Sec. 98-871(n)
Dimensional standards
Extracted standards
8 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Design
- Building orientation
Buildings or groups of buildings within the center shall be oriented in relation to parking areas in a manner which minimizes the need for internal automotive movement once patrons have entered the site. Facilities and access routes for shopping center deliveries, servicing, and maintenance shall, so far as reasonably practicable, be separated from customer access routes and parking areas.
Other
- Landscaping plan by certified landscape architect
Landscaping plans for shopping centers shall be prepared by a Virginia certified landscape architect.
- Minimum landscaped open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted.25 pct
The minimum landscaped open space for shopping centers shall be 25 percent of the net developable area of the site.
- Out-parcel access
Access to shopping center out-parcels shall be designed such that the internal circulation system alone provides adequate access to each proposed out-parcel. Individual access to existing public roads for out-parcels shall not be permitted except as may be approved by the zoning administrator upon the demonstration within the traffic impact analysis that such an individual access will not violate the access management provisions of this chapter or the subdivision ordinance, will improve internal circulation and will not adversely affect traffic flows on the adjacent public roadway(s).
- Pedestrian circulation
Accommodations for pedestrian circulation must be provided throughout the center and shall be appropriately separated from vehicular circulation in order to minimize congestion and safety hazards.
- Perimeter landscape yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates.20 ft
A minimum 20-foot landscape yard shall be provided around the perimeter of the shopping center site. Along all public street frontages, landscape yards shall be expanded to 25 feet.
- Reduced landscaped open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted.20 pct
Where no parking is provided or accommodated in front of the principal building on site, or where the shopping center site is larger than 20 acres the amount of landscaped open space required may be reduced to 20 percent provided that no less than 65 percent of the required open space is located in front of the principal building in the center and that direct views of parking from adjacent public roads are significantly disrupted by landscape methods.
- Street frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street. landscape yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates.25 ft
Along all public street frontages, landscape yards shall be expanded to 25 feet.
From the ordinance
The dimensional requirements for the development of a shopping center shall be based on the size of the center measured in gross square feet available for occupancy as follows notwithstanding the regulations of the district in which the center is located.