Land use · Falls Church, Virginia

parking lot

Named in 2 of this ordinance’s zoning districts.

How this ordinance defines it

The operative definition is the local one. Codes routinely subdivide a category into tiers — “day care 2, family”, “group home 2” — and attach different permissions to each, so only Falls Church’s own text settles what this covers.

Chapter 1Reads like a definition

building lot containing required off-street parking wholly within an accessory structure or substructure. ** Parking lot ** means an area with demarcated spaces designed for the temporary storage of motor vehicles in the absence of their owners or

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or walled privacy yard shall not extend into a required landscaped strip. (l) Parking lots shall be screened from public streets and adjacent property in accordance with article V, division 8. (Code 1973, § 81-35; Code

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single-family residential development. ### Sec. 48-1181. - Commercial, multifamily and mixed-use development perimeter parking lot landscaping. ### Sec. 48-1182. - Commercial, multifamily and mixed-use development interior parking lot landscaping. ### Sec. 48-1183. - Required buffer strips

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permanent or temporary sign which can be read from a public street or parking lot , and which is placed on the outside or inside face of a glass window, or within a distance of two feet

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Where it is allowed here

Permitted by right2

Allowed outright — no hearing needed.