zoneoptics
Municipality · Virginia

Emporia

The ordinance has been retrieved, read and turned into structured rules.
11
Districts
306
Extracted rules
1,049
Standards
10
Chapters read
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Zoning districts

11 districts, grouped by category.

Commercial

3
C-1Commercial

General Commercial

Emporia, VA
Max height
55 ft
Permitted uses
3
C-2Commercial

Highway Commercial

Emporia, VA
Max height
55 ft
Permitted uses
4
C-3Commercial
Emporia, VA

Industrial

4
I-1Industrial

Light Industrial

Emporia, VA
Max height
60 ft
Permitted uses
5
I-2Industrial

Heavy Industrial

Emporia, VA
Max height
60 ft
Permitted uses
1
M-1Industrial
Emporia, VA
M-2Industrial
Emporia, VA

Residential

4
R-1Residential

Low Density Residential

Emporia, VA
Max height
50 ft
Permitted uses
4
R-2Residential

Medium Density Residential

Emporia, VA
Max height
50 ft
Permitted uses
5
R-3Residential

High Density Residential

Emporia, VA
Max height
50 ft
Permitted uses
7
R-4Residential
Emporia, VA

General provisions

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

Sec. 90-609(b)(3)1 standards

All new public streets shall be constructed with a compacted six inches stone base...

Sec. 90-609(c)3 standards

Major streets shall conform to the contours to avoid grades in excess of three percent... Other streets and alleys shall avoid grades in excess of ten percent. No street shall have a minimum grade of less than 0.5 percent.

Sec. 90-609(f)3 standards

Cul-de-sac streets shall be: a. Four hundred feet or less in length. b. Fifty feet or more in width. c. Terminated in a circular right-of-way with a minimum right-of-way radius of 50 feet.

Sec. 90-609(h)2 standards

Alleys shall be required in commercial and industrial districts... shall be 24 feet in width. When provided in the rear of residential lots, alleys shall be a minimum of 20 feet wide...

Sec. 90-6102 standards

Where alleys are not provided in the plat, public utility easements of not less than ten feet in width, five feet on each side of the rear or side lot lines, shall be granted to the city by the owner for utilities and drainage.

Sec. 90-610(c)2 standards

public utility easements of not less than ten feet in width, five feet on each side of the rear or side lot lines, shall be granted to the city by the owner for utilities and drainage.

Sec. 90-6115 standards

Every subdivision shall be connected to the public water supply system.

Sec. 90-61112 standards

Every subdivision shall be connected to the public water supply system.

Sec. 90-6122 standards

Permanent reference monuments shall be provided at all street corners, points where street lines intersect exterior boundaries, and at angle points and points of curvature and tangency in each street.

Sec. 90-631 to 90-6364 standards

The developer shall provide a guarantee to the city for acceptance by the agent or city attorney, such guarantee may be a: performance bond, letter of credit, or cash escrow.

Sec. 90-651 to 90-6624 standards

All proposed subdivisions involving more than 50 lots must submit a preliminary plat for approval.

Sec. 90-731 standards

A statement informing the recipient that they may have a right to appeal the notice of zoning violation or written order within 30 days

Sec. 90-749 standards

A civil violation shall be subject to a civil penalty of $200.00 for the initial summons, and a civil penalty of $500.00 for each additional summons arising from the same set of operative facts.

Sec. 90-911 standards

prior to the initiation of an application or appeal, the applicant shall produce satisfactory evidence that any delinquent real estate taxes, nuisance charges, stormwater management utility fees, and any other charges that constitute a lien on the subject property that are owed to the city, have been paid in full

Table 6.1 Use Matrix

Club | CUP | CUP | | | B | B | B | | CUP | |

Source documents

The chapters of the adopted code that were retrieved, read and extracted from. Everything above traces back to one of these.