Sec. 24-536.5
Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
Servicing
- Geographic extent
- Economic opportunity districts as designated on the master planComprehensive planThe long-range policy document zoning is meant to implement; it is not itself binding law., including urban/residential core areas.
Uses
Permitted by right61
- Automobile repair and service including tire, transmission, glass, body and fender, and other automotive product 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
- Contractor offices, equipment storage yards, shops and warehouses with storage under cover or screened from adjacent property with landscaping and fencing
- Corporate offices
- Courier services
- Drug stores
- Dry cleaners and laundries
- Employment services or agencies
- Farmer's markets
- Feed, seed and farm supply stores
- Fire stations
- Fish farming
- Greenhouses and nurseries
- Health clubs, exercise clubs and fitness centers
- Home occupations as defined
- 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 from adjacent property with landscaping and fencing
- 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 from adjacent property with landscaping and fencing
- Printing and publication 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
- Taxi services
- 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
- Telephone exchanges and telephone switching stations
- 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 use10
- Fast food restaurants
- Marine or waterfront businesses to include the receipt, storage and transshipment of waterborne commerce, or seafood receiving, packaging or distribution under cover or screened from adjacent property with landscaping and fencing
- Shooting ranges, indoor
- Theme parks
- Vape/smoke shop and vape/smoke lounge
- 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
13 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Design
- Unified building design
Building design, in the urban/residential core as designated on the master plan, should be coordinated with regard to color, materials, architectural form and detailing to achieve design harmony, continuity, and horizontal and vertical relief and interest.
Height
- HeightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. limitation waiver
A structure in excess of 60 feet in height but not in excess of 100 feet from grade to the top of the structure... may be erected only upon the granting of a height limitation waiver by the board of supervisors.
Lot
- No minimum lot size
Except for required setbacks specified in subsections (a) and (b) above, there shall be no minimum lot size nor minimum front, side or rear yard requirements for any lot within an economic opportunity district other than as specified in approved final plans.
Other
- Buffer from districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2. perimeter
A buffer of 25 feet shall be maintained from the perimeter of an economic opportunity district. The buffer in an economic opportunity district shall be increased to 100 feet where adjoining property is designated low-density residential or rural lands on the Comprehensive Plan. In addition, the buffer shall also be increased to 100 feet where an economic opportunity district adjoins property in a community character area, except where those properties are included in the economic opportunity master plan.
- Landscaping compliance
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 urban/residential core of the economic opportunity 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.
- Public water and sewer
All structures and uses within an economic opportunity district shall be served by publicly owned and operated water and sewer systems.
- Recreation area
Residential areas and mixed-use structures, within the urban/residential core, shall be provided with a recreation area or areas adequate to meet the needs of the residents. The developer shall provide and install playground equipment, playfields, tennis courts or other recreation facilities in accordance with the guarantees established as part of master plan or final development plan approval.
- 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.
- Streetlights
Streetlights, within the urban/residential core, shall generally be provided at each intersection and other public areas. The lighting shall be directed so as not to produce objectionable glare on adjacent property or into residences within or near the development.
Parking
- Parking visibility
The visibility of parking lots or structures shall be minimized by placement to the side or rear of buildings and/or with landscape screening.
Setback
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from public roads
Structures shall be located 25 feet or more from any external existing or planned public road right-of-way, or any internal arterial road right-of-way, which is 50 feet or greater in width. Where the external existing or planned public road right-of-way, or the internal arterial road right-of-way, is less than 50 feet in width, structures shall be located 45 feet or more from the centerline. Structures shall be located a minimum of 50 feet or more from any community character corridor.
Signage
- Signage compliance
All signs within an economic opportunity district shall comply with article II, division 3 of this chapter.
From the ordinance
Economic opportunity districts are intended to have an integrated character with strong unifying design elements meeting the following standards:
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, plan supply, shoe, sporting goods, stamp, tailor, toys, travel bureau, upholstery, wearing apparel, and yard goods"
],
"conditional_uses": [
"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 right-of-ways and track and safety improvements in existing railroad right-of-ways are permitted generally and shall not require a special use permit",
"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"
]
}
}