1990 Blair Loop Rd, Danville, VA 24541

Neighborhood Commercial District

The Neighborhood Commercial District is established to provide for selected locations in the City for neighborhood and convenience retail shopping facilities. Retail uses in the N-C District shall serve localized neighborhood shopping patterns, with the purpose of these establishments to provide good and necessities that usually require frequent purchasing with a minimum of consumer travel per shopping trip. Building size and intensity is governed to ensure appropriate scale and lot coverage within the district: Individual businesses are limited to 3,000 sq ft of floor area per establishments and not to exceed 12,000 sq ft per building, with a floor area ratio of 0.30. The N-C District is not intended to create a retail market environment which is competitive with other City commercial areas, but, rather, is intended to accommodate existing and future neighborhood and convenience retail uses at locations compatible with those recognized by the Comprehensive Plan. The district is aimed at providing opportunities for individual neighborhood-styled businesses which, historically, have not been located in Danville within traditional strip shopping centers, regional shopping malls or in downtown commercial areas. Minimum site improvements for uses within the N-C District shall include adequate on-site parking, public water and sewer service, public street frontage and safe access, pedestrian improvements, storm drainage, stormwater management facilities, and outdoor lighting for parking areas.