Front Royal, Virginia · District

C-3

Highway Corridor Business District
CommercialHighway CorridorAll Front Royal districts0

Dimensional standards

C-3 lot requirementsSTREETbuildable areaFront 10 ftMin width 100 ftMIN LOT AREA1 acMAX HEIGHT45 ftMAX LOT COVERAGE75%MAX IMPERVIOUS90%
Plan view of the district’s stated lot requirements. Solid line: the property line. Dashed: the setback lines the ordinance imposes; a building must stay inside the tinted envelope. Drawn from the figures extracted below — illustrative, not a survey.

Uses

Extracted standards

7 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.

Landscaping & trees

  • Minimum tree canopy at maturity10 pct

    All new developments shall provide for the planting, replacement and/or maintenance of trees on the site to the extent that, at maturity of twenty (20) years, minimum tree cover shall be at least ten (10) percent of the site area.

Lighting

  • Lighting down-directed

    Parking lot and building lighting shall be down-directed so that the lighting does not extend beyond the property boundary.

Other

From the ordinance

The Highway Corridor Business C-3 District is intended to selected commercial uses... Minimum lot size one acre, max height 45 feet, max building coverage 75%.
175-53.1 through 175-53.8

Parking requirements

{
  "other": "see Section 175-104",
  "hotels/motels": "1 space per room + 1 per 10 rooms",
  "medical offices": "1 space per 200 gross sq ft",
  "shopping centers": "per Section 175-111",
  "indoor court game": "1 space per 2 players",
  "indoor recreation": "1 space per 200 net sq ft",
  "restaurant sit-down": "1 space per 4 seats",
  "restaurant carry-out": "1 space per 50 net sq ft customer service area",
  "offices except medical": "1 space per 300 gross sq ft",
  "theaters/assembly halls": "1 space per 4 fixed seats or 1 per 100 net sq ft",
  "restaurant drive-through": "3 spaces plus stacking lanes for 6 vehicles",
  "furniture/appliance/lumber": "1 space per 400 gross sq ft",
  "retail and personal service": "1 space per 200 gross sq ft"
}

Use details

{
  "dropped_conditions": {
    "permitted_uses": [
      "Such other uses as determined similar"
    ]
  }
}