Municipality · Virginia

Martinsville

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3
Districts
78
Extracted rules
554
Standards
25
Chapters read
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Zoning districts

3 districts, grouped by category.

General provisions

75 rules that bind every district rather than one — sign regulations, parking, floodplain and the rest of the code’s citywide chapters.

Section XV, C-C District13 standards

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.

Section XVI, ED-MA District12 standards

No Single Detached Permitted. Other Residential Uses Follow Provisions of the R-C District*

Section XVII13 standards

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.

Section XVIII, ED-I District, C & D25 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: ...

Section XX (EC-O)10 standards

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.

Section XX - Site Plan Review and Approval Process12 standards

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.

Section XXI10 standards

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.

Section XXII, Subsection D.95 standards

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.

Section XXII, Subsection E.21 standards

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]

Section XXII, Subsection F.27 standards

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.

Section XXII, Subsection G.111 standards

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.

Section XXII, Subsection H.31 standards

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.

Section XXIII29 standards

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.

Section XXIV10 standards

Proffers are voluntary and reasonable conditions that may be offered only by a property owner in conjunction with a zoning map amendment ('rezoning') application.

Sections N and O. Appeals and Violations3 standards

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

Source documents

The chapters of the adopted code that were retrieved, read and extracted from. Everything above traces back to one of these.