Martinsville
Zoning districts
3 districts, grouped by category.
Commercial
1General provisions
75 rules that bind every district rather than one — sign regulations, parking, floodplain and the rest of the code’s citywide chapters.
The C-C, Corridor Commercial District (formerly C-3) provides for large-scale retail, and other commercial uses, at a lower density than is found in zones C-N and C-UB.
No Single Detached Permitted. Other Residential Uses Follow Provisions of the R-C District*
The ED-G, Economic Development General District is established to support locations for free standing establishments and planned industrial parks serving research, technology, development and training, corporate employment offices, and light manufacturing and warehousing operations under sound environmental performance standards.
Residential development is not permitted within the ED-I District in locations outside of the designated TND-O District. Uses permitted by right: ... Uses permitted by special use permit: ...
The EC-O District regulations shall be applied as an overlay zone to those designated entrance corridors herein below referenced in sub-section B and for which a corridor master plan has been adopted.
All development in all zoning districts must have direct access to public dedicated streets or highways. ... Curb and gutter shall be required for all new public and private streets in all developments and all districts, with the exception of the R-E District.
No zoning, site plan, subdivision plat, or building permit shall be issued for the erection, reconstruction, exterior alteration, restoration, rehabilitation, razing, relocation or demolition of any building, structure, sign, fence, wall, light fixture, accessory building, grading, site improvement, significant landscaping feature or other appurtenant element in an HP-O District until such building or site element has been approved by the issuance of a certificate of appropriateness by the architectural review board.
All landscape materials shall conform to the following minimum size or height standards at the date of planting: Deciduous shade trees Two-inch caliper; Ornamental and understory trees Six-foot height; Coniferous trees Six-foot height; Evergreen shrubs Eighteen-inch spread or height; Deciduous shrubs Twenty-four-inch spread or height.
The planting or replacement of trees on a development site shall be required to the extent that twenty (20) years after planting, minimum tree canopies shall be provided as follows in the following zoning districts: [table with district-specific requirements]
Where a professional or business zoned development abuts a residential zoning district, a natural buffer strip twenty-five (25) feet in width shall be required. Where a commercial zoned development abuts a residential zoning district, a natural buffer strip of fifty (50) feet in width shall be required. Where a manufacturing zoned development abuts a residential zoning district, a natural buffer strip of one hundred (100) feet in width shall be required.
Where a parking lot (or a private driveway providing access to a parking lot or building entry) abuts a property line not common with the right-of-way of a street, a landscaping strip of two and one-half (2.5) feet in width shall be located between the parking lot and the abutting property line. A minimum of one tree for each forty (40) feet of contiguous property line shall be planted in the landscaping strip.
Fences or walls shall be located outside of the public right-of-way, and may not exceed twenty-four (24) inches in height if located within a required sight triangle.
The off-street parking and loading requirements of this section shall apply to all zoning districts within the city, with the exception of the C-UB (Uptown Business District) where it is generally recognized that on-street parking and public lots will provide parking access to existing establishments.
Proffers are voluntary and reasonable conditions that may be offered only by a property owner in conjunction with a zoning map amendment ('rezoning') application.
Appeals to the BZA shall be filed within thirty (30) days... such appeal is filed with the zoning administrator within ten (10) business days... shall be guilty of a class I misdemeanor
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