Article 18.4
Dimensional standards
Lot
- Minimum lot depth
- 0 ft
Density
- Maximum density
- 40 du/acredu/acreDwelling units per acre — the number of homes allowed on each acre of land.
- Maximum units
- 3,000
Height & bulk
- Minimum landscaping
- 10%
Housing
- Single-familySingle-family dwellingOne dwelling unit on its own lot, usually detached from its neighbours.
- prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
- Two-family
- by_right
- Three-family
- by_right
- Four-plus family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right44
- Casino gaming establishments
- Hotels and motels
- Entertainment, cultural and recreational uses (including theatres, art galleries, libraries, museums, entertainment venues, private clubs, lodges, amusement centers, and other recreational facilities)
- Retail sales establishments
- Personal services (beauty and barbershops, accountant and tax services, fitness centers, attorney offices, etc.)
- Pharmacies
- Business and professional offices, office buildings, research laboratories
- Restaurants (including drive-in, mobile food units, carry-out)
- Coffee shops
- Ice cream parlors
- Convention centers
- Multiple-family dwellings
- Incidental uses in multi-family dwellings and office buildings
- Athletic and recreational facilities and fields (golf courses)
- Swimming pools, community buildings
- Amusement places in enclosed building, auditorium
- Outdoor advertising structures or signs (excluding highway billboard signs)
- Bowling alleys and billiard parlors
- Printing, publishing, engraving establishments
- Child-care centers
- Micro-breweries, micro-distilleries, micro-wineries, micro-cideries
- Distilleries (alcoholic), breweries, alcoholic spirits (non-industrial)
- Automobile service station or self-service station (excluding repair)
- Medical clinics
- Garages, storage or parking
- Live entertainment
- Nightclubs (as accessory to casino, otherwise special use)
- Private clubs
- Private plazas
- Temporary buildings (including temporary casino)
- Community clubs, community-operated playgrounds, parks, nonprofit little theater
- Public utilities
- Off-street parking, including parking decks/garages
- Nonprofit educational and philanthropic institutions
- Studios for artist, photographer, sculptor, musician
- Exposition buildings or centers
- Colleges and schools
- Laundries
- Motion picture production
- Theaters (including drive-in, but not past 12 a.m.)
- Banking offices and financial institutions
- Accessory buildings and uses
- Grocery store
- Helipad as accessory
Extracted standards
28 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Lighting
- Awning internal illumination allowed
Awnings or canopies used for building accents over doors, windows, etc., may be internally illuminated (i.e., from underneath or behind the awning) in the ERC District.
- Maximum searchlight beam angle45 deg
Searchlight beams must not be displayed at an angle greater than 45 degrees from the perpendicular.
- Searchlight prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance. hours
Searchlights must not operate between 12:00 a.m. midnight and 5:00 p.m.
- Upward lighting allowed
Upwardly directed lighting may be used to illuminate buildings, structures, and landscaping in the ERC District, provided the lighting does not spillover onto adjacent residential uses.
Noise
- Maximum daytime noise level85 dBA
The exterior noise limits for any source of noise in any ERC District cannot exceed 85 dBA between 9:00 a.m. and 12:00 a.m. midnight, when measured at the property line of a residential use.
- Maximum nighttime noise level72 dBA
The exterior noise limits for any source of noise in any ERC District must be reduced between 12:00 a.m. midnight and 9:00 a.m. so that when measured at the property line of a residential use the noise does not exceed 72 dBA.
Other
- Amenity area width10 ft
A 10-foot-wide area must be provided along each public or private roadway within an ERC District, which area will accommodate the listed amenities in Section 10(1), and will be developed concurrently with the adjacent roadway.
- Buffer reduction along I-9560 pct
With respect to any portion of an ERC District having frontage along Interstate 95 or associated on/off ramps, the landscaped buffer shall be required for only sixty percent (60%) of such frontage provided that no single expanse without buffer meets the entirety of the 40 percent (40%) allowable.
