Section 175-111 SHOPPING CENTERS.
Shopping
centers shall be in single ownership or under a
guaranteed unified management control. Shopping centers shall consist
of
harmonious selection of uses and groupings of buildings, service and
parking
areas, circulation and open space and shall be subject to the
provisions of the
Condominium Act of Virginia and shall comply with the following
regulations:
A.
Permitted principal uses shall be as follows:
1. Stores for the sale of goods at retail or
the performance of customary personal services or services clearly
incidental
to retail sales.
2. Business, professional or banking
offices.
3. Restaurants, cafes or similar
places serving food and/or beverages.
4.
Parking areas for transient auto vehicles,
but not for the storage of new or used motor vehicles for sale.
5. Gasoline service stations, with
repairs done within a building.
6. Theaters, not including
drive-in theaters.
B.
Permitted accessory uses located on the same lot with the
permitted principal use. Only the customary accessory
uses associated with a commercial district shall be permitted,
provided
that they are limited to the same lot as the principal uses.
C.
Area and bulk regulations shall be as follows:
1. Lot size: The area for development
shall be a minimum of two (2) acres.
2. Building height: two (2) stories or
thirty-five (35) feet maximum.
3. Front yard: thirty (30) feet
minimum.
4.
Side yards: thirty (30) feet minimum.
5.
Rear yard: thirty (30) feet minimum.
6.
Lot coverage: twenty-five percent (25%) maximum.
D.
Supplementary regulations.
1.
Off-street parking and loading:
Off-street parking shall be provided on the premises at the rate
of five
(5) parking spaces per one thousand (1,000) gross square feet for every
shopping center facility ten thousand (10,000) square feet in size or
less.
For shopping centers over ten thousand (10,000) square feet, the
parking
requirement shall be four (4) parking spaces per one thousand (1,000)
gross
square feet. Parking shall be permitted in the areas required
for front, side and rear yard setbacks up to a point of twenty-
five (25)
feet from any front, side or rear of the lot line of the shopping
center.
All parking areas shall be suitably paved with permanent
hard-surfaced
coverings. Off-street loading spaces shall be provided in
accordance
with Section 175-105.
(Ord.
No. Z-3-92 Amended “1”
11-25-91-Effective Upon Passage)
2.
Access and traffic controls:
All means of ingress or egress from the shopping center to any
public
street or state highway shall be located at least two hundred (200)
feet from
any other intersecting street or streets and shall be designed to
conduct
traffic in a safe manner. The developer shall be responsible for the
purchase
and erection of any necessary traffic control devices and the
construction
of additional acceleration or deceleration lanes or service walks as
may be
required by the State Department of Highways and Transportation or by
the town.
3.
Interior circulation: Interior
access ways shall be designed so as to prevent the blocking of vehicles
entering or leaving the site. Areas provided for loading or
unloading of trucks and/or other vehicles or for servicing of shops for
rubbish
collection or other services shall be adequate in size and shall be so
arranged
that they may be used without blocking or interfering with interior
circulation and parking facilities.
4.
Lighting: Lighting for
buildings, signs, access ways and parking areas shall be so arranged as
not to
reflect toward public streets or cause any annoyance to surrounding
property
owners or residents.
5.
Shopping cart storage:
Establishments furnishing carts or mobile baskets shall provide
definite areas
on the site for the storage of said carts. Storage areas shall be
clearly
marked and designated for the storage of shopping carts and/or
mobile
baskets.
6.
Screening: All lot lines
abutting residential districts along the side yard or rear yard shall
be
appropriately screened by fences, walls or year-round planting and/or
other
suitable enclosures of a minimum height of four (4) feet. All
outdoor
storage areas shall be screened or enclosed.
7.
Storage of trash
or rubbish: Storage areas for trash and rubbish shall be
completely
screened, and all organic rubbish shall be contained in containers with
tightly-fitting lids. No such storage shall be permitted within any
required
yard space.
8. Signs: Signs shall conform to Section 175-106.
9. Development plan required:
a.
Prior to the issuance of a special permit,
ten (10) copies of a development plan shall be submitted to the Zoning
Administrator
for review by the Administrator, Planning Commission and Town Council.
b.
The Development Plan shall contain the
following data, together with supplementary data for a particular
development, as deemed necessary by the Planning Commission
or Town
Council.
c.
Development site information:
[1]
A vicinity map at a scale of not
less than one (1) inch equals two thousand (2,000) feet.
[2]
A
title insurance policy or attorney's certificate showing the owner or
owners of
the subject property, marketable title to the subject property in such
owner or
owners, the source of applicant's title or interest in the subject
property and the place of record of the latest instrument in the chain
of title
for each parcel constituting the tract.
[3]
Total area of the tract.
[4]
Abutting street names, widths
and route numbers.
[5]
Owners, zoning districts and
uses of each adjoining tract.
[6]
A topographic map with minimum contour
intervals and scale acceptable to the Administrator.
[7]
Development design
information.
[8]
A concept plan, illustrating the
location and functional relationship between all proposed land
uses.
[9]
A land use plan or plans, showing
the location and arrangement of all proposed land uses, including
the
height and number of all buildings both above and below finished
grade;
the building setbacks and yard areas from the development boundaries
and
adjacent streets, road and alleys and easements; the proposed traffic
circulation pattern, including the location and width of all
streets,
driveways, walkways and entrances to parking areas; all off-street
parking and
loading areas; all proposed open space areas, including common
open
space, dedicated open space and developed recreational open
space; and
the approximate location of existing and proposed utility systems of
sanitary
sewer, storm sewer, water, electric, telephone and gas
lines, along
with any necessary easements.
[10]
A plan or statement showing the location
and design of all screening and indicating the type and
height of
such screening.
[11]
Statements or plans relating to all
covenants, restrictions and conditions pertaining to the use,
maintenance and
operation of common spaces, and the percentage of the tract to be used
as open
space.
[12]
A statement in tabular form
of the anticipated commercial floor area.
[13]
When the development is to be constructed
in stages or units, a sequence-of-
development
schedule showing the order of construction of each principal functional
element
of such stages or units, the approximate completion date for each stage
or unit
and a cost estimate of all improvements within each stage or unit.
[14]
A plan or
report indicating the extent, timing and estimated cost of all
off-site
improvements, such as road, sewer and drainage facilities, necessary
to
construct the proposed development, which plan or report shall
relate to
the sequence-of-development schedule if the development is to be
constructed in stages or units.
[15]
Where required by
the Planning Commission, a traffic-impact analysis, showing the effect
of
traffic generated by the project on surrounding roads.
[16]
Where required by
the Planning Commission, a fiscal-impact analysis, listing town revenue
generated by the project and town expenditures resulting from the
construction
of the project.