Radford, Virginia · General provision
Sec. 120.1-66 to 120.1-73
Mixed Use Residential BusinessAll Radford districts0
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right18
- Single-family dwellings
- Family day care home
- Group home
- Multifamily dwellings of seven or less units (with site plan approval)
- Rights-of-way, easements and facilities for public utilities and transportation
- Any uses or structures located in this district at the time of adoption
- Retail stores and shops containing five or less businesses
- Auto service stations, auto service centers and self-service gasoline stations
- Automatic or self-service auto wash facilities
- Banks and other financial institutions
- Barber shops or beauty parlors
- Bicycle sales and repair shops
- Catering or delicatessen business
- Contractors' offices, shops and display rooms
- Parking areas and parking garages as a principal use
- Restaurants and other food service and catering establishments (with site plan approval)
- Bed and breakfast
- Churches and other places of worship
Conditional / special use11
- Townhouses
- Duplexes
- Multifamily dwellings with more than seven units (with site plan approval)
- Living quarters in main building of owner-occupied single-family dwellings
- Public schools and private schools (with site plan approval)
- Parks, playgrounds, recreation facilities, libraries, museums, community centers (with site plan approval)
- Neighborhood recycling drop center
- Private club, lodge, civic organization, fraternity and/or sorority living quarters
- Home for adults
- Nursing home
- Clinic
Accessory9
- Home occupations
- Recreational vehicles stored within required side or rear yard (occupancy prohibited)
- Temporary buildings for construction work
- Signs as permitted by Article V
- Parking
- Satellite dish antenna not exceeding 20 inches in diameter
- Swimming pool associated with private residence
- Garden
- Customary accessory structures
Extracted standards
5 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Percentage of development dedicated to business/commercial uses25 pct
Not less than 25 percent or more than 75 percent of the development shall be dedicated to business/commercial uses.
- Maximum units in a continuous row10 units
Not more than ten single-family attached dwellings shall be attached in a series or continuous row.
- Common recreation area for developments >8 units10 pct
Each development site containing more than eight dwelling units shall be provided with common recreation area of not less than ten percent of the area.
- Yards between main buildings on same lot40 ft
Yards of not less than 40 feet shall be provided between such buildings.
- Side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. when abutting residential districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.20 ft
Side yards abutting any property lying within a CD, R-1, R-2, or R-3 District or abutting any property devoted to single-family dwelling use shall be not less than 20 feet.
From the ordinance
Multifamily dwellings: min lot area 10,000 sq ft for up to 4 units; front yard 25 ft; side yard 15 ft (20 if abutting residential); rear 25 ft; height 65 ft; open space 25%.