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Ordinance chapter · Greene County Unincorporated, Virginia

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Greene County Unincorporated, VA Zoning Ordinance#

ARTICLE 1#

  • AUTHORITY, INTENT, AND ENACTMENT

ARTICLE 2#

  • ZONING DISTRICTS

ARTICLE 3#

  • CONSERVATION DISTRICT, C-1

ARTICLE 4#

  • AGRICULTURAL DISTRICT, A-1

ARTICLE 5#

  • RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT, R-1

ARTICLE 6#

  • RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT, R-2

ARTICLE 6A#

  • SENIOR RESIDENTIAL, SR (REVISED 5/10/05)

ARTICLE 7#

  • PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT PUD (REVISED 5/18/04)

ARTICLE 8#

  • BUSINESS RESTRICTED, B-1

8-1 - Use regulations.#

8-2 - Sewer regulations.#

8-3 - Setback regulations.#

8-4 - Yard regulations.#

8-5 - Height regulation.#

8-7 - General regulations.#

8-8 - Sign regulations.#

8-9 - Site development plan regulations.#

8-10 - Off-street parking.#

ARTICLE 9#

  • BUSINESS GENERAL, B-2

ARTICLE 10#

  • BUSINESS HIGHWAY AND HIGH INTENSITY, B-3

ARTICLE 10A#

  • TECHNOLOGY/FLEX RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, TRFD DISTRICT

ARTICLE 11#

  • INDUSTRIAL LIMITED, M-1

ARTICLE 12#

  • INDUSTRIAL GENERAL, M-2

ARTICLE 13#

  • GENERAL FLOODPLAIN DISTRICT, FP

ARTICLE 14#

  • SIGN REGULATIONS (REVISED 5/23/2023)

ARTICLE 15#

  • NON-CONFORMING USES

ARTICLE 16#

  • GENERAL PROVISIONS

ARTICLE 17#

  • PROVISIONS FOR APPEAL

ARTICLE 18#

  • AMENDMENTS AND REZONING

ARTICLE 19#

  • SITE DEVELOPMENT PLAN

ARTICLE 20#

  • ADMINISTRATION, INTERPRETATION AND ENFORCEMENT

ARTICLE 21#

  • TELECOMMUNICATION ANTENNAS AND TOWERS

ARTICLE 22#

  • DEFINITIONS (REVISED 7/12/16)

Greene County Unincorporated City Zoning Code#

ARTICLE 8 - BUSINESS RESTRICTED, B-1#B-1

Statement of intent. This district is designed primarily to serve as a transition area between general commercial activities and residential land uses, and to provide areas for businesses and services which are dependent on local neighborhood patronage. Establishments requiring heavy trucking or characterized by other nuisance factors are prohibited.

8-1 - Use regulations.#

In the Business District B-1, structures to be erected or land to be used shall be for the following uses:

8-1-1 Uses permitted by right. (Revised 7/8/14)#

  1. Accessory uses or structures as defined
  2. Art galleries and museums
  3. Art studios
  4. Astrology, card reading, palm reading and fortune telling shops
  5. Banks/financial institutions with or without drive-up windows
  6. Barber/beauty shops
  7. Coffee shops
  8. Day care and child care facilities
  9. Church, convents, monasteries, rectories and parish houses
  10. Craft and artisan trade
  11. Employment agencies
  12. Farmer market
  13. Fingernail salons
  14. Loan offices
  15. Professional offices
  16. Public facilities
  17. Public utilities
  18. Temporary buildings for construction purposes (not to exceed duration of construction)
  19. Tourist information center
  20. Temporary events zoning permit as defined by section 16-19 (Revised 6/26/12)
  21. Food bank, food pantry, or similar uses (Revised 7/8/14)
  22. Mobile food unit (Revised 10/14/14)
  23. Health and fitness centers
  24. Rooftop and ground mounted solar

8-1-2 Uses permitted by special use permit. (Revised 5/12/09)#

  1. Clubs
  2. Emergency care facilities
  3. Indoor recreational facilities
  4. Telecommunication antennas and towers
  5. Water or sewer treatment facilities
  6. Solar energy generation facilities
  7. Power generating plants
  8. Gas and oil facilities

(Ord. of 6-12-18; Ord. No. 20-04, 11-10-20; Ord. of 07-08-2025(1); Ord. of 07-22-2025(1))

8-2 - Sewer regulations.#

Where the sewage treatment demand exceeds 5,000 gallons per day, permitted uses shall be served by a central sewer facility as approved by the health department and department of environmental quality. The standard shall also apply to commercial developments with multiple uses that cumulatively exceed 5,000 gallons per day. Where a permitted use involves new construction and is located within 350 feet of an available sewer collection line of a central sewer facility, such use shall be subject to a mandatory connection to that system.§

(Ord. of 6-12-18)

8-3 - Setback regulations.#

There is no minimal lot size in a B-1 zone other than the area required to meet the standards for setbacks, sewage treatment, or other standards required by this ordinance.

8-3-1#

Structures except signs shall be located 25 feet or more from the edge of the right-of-way of any road with three lanes or more, or 15 feet or more from the edge of the right-of-way of any road with two lanes or less.§ This shall be known as the setback line. (Revised 5/28/13)

8-3-2#

Public telephone booths may be located within the required setback, but no closer to any street than the existing right-of-way line or right-of-way reservation line, provided that:

  1. Such booths shall be equipped for emergency service to the public without prior payment;
  2. The location of every booth shall be determined by the zoning administrator to ensure that the same will not adversely affect the safety of the adjacent highway;
  3. Every such booth shall be subject to relocation, at the expense of the owner, whenever such relocation shall be determined by the zoning administrator to be reasonably necessary to protect the public health, safety and welfare or whenever the same shall be necessary to accommodate the widening of the adjacent highway.

(Ord. of 6-12-18)

8-4 - Yard regulations.#

8-4-1#

The minimum side and rear yards adjoining or adjacent to a residential, agricultural, or conservation district shall be 45 feet.

8-4-2#

Accessory structures and uses, including parking areas, shall be located 20 or more feet from side and rear lot lines adjoining or adjacent to a residential district.§

(Ord. of 6-12-18)

8-5 - Height regulation.#

Buildings may be erected up to 35 feet in height from grade, except that:

8-5-1#

The height limit for buildings may be 50 feet from grade provided that required front, side and rear yards shall be increased one foot for each foot in height over 35 feet.§ (Revised 2/26/13)

8-5-2#

Church spires, belfries, cupolas, monuments, water towers, chimneys, flues, flagpoles, television antennae, and radio aerials are exempt. Parapet walls may be up to four feet above the height of the building on which the walls rest.§

8-5-3#

The board of supervisors may authorize, by special exception, issued in accordance with all applicable procedural requirements, to increase the building height regulations. (Revised 2/26/13)

(Ord. of 6-12-18)

8-7 - General regulations.#

Screening, including an evergreen hedge, a uniformly painted solid fence, a masonry wall, or a combination thereof, of permitted uses may be required by the administrator.§

(Ord. of 6-12-18)

8-8 - Sign regulations.#

Signs shall conform to article 14 of this ordinance.§

(Ord. of 6-12-18)

8-9 - Site development plan regulations.#

New uses and changes in use in the B-1 District shall submit a site development plan prior to application for a building permit according to article 19 of this ordinance.§

(Ord. of 6-12-18)

8-10 - Off-street parking.#

Off-street parking shall be provided as required by article 16 of this ordinance.§

(Ord. of 6-12-18)