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DESCRIPTION OF LAND USE PLAN
Mixed-Use Core
Parcels existing alongside Route 6/522 in the center of the Village are to be
zoned Village Mixed-use, resulting in the creation of a relatively compact,
coherent, walkable activity center. This central core shall extend roughly 3500
feet, bounded by the public library to the north and the historic Courthouse
Square to the south. Gateways will establish the formal boundaries of the
nucleus. In this mixed-use core, a variety of commercial and residential
opportunities, including affordable housing will be made available. Commercial
enterprises shall be limited to smaller-scale offices and retail businesses, which
may be intermixed with residential uses either by means of lot-sharing or existing
as street-level stores with residences above.
Appropriate Commercial uses may include offices, retail stores, business and
banking services, restaurants, café’s, bed & breakfasts and accessory buildings.
Gas stations are permitted, but must adhere to design guidelines outlined below.
Residential dwellings allowed shall include both single and multi-family units up
to 10 units per acre not exceeding three stories and may come in the form of
rental apartments, second-story homes or apartments, condominiums and senior
citizen housing.
Planned Unit Developments
Planned Unit Developments present an opportunity to construct housing in a
development that is based on a unified plan. In this scenario, the County may
offer density bonuses to developers to allow for a greater number of units per
acre to be built. The sites identified on the Future Land Use map (R-PUDs A-D)
occur on large tracts of land (over 20 acres) to the north and south of the Village
center and may require the assembly of multiple parcels. Permitted uses include
single-family, two-family, multi-family and limited commercial uses, which shall
occur only in the form of either neighborhood convenience or community centers
as defined within the official Comprehensive Plan.
Cluster development shall be permitted only upon provision of either central or
public sanitary sewer and water systems. The current R-PUD zoning ordinance
states that the maximum gross residential density shall not exceed two and a half
dwelling units per acre and the maximum net residential density shall not exceed
six dwelling units on any one acre with thirty percent of the total acreage
preserved as open space. The following is an analysis with regards to potential
impact on traffic volumes due to increased population residing in these
prospective planned unit developments.
A Master Plan for Courthouse Village Page 51 of 96
Spring, 2006
Goochland County