610 Old Mount Cross Rd, Danville, VA 24540

Planned Shopping Center Commercial District

The PS-C District is primarily established to provide locations in Danville for community and sub-regional scaled retail commercial and business service uses within planned shopping districts under unified site design. Regional shopping centers would be governed by special use permit in this district. Application of the PS-C District is intended to promote orderly commercial facility development, minimize vehicular traffic within the shopping complex, permit one-stop and comparison shopping "under one roof" and facilitate safe pedestrian movement among individual uses within the district. Typical uses found in the PS-C District include supermarkets, drug stores, department stores, specialty stores, movie theaters and entertainment centers, personal service establishments and general offices. Uses allowed by-right in the PS-C District are intended to implement Community Service land uses promoted in the City's 2025 Comprehensive Plan, while those uses allowed by special use permits are intended to implement "Regional Service" land uses promoted in the Comprehensive Plan. In general, the maximum size of the PS-C District shopping center, as permitted by-right, should not exceed a total gross floor area of 200,000 sq ft inclusive of all planned buildings or a total site size of fifteen acres, provided that free-standing retail buildings may be permitted within the district. This size limitation corresponds with the typical community shopping center. Individual commercial or business uses which exceed 60,000 sq ft of floor area shall require a special use permit. Under comprehensive planning and special permit considerations, the ultimate district size may be increased at appropriate locations to accommodate larger shopping centers generally, up to 1,000,000 plus sq ft of gross building area serving a regional market base.