Alexandria, Virginia · General provision

Various sections (4-1107, 4-1206, 4-1306, 4-1406, 4-207, 4-307)

Extracted standards

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

Other

  • Appliance sales limitation

    Appliance sales, repair and rental shall be limited to small appliances only, such as televisions, radios, lawnmowers, kitchen counter and small electronic appliances and like items which do not exceed one horsepower in size.

  • Automobile service station location

    Automobile service stations, car washes and drive through facilities shall only be located along an arterial (100 feet) or primary collector (80 feet) road, including any associated service road.

  • A day care center or commercial school shall obtain all state, federal and local licenses and certificates prior to opening its place of business.

  • A day care center shall submit for the director's review a pick-up and drop-off plan that adequately ensures the safe transfer of children and creates minimal impact on pedestrian and vehicular traffic. The day care center must obtain approval of the plan prior to opening its place of business.

  • Eisenhower Avenue grandfathered uses

    Single-unit, two-unit, townhouse and multi-unit dwellings on lots located within 1,000 feet of the centerline of Eisenhower Avenue, existing on November 9, 1999, or for which a building permit application or preliminary site plan application was filed and was pending or had been approved on or before November 9, 1999, shall not be subject to the requirement for a special use permit, shall not be characterized as nonconforming or noncomplying uses or structures, and shall be characterized as uses or structures grandfathered under prior law, pursuant to section 12-500 of this ordinance.

  • No use shall be conducted in any manner which would render it noxious or offensive by reason of dust, refuse matter, odor, smoke, gas fumes, noise, vibration or glare.

  • Tobacco proximity restriction

    Retail shopping establishments with a principal use selling tobacco products, nicotine vapor products, alternative nicotine products, or hemp products intended for smoking are prohibited on property within 1,000 linear feet of a child day care center, or a public or private academic early childhood, elementary, middle, or high school. Any such use in operation prior to July 1, 2024, may continue to operate at its existing location, but Article XII does not apply.

  • The placement or construction of items that block the visibility through windows of the interior of the commercial space from the street and sidewalk, including, but not limited to, walls, window film, storage cabinets, carts, shelving, boxes, coat racks, storage bins, and closets, shall be prohibited. All windows shall remain transparent.

From the ordinance

Common use limitations and specific geographic grandfathering provisions.
Various sections (4-1107, 4-1206, 4-1306, 4-1406, 4-207, 4-307)