Bedford, Virginia · General provision
Sec. 610.04, 610.05, 610.06
Neighborhood WorkplaceAll Bedford districts0
Dimensional standards
Density
Uses
Permitted by right48
- accessory uses
- amusement enterprises
- art or photography studios
- automobile service stations
- bed and breakfast lodging
- blacksmith shop, welding, or machine shop
- bottling plants or distribution operations
- building and contractor's storage and equipment yards
- bus terminal facilities
- childcare centers
- clinics and doctors' offices
- commercial communications equipment
- commercial retail
- commercial services
- eating establishments
- financial institutions
- funeral homes
- government facilities
- home occupations
- homestays
- hotels
- hydroponic agriculture
- indoor sport facilities
- libraries
- lodges
- manufacturing, custom
- manufacturing, light
- meeting and banquet rooms
- motor vehicle sales
- multifamily, townhouse, and multifamily condominium developments
- museums, art galleries, civic or cultural centers, historic exhibits
- offices
- parking facilities, public or private
- pharmaceuticals, diagnostic testing, and other laboratories
- plant nurseries
- printing, bookbinding, and publishing
- private parks, playgrounds and other outdoor recreation, and open space areas
- public parks
- rehabilitation facilities
- religious assembly
- residential uses of all floors in existing commercial structures
- schools
- theaters, auditoriums, and performance venues
- transportation terminal facilities
- veterinary hospital or animal shelter for small animals
- warehousing, mini-storage, or warehouse units totaling less than 15,000 square feet floor gross floor area
- winery, brewery, or distillery
- utilities, public
Conditional / special use14
- automotive repair services, major
- car washes
- emergency homeless shelters
- financial institutions, with drive through
- group homes for children
- homes for adults
- hospital or nursing home
- lumber and/or building materials sales
- manufacturing, heavy
- open air market
- parking structures
- public sanitary or solid waste management facilities
- satellite dishes
- utilities, private
Extracted standards
6 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Design
- Building and street facades must extend parallel to frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street. property lines
Building and street facades must extend parallel to frontage property lines.
Fencing & walls
- Minimum garden wall, fence or hedge heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. along street frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street. adjacent to parking3 ft
A garden wall, fence or hedge with a minimum height of three feet shall be installed along any street frontage adjacent to parking areas.
Other
- Main pedestrian access from street
Main pedestrian access to any building shall be from the street it faces.
- Side and rear setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. equal to adjacent residential districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.
When a parcel zoned CNW abuts a residential district, the side and rear yard setback shall be equal to that of the adjacent residential district.
Parking
- Bed and breakfastBed and breakfastAn owner-occupied