Section XV, C-C District
Dimensional standards
Housing
Servicing
- Applies near
- Memorial Boulevard, Commonwealth Boulevard, ChurchReligious facilityA building used for organised worship, often with halls and schools attached. Street
- Geographic extent
- Parcels zoned C-C are found primarily along major city streets, including Memorial Boulevard, Commonwealth Boulevard, and portions of ChurchReligious facilityA building used for organised worship, often with halls and schools attached. Street outside of the central business districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2..
Uses
Permitted by right57
- Accessory uses and structures
- Alcoholic beverage retail sales
- Artisan craft production
- Artist studio
- Assisted living facilities
- Automobile parking (as a stand-alone use)
- Automobile repair and service
- Automobile sales, including display lot
- Bakery or specialty food store
- Banks and financial services
- Car wash
- Catering establishment
- Churches and places of worship
- Coffee shop
- Commercial indoor entertainment
- Commercial indoor sports and recreation
- Commercial pool, tennis, or recreation facility
- Community gardens
- Conference center or performance venue
- Convenience store
- Data center or call center
- Day care, for children or adults
- Drug store or pharmacy
- Dry cleaning or laundromat
- Funeral home or mortuary
- Gasoline sales
- Grocery store
- Gym or health club
- Home occupations
- Hospital
- Hotel or motel
- Library
- Medical or dental office or laboratory
- Micro-brewery or tap room
- Movie theater
- Museum or historic site
- Nursing home
- Personal services establishment
- Pet grooming and boarding
- Plant nursery or landscape sales
- Private club, lodge, or fraternal organization
- Professional office space
- Public parks, playgrounds, and open space
- Radio or television station
- Repair services establishment
- Research and development
- Restaurant
- Restaurant, fast food
- Retail sales establishment
- Schools, colleges and academic institutions
- Shopping center
- Tailoring, alterations or shoe repair
- Urgent care center
- Veterinary clinic
- Vocational or trade school
- Wholesale sales and trade
- Hydroponic agriculture
Conditional / special use19
- Automobile auction establishment
- Cemetery or mausoleum
- Contractor or building trades workshop
- Golf course
- Heavy equipment sales and service
- Heliport or helipad associated with a permitted use
- Hydroponic agriculture
- Lumber yard
- Manufacturing, processing, and assembly
- Multifamily dwelling
- Outside storage
- Pawn shop
- Public buildings, infrastructure, and other facilities
- Rail or bus transit terminal
- Residential uses in accord with Table 15.1 herein above
- Telecommunications equipment and towers
- Temporary marketing offices for new residential development
- Warehouse or self-storage facility
- Wholesale food and beverage production
Accessory1
Prohibited2
- Adult entertainment establishments
- Prohibited uses in the ED-G and ED-I District regulations
Extracted standards
13 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Environmental
- Environmental impact statement may be required
An environmental impact statement may be required for any permitted or special permit use.
Other
- Buffer yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. required adjacent to residential districts
Where a lot is contiguous to property located in an R- district, a landscaped buffer yard shall be provided, with landscape materials and placement subject to site plan approval.
- Maximum curb cuts per right-of-way2 count
A freestanding use shall have no more than two (2) curb cuts for commercial entrances on any single right-of-way, and such curb cuts shall have a minimum distance of one hundred (100) feet between them.
- Maximum outdoor storage area15 pct
The outdoor area devoted to storage, loading and display of goods shall be limited to a maximum of fifteen (15) percent of the total lot area...
- Minimum distance between curb cuts100 ft
such curb cuts shall have a minimum distance of one hundred (100) feet between them.
- Daily report to law enforcement required
Establishment must maintain and file a daily report, as specified by the Code of Virginia § 54.1-4009, electronically with local law enforcement.
- Minimum distance from churches, schools, playgrounds1,000 ft
Establishment must be located at least one thousand (1,000) feet from churches, schools, playgrounds.
- Minimum distance from similar establishment1,000 ft
Establishment shall not be located within one thousand (1,000) feet of a similar establishment.
- Operating hours
Establishment cannot open for business prior to 10:00 a.m. and must close by 9:00 p.m.
- Security system required
An approved anti-crime security system must be installed to safeguard the premises.
- Refuse screening required
All refuse stored on-site shall be contained in completely enclosed and screened facilities.
- Site plan approval required
All uses shall be subject to site plan approval.
- Stormwater compliance required
All site development activities shall comply with the state stormwater management regulations in effect at the time of site plan application.
From the ordinance
The C-C, Corridor Commercial District (formerly C-3) provides for large-scale retail, and other commercial uses, at a lower density than is found in zones C-N and C-UB.
Use details
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"Any use, establishment or activity which in the opinion of the city council would be injurious, offensive, or noxious by reason of odor, fumes, dust, smoke, vibration, glare, noise or other cause which may be deemed as hazardous to the health, welfare and safety of the public"
]
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