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Manassas Park, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 31-17.A

DowntownAll Manassas Park districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA4 acMAX IMPERVIOUS75%
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.

Lot

Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built.
174,240 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (4 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

Height & bulk

Maximum impervious coverageImpervious coverageThe share of a lot covered by anything water cannot soak through — roofs, drives, patios.
75%

Housing

Two-family
by_right
Three-family
by_right
Four-plus family
by_right

Uses

Permitted by right18

Conditional / special use8

Accessory3

  • Accessory uses customarily incidental to a permitted use on the same lot, including permitted vehicles, as limited by subsection 31-32(b)
  • Live entertainment, either indoor or outdoor, that is ancillary to a restaurant and comprises no more than twenty percent (20%) of the seating area
  • Outdoor seating that is ancillary to a restaurant

Extracted standards

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

Height

Other

  • Loading dock and garage door screening

    Loading docks and garage doors for commercial businesses must be located so they are not visible from a public street.

  • Master development plan required

    Every development proposed within the downtown mixed-use district shall meet the requirements of the master planning section of this title.

  • Maximum residential component of total floor area75 pct

    the residential component of any development cannot comprise more than seventy-five (75) percent of the development's total floor area unless a waiver has been approved

  • Trash receptacle screening

    All private trash receptacles must be located and/or screened so they are not visible from a public street.

  • Utilities underground

    All utilities shall be installed underground, except control instrumentation and substations, which must be effectively screened.

Signage

From the ordinance

Development within this district may contain a mix of multi-family residential, office, and commercial land uses; provided, however, that the residential component of any development cannot comprise more than seventy-five (75) percent of the development's total floor area unless a waiver has been approved in accordance with section 31-33.2.
Sec. 31-17.A

Use details

{
  "dropped_conditions": {
    "permitted_uses": [
      "Banks, drive-in or otherwise, so long as driveway space shall be provided off the street for all vehicles waiting for drive-in service",
      "Stores or shops for the conduct of retail business, including the sale of accessories, antiques, appliances, beverages, carpets, clothing, drugs, fabrics, food, furniture, garden supplies, groceries, hardware, hobby supplies, office supplies, paint, pet shops, sporting goods, stationery, and similar stores such as florist shops; but not including adult book stores, adult mini motion picture theatres, or massage parlors"
    ]
  }
}