656 Mount Cross Rd, Danville, VA 24540

Highway Retail Commercial District

The HR-C District is established to provide suitable locations in Danville's heavily traveled collector streets and arterial highways for those commercial and business uses which are oriented to the automobile and which require regional access characteristics independent of the marketplace attributable to adjoining neighborhoods or pedestrian trade. The application of the HR-C District should be to those areas of the City where individual uses can be grouped into planned concentrations which limit the "strip" development effect on newly developing areas as well as on redevelopment areas where retail and business uses currently exist. In addition, the Corridor Overlay District may impact the regulation of uses in this district. Adequate transportation and site planning of uses within the HR-C District should have the goal of minimizing conflicts with through-traffic movements along the entrance City's corridors and major arterial streets. The HR-C District is not intended to be applied to shopping centers. Given the implications of traffic, pedestrian access, landscaping, and inter-parcel connections, large-scale individual retailers in excess of 60,000 per establishment typically referred to as big boxes or superstores shall require a special use permit. Minimum site improvements for uses within the HR-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.