Sec. 32-509.02, 32-509.03, 32-509.06
Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
Servicing
- Applies near
- high voltage transmission lines (115kv+)
- Geographic extent
- Lands in proximity to high voltage transmission lines of 115kv or more and planned or zoned for office or industrial uses
Uses
Permitted by right2
- All uses permitted by right in underlying zoning district
- Data centers (by right in O(L), O(H), O(M), O(F), M-1, M-2, M/T, and designated office/industrial land bays in PBD and PMD)
Conditional / special use1
Prohibited1
- Data centers in agricultural, residential, PMR, B-2, B-3, V districts
Extracted standards
6 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Buffer yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. earthen berm minimum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.6 ft
any side/rear yard abutting property that is not planned or developed with commercial or industrial uses shall include a buffer yard required plantings installed on an earthen berm that has a minimum height of six (6) feet and a slope not steeper than 2:1
- Buffer yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. earthen berm maximum slope2 ratio (horizontal:vertical)
slope not steeper than 2:1
- Chain-link fencing prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance. along streets
fencing along public or private streets is not chain-link, with or without slatted inserts, and does not include barbed wire or other similarly visibly intrusive deterrence device.
- Facade color facing Manassas Battlefield Park
Building façades facing Manassas Battlefield Park, that are visible from viewshed anchors as identified in the Manassas Battlefields Viewshed Preservation Study, shall be non-reflective and dark green or dark brown in color.
- Minimum principal façade design elements2 elements
Principal building façades shall avoid the use of undifferentiated surfaces by including at least two of the following design elements: change in building height; building step-backs or recesses; fenestration; change in building material, pattern, texture, color; or use of accent materials.
- Substation fence heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. facing residential10 ft
Ten-foot-tall opaque fencing facing residentially zoned/planned properties.
From the ordinance
Data Centers are permitted an increased FAR, within the Data Center Opportunity Zone Overlay District, up to 1.0 FAR provided all other development standards (excluding FAR limitations) for the underlying district are met.