Lovettsville, Virginia · District

CI-1

Commercial And Limited Industrial/Flex District
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Dimensional standards

CI-1 lot requirementsSTREETbuildable areaFront 25 ftRear 40 ftSide 10 ftMin width 80 ftMIN LOT AREA10,000 sq ftMAX HEIGHT35 ft
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

Conditional / special use55

Extracted standards

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

Design

  • All walls finished in same materials

    All 4 walls of any building will be finished in the same materials provided the percentages of each material may be altered.

  • Building orientation to public streets

    Buildings shall be oriented to public streets and off-street parking located to the side or in the rear of buildings to the maximum extent feasible.

  • The facade of any building having a footprint area greater than 10,000 square feet shall use fenestration, combinations of materials, and articulation to avoid large, flat, monotonous walls.

  • Service bay orientation restriction

    To the maximum extent feasible, vehicle service bays, loading bays and garage doors shall not be designed or oriented so as to face adjacent public streets, or any adjacent property located in any residential zoning district.

Noise

  • Truck idling hours (weekday)

    Tractor-trailer trucks shall not be left idling prior to 7:00 a.m. and later than 7:00 p.m. Monday through Friday

  • Truck idling hours (weekend)

    and prior to 9:00 a.m. and later than 7:00 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.

Other

Parking

  • Parking surface material

    All off-street parking and loading areas shall be paved with an asphalt or concrete surface, provided that gravel may be used for surfacing outdoor storage areas.

From the ordinance

Height: 35 feet for principal and accessory structures. Where property in the CI-1 District is located adjacent to land lying in a residential zoning district, a minimum 50-foot wide landscape buffer shall be required with a berm not less than 8 feet and not more than 10 feet in height
Sec 42-260

Use details

{
  "dropped_conditions": {
    "conditional_uses": [
      "All deliveries shall only occur during permitted public business hours.",
      "All outdoor business-related activities shall only occur during permitted public business hours.",
      "All business activity that is audible at the property line shall only occur during permitted public business hours.",
      "Refuse and dumpster collection shall only occur between 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. Monday through Friday and between 9:00 a",
      "Exterior storage areas may be located in a required side or rear yard provided such areas shall be set back at least ten",
      "Exterior storage areas shall not include the storage of waste materials.",
      "No exterior storage area or its associated fence shall be located within a required buffer yard",
      "Underground storage tank. An existing underground storage tank located in the area may be replaced or upgraded in accord",
      "The berm shall be measured from the average grade at the base of the berm to the average height at the crest of the berm",
      "Any such berm shall have slopes no steeper than 3:1.",
      "The requirements of this subsection shall be subject to the provisions of section 42-369 authorizing approval of alterna"
    ]
  }
}