- Bus stop right-of-way2 stops
Within each ERC District, right-of-way shall be provided by the property owner(s) upon request of the City in a mutually agreeable location for the installation of up to two (2) bus stops.
- Dumpster screening required
All dumpsters that are visible from a public road must be fully screened. The screening structure must consist of a masonry unit design enclosure and/or materials to match the adjacent building and a metal gate(s) that screens the view of the dumpster.
- Durable exterior materials required
all building exteriors must be clad in durable materials, to include, but not limited to, architectural block, brick, natural stone, fiber cement/concrete, stucco, and architectural metal cladding. Vinyl siding/cladding is prohibited as an exterior building material.
- Maximum block length2,400 ft
Blocks shall not exceed 2,400 linear feet. Enhanced pedestrian pathways can be utilized to break down blocks such as a wide promenade with art, landscaping, seating, and lighting.
- Minimum buffer width15 ft
A minimum 15-foot landscaped buffer must be provided along any property line abutting property not located within an ERC District, utilizing natural vegetation and topography when possible or, when natural vegetation cannot be utilized, live grass, shrubs, hedges, trees and other landscaping materials, as approved by the Director of Planning and Community Development.
- Minimum sidewalk width5 ft
Streets onto which buildings front and streets that serve as the primary corridors into the community shall provide sidewalks at least five (5) feet in width, with pedestrian scale lighting, native trees, and amenities such as seating, trashcans, and bicycle racks.
- Sound barrier architectural treatment
Any sound barriers developed within this district shall be enhanced with architectural treatment, murals, or other treatment approved by the Director of Planning and Community Development in a manner which shall be architectural to provide interest and approximate human scale.
- Streets not counted as open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted.
Streets are not to be considered in the calculation of open/amenity space.
- Temporary casino exemptions
The temporary casino structure and any associated site improvements which will be removed or redeveloped following construction of the permanent casino gaming establishment, including but not limited to streets and parking areas, shall be exempt from the site standards outlined in the following portions of this article: Section 5(3), Section 9, Section 10, Section 11, Section 12(1)-(3).
- Traffic Impact Analysis required
Prior to the issuance of final site plan approval for a permanent Casino Gaming Establishment, a Traffic Impact Analysis (TIA) for such permanent Casino Gaming Establishment shall be completed.
Parking
- Maximum consecutive parking spaces without island15 spaces
No more than fifteen (15) consecutive parking spaces may be provided without a landscape interior island.
- Median island frequency6 rows
A landscape median island must be provided for every six (6) rows of single parking spaces.
- Minimum median island width6 ft
Median islands must be at least six (6) feet wide.
- Minimum walkway width in median islands4 ft
Within median islands, walkways a minimum width of four (4) feet wide must be provided to connect such parking to sidewalks/walkways and to building entrances.
- Minimum parkingMinimum parkingThe number of off-street spaces a development must provide before it may open. lot landscaping10 pct
Off-street, surface parking lots shall have a minimum landscaped area equal to at least ten (10) percent of the paved area of the lot.
- Structured parking facade requirements
Street-facing facades shall (a) be designed to be compatible with the principal building in terms of architectural style, texture, and quality, and (b) be screened at ground level by architectural and/or landscape screening.
- Landscaped strip for non-street facing parking structure10 ft
All non-street facing sides of parking structures, when not built to a zero set back on the property line, shall have a continuous minimum ten-feet wide landscaped strip between the structure and said property line, except at vehicular and pedestrian access openings.
Signage
- ProhibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance. signs per state code
the signs prohibited in Code of Virginia, § 33.2-1216 are prohibited in the ERC District.
- Signage exemption for casino and related uses
there shall be no restrictions on the type, amount, or size of signage in the ERC District for the following uses (a) casino gaming establishments, and (b) uses under common ownership or control with a casino gaming establishment.
- Signage subject to Article 21 for other uses
All other uses in the ERC District shall be subject to the signage regulations set forth in Article 21 of this Ordinance.
From the ordinance
The Entertainment and Resort Casino (ERC) District establishes standards and conditions for the development and operation of an entertainment and/or casino gaming establishment...