridor.
From the ordinance
Structures may be erected up to 60 feet; open space not less than 10% of developable area; structures located 25 ft from road ROW; all structures served by public water and sewer.