Vienna
Zoning districts
3 districts, grouped by category.
General provisions
322 rules that bind every district rather than one — sign regulations, parking, floodplain and the rest of the code’s citywide chapters.
There shall be no parking between the building setback line and the street line within the AC, AE, AW, CS, GS, M, NM, and T districts and zones. All automobile parking areas must be set back at least five (5) feet from side yard property lines. All driveways and parking areas shall be constructed of permanent materials... Gravel or grass shall not be permitted surface treatments used for parking. Off-site parking may be approved... not more than 400 feet in distance from the principal structure or use.
All required stacking spaces must be a minimum of eighteen (18) feet in length. Minimum twenty-five (25) feet in depth; Minimum fifteen (15) feet in width; and Minimum fifteen (15) feet in height, if located within a building.
Bicycle racks that are located parallel to each other shall be at least three (3) feet apart... Bicycle racks that are located in a linear configuration shall be at least five (5) feet apart... Bicycle racks shall be spaced at least two (2) feet from walls, curbs, pavement edges, or other structures. Long-term bicycle racks must be located no more than one hundred (100) feet from the building entrance.
Each dumpster shall be located on a concrete pad with minimum dimensions of twenty (20) feet by twelve (12) feet and shall be enclosed by adequate walls or opaque fencing that is a minimum of one (1) foot taller than the container, and no taller than eight (8) feet. All utility services... shall be placed below the surface of the ground.
No sign shall be illuminated if it is located on a building frontage within fifty (50) feet of a property line adjoining a residentially zoned property or a public alley that separates commercial/industrial districts and residential zones.
No sign shall be illuminated if it is located on a building frontage within fifty (50) feet of a property line adjoining a residentially zoned property... All ground-mounted sign structures must be set back from the right-of-way a distance that is at least equal to the sign height.
All ground-mounted sign structures must be set back from the right-of-way a distance that is at least equal to the sign height.
All permanent sign types are required to be reviewed by the Board of Architectural Review and shall not be permitted or constructed until the Board of Architectural Review issues a Certificate of Approval.
The following signs are prohibited in all zones and districts: ... Moving or rotating signs, flags, pennants, streamers, balloons, or similar devices that involve motion or rotation of any part or display. ... Signs with electronic messages; changeable copy; changing color(s); flashing, blinking, or oscillating effects; that imitate movement through lighting effects; or that use video display of any kind.
All signs and sign structures shall be maintained in good repair and in a safe and secure condition. ... All signs and sign structures shall be kept in a neat, clean and presentable condition, such that each sign information item is clearly legible.
Permanent signage is permitted for commercial, industrial, and mixed uses in all zoning districts.
Non-commercial signs (construction, for sale, rent, or lease) shall not exceed five (5) feet in height. ... Temporary yard signs shall not exceed four (4) feet in height.
Temporary window signs in the Church Street Vision may not cover more than ten percent of any window area in which it is placed. Temporary window signs may not stay up for more than 30 days at one time and there may be no more than four such signs posted in any one calendar year.
All uses in a CP District shall operate in conformance with the limitations set forth in each subsection below.
No vibration shall be produced which is transmitted through the ground and is discernible without the aid of instruments at or at any point beyond the lot line; nor shall any vibration produced exceed 0.002g peak measured at or beyond the lot line using either seismic or electronic vibration measuring equipment.
All activities and all storage of flammable explosive materials at any point shall be provided with adequate safety and firefighting devices in accordance with the Fire Prevention Code of Fairfax County.
The handling of radioactive materials, the discharge of such materials into air and water, and the disposal of radioactive wastes, shall be in conformance with the regulations of the Atomic Energy Commission as set forth in title 10, chapter 1, part 20, Standards for Protection Against Radiation, as amended, and all applicable regulations of the state.
No direct or sky-reflected glare, whether from floodlights or from high temperature processes such as combustion or welding or otherwise, so as to be visible at the lot line shall be permitted. ... There shall be no emission or transmission of heat or heated air so as to be discernible at the lot line.
There shall be no discharge at any point into any public or private sewage disposal system or stream, or into the ground, of any liquid or solid materials except in accordance with the regulations of the Town, the County of Fairfax, Virginia, and the state water board, as applicable.
All noise shall be muffled so as not to be objectionable due to intermittence, beat frequency, or shrillness. ... In no event shall the sound-pressure level of noise radiated continuously from a facility at nighttime exceed at the lot line the values given in Table 1 ... where the lot line adjoins or lies within twenty-five (25) feet of the boundary of a residence district, the sound-pressure levels of noise radiated at nighttime shall not exceed at the lot line the values given in Table 2
Source documents
The chapters of the adopted code that were retrieved, read and extracted from. Everything above traces back to one of these.