Mineral, Virginia · General provision
Article IV, § 425-23 through § 425-28
Light CommercialAll Mineral districts0
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right6
- banks
- office buildings
- greenhouses and nurseries (commercial scale)
- parking of automobiles (excluding house trailers, freight trucks, and trailers)
- self-service laundries
- retail businesses (retail stores and service establishments, max 10,000 sq ft floor space)
Conditional / special use2
Prohibited4
- industrial or manufacturing purposes
- house trailers, freight trucks, and trailers (for parking)
- manufacturing, wholesaling, or jobbing in retail stores
- retail businesses exceeding 10,000 square feet of floor space
Extracted standards
3 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Maximum retail floor area10,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
no such retail business shall exceed 10,000 square feet of floor space
- Water and sewer required
Water and sewer shall be provided.
Setback
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. on developed streets
The setback shall blend with existing setbacks on developed streets.
From the ordinance
Within any Light Commercial District... no lot, building or structure shall be used... for any industrial or manufacturing purpose... Multifamily dwellings and apartments must be authorized by a conditional use permit... No building or structure shall be erected to a height in excess of 50 feet above grade without recommendation...