Municipality · Virginia

Danville

The ordinance has been retrieved, read and turned into structured rules.

Districts

375

Extracted rules

1,794

Standards

Chapters read

Zoning snapshotAcquired

Zoning districts

1 districts, grouped by category.

Commercial

CP-1Commercial

Cyber Park One Economic Development District

Danville, VA

Max height: 80 ft
Permitted uses: 37

General provisions

374 rules that bind every district rather than one — sign regulations, parking, floodplain and the rest of the code’s citywide chapters.

Article 10, Section H.42 standards

Temporary portable signs, such as "A-frame" signs, not exceeding 32 square feet in area, which are intended to identify or display information pertaining to an establishment for which permanent free-standing signage is an order as evidenced by presentation of a copy of an executed order form for such permanent signage to the Director of Planning/Zoning Administrator. Such permit shall expire and the portable sign shall be removed upon the arrival of the permanent sign or 30 days, whichever shall occur first.

Article 10, Section I.11 standards

Outdoor advertising signs, including billboards, unless otherwise specified in this ordinance.

Article 10, Section I.101 standards

Separate signs attached to a freestanding sign or its supporting structure, advertising services including but not limited to automobile travel clubs and credit cards.

Article 10, Section I.24 standards

Permanent pennants, banners, festoons, streamers, and all other flutter, spinning or similar type signs and advertising devices are prohibited, except for the following: national flags, flags of a political subdivision of the United States and two (2) decorative house flags per household and a maximum of (4) projecting banners per structure within the TW-C district, with a maximum of two (2) per street frontage.

Article 10, Section I.31 standards

Permanent advertising signs attached to fences in recreation areas are prohibited in all residential districts, provided that advertising sign for individual businesses which are intended to be placed on fences contained entirely within athletic fields may be permitted by special use permit.

Article 10, Section I.41 standards

No sign which is not an integral part of the building design shall be fastened to and supported by or on the roof of a building and no projecting sign shall extend over or above the roof line or parapet wall of a building.

Article 10, Section I.51 standards

No flashing signs or signs containing strings of lights shall be permitted in any district. No such sign shall be constructed, erected, used, operated, or maintained which displays intermittent lights resembling, or seeming to resemble, the flashing lights customarily associated with danger or such as are customarily used by police, fire, or ambulance vehicles, or for navigation purposes.

Article 10, Section I.71 standards

No sign, except official notices of the City of Danville, shall be attached to trees, utility poles, public property, improvements within public rights of way, or on any unapproved supporting structure, with such determination made at the sole discretion of the Director of Planning/Zoning Administrator.

Article 10, Section I.81 standards

No signs shall project over public right-of-way without express permission of the Planning Commission in conjunction with the approval of a site plan, except for permitted flat signs which may project not more than 18 inches.

Article 10, Section I.91 standards

Any sign mounted or painted on or otherwise affixed to any parked vehicle, parked trailer, or other parked device capable of being towed, which is obviously and conspicuously parked so as to advertise the business to the passing motorist or pedestrian, and for which the primary purpose is to provide additional on-site signage or is to serve the function of an outdoor advertising sign. Excluded from this sign type are vehicles and equipment in operating condition which are currently registered and licensed to operate on public streets with a valid inspection sticker and which are actively used in the daily function of the business to which such signs related.

Article 10, Section L12 standards