C-1
Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
- Three-family
- by_right
- Four-plus family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right55
- retail food stores
- bakeries and catering
- dry cleaners
- laundries and laundromats
- florist shops
- wearing apparel stores
- jewelry stores
- drugstores
- fabric shops
- barbershops and beauty shops
- theaters, assembly halls
- boat supply stores, marine sales, repair, fabrication, painting, upholstering, rebuilding, reconditioning
- banks
- music shops
- restaurants
- furniture and home appliance stores
- hotels, motels, tourist homes, boardinghouses, roominghouses
- office buildings
- office supply stores
- churches
- libraries
- micro-brewery and micro-distillery with retail/restaurant
- hospitals
- funeral homes or mortuaries
- automobile sales, gas stations, repair, fabrication, painting, upholstering, rebuilding, reconditioning, bodywork
- clubs and lodges
- metal machining or welding shop
- public utilities
- off-street parking
- business signs
- temporary signs
- church bulletin boards and identification signs
- fences
- cabinetmaker and woodworking shop
- building, hardware, plumbing, electrical, heating and air conditioning services and supply stores
- machinery sales and service
- mini-storage warehouses
- moving and storage warehouses
- firehouses
- rescue squads
- antique stores
- video sales and rentals
- taxi and shuttle service
- driver instruction
- spa sales and service
- exercise studios
- printing and newspapers
- bed and breakfasts
- photo studios
- mixed use commercial and residential (residential ≤50% of floor area)
- accredited residential care facility, rehab, skilled care, assisted living facility
- yard sales (with administrative permit)
- single-family homes
- schools, playgrounds and daycare centers, professional services, internet and computer services/consultants
- small solar energy systems
Conditional / special use11
- brewery and distillery with retail/restaurant
- retail seafood markets
- radio station
- auction
- flea market
- shopping center
- commercial stores over 45,000 sq ft
- small loan business
- veterinarian and animal boarding facility
- large and utility-scale solar energy systems
- public billiard parlors, pool rooms, bowling alleys, dancehalls (public hearing required)
Extracted standards
11 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Lighting
- Lighting requirements
All lighting shall be full cut-off fixtures directed downward and inward toward the building and shall be no higher than 35 feet above grade. Sodium vapor lights shall not be utilized.
Other
- Entryway features
Buildings shall have clearly defined, highly visible customer entrances incorporating at least two features such as canopies, overhangs, recesses, arcades, etc.
- Evergreen tree percentage25 pct
To the greatest extent possible, no less than 25 percent of trees shall be evergreen species.
- Exterior wall material
No building may be erected unless the outer walls are of brick, concrete, cinderblock or other masonry material, or approved under the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code.
- Facade design requirements
Facades visible from public street and >150 ft long should incorporate wall plane projections or recesses of at least 3 ft depth; facades not facing streets should incorporate repeating pattern with changes in color, texture, material.
- Roof equipment concealment
Flat roof and all rooftop equipment such as HVAC units shall be concealed from typical street level view by parapets or other means.
In shopping centers exceeding five acres, no buildings, parking surfaces or other above-ground improvements within 30 feet of a public street; area shall contain heavily-landscaped berm of min 3 ft height.
- Stormwater pond fencing
The use of fencing to enclose stormwater management ponds is required.
- Internal pedestrian walkway width5 ft
Connecting internal pedestrian walkways, no less than five feet in width, shall be provided from public sidewalk to principal customer entrance.
Parking
- Parking reduction for large centers
In commercial establishments ≥80,000 sq ft, parking may be reduced to one space per 250 sq ft if pedestrian walkways are provided.
Signage
- Sign base landscaping
A minimum of 75 square feet of shrubbery, flower beds, trees or other plants, consisting of at least 50 percent evergreens, shall be required at the base of freestanding signs identifying shopping centers.
From the ordinance
No area requirements; setback 20 ft; side yard 10 ft; rear 20 ft; height 35 ft; many commercial uses; mixed use residential up to 50% of floor area; design standards apply.