Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
Servicing
- Applies near
- James River
- Geographic extent
- Applied only to large contiguous areas near high-capacity electric generation, natural gas lines, and navigable waterways.
Uses
Permitted by right16
- Utility service/minor
- Business or trade school
- Educational facility
- Science and technology center
- Research, experimental, and technology center
- Construction office, temporary
- Office, general
- Contractor's yard
- Data warehouse center
- Energy storage facility
- Flex industrial
- Laboratory
- Outdoor storage, construction material (temporary)
- Renewable energy generation facility
- Warehousing and distribution
- Water storage tank
Conditional / special use7
Accessory1
Extracted standards
3 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Lighting
- Exterior lighting minimal impact
Exterior lighting must be established with minimal impact to neighboring properties and the regional skyline.
Other
- Minimum districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2. size500 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
Minimum district size: 500 acres of contiguous land.
- Screening required
All structures must be sufficiently screened to avoid material-adverse visual impact on neighboring properties, the James River, or historic sites.
From the ordinance
Maximum height 75 ft; no minimum setbacks; minimum district size 500 acres; screening required to avoid visual impact on neighboring properties, James River, or historic sites.