Alexandria, Virginia · General provision

Section 4-1200, 4-1205

Light Medium IndustrialAll Alexandria districts0

Dimensional standards

Uses

Extracted standards

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

Design

  • No parking forward of front building wall

    No off-street parking or loading spaces shall be located forward of a front building wall.

  • No vehicular entrances facing street

    No vehicular entrances to public garages, private garages, off-street parking spaces, or loading spaces shall face a street.

  • The placement or construction of items that block the visibility through windows of the interior of the commercial space from the street and sidewalk... shall be prohibited. All windows shall remain transparent.

Other

  • 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.

  • All uses within enclosed building or screened area

    All uses and operations shall be conducted within a completely enclosed building or an area enclosed on all sides with screening or buffering adequate and reasonable to protect adjacent nearby uses, as determined by the director, with the exception of outdoor uses pursuant to this section 4-1200 and City Code section 5-2-29, as applicable.

  • First floor use restrictions for new buildings

    In buildings constructed after December 16, 2023, uses occupying the first floor shall be limited to the following: Building lobby with 30 feet of frontage or less; Health and athletic club or fitness studio; Personal service establishment; Recreation and entertainment uses, indoor; Restaurants pursuant to 4-1202(V.1) or 4-1292.1(A.1); Retail shopping establishment.

  • 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 retail proximity restriction1,000 ft

    Retail shopping establishments with a principal use selling tobacco products... 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.

From the ordinance

The maximum permitted height of a building is 50 feet, provided that in the case of a use that requires greater height for a tower, stack or other feature due to the inherent nature of its operations, the additional height needed to accommodate such feature may be approved with a special use permit.
Section 4-1200, 4-1205

Use details

{
  "dropped_conditions": {
    "prohibited_uses": [
      "Any use which is not a permitted, special or accessory use pursuant to this section 4-1200"
    ],
    "conditional_uses": [
      "Automobile and trailer rental or sales area, other than pursuant to section 4-1202.1",
      "Motor vehicle parking or storage for more than 20 vehicles, other than pursuant to section 4-1202.1",
      "Outdoor dining on private property, other than pursuant to sections 4-1202 and 4-1202.1",
      "Outdoor market, other than pursuant to section 4-1202.1",
      "Outdoor garden center, other than pursuant to section 4-1202.1"
    ]
  }
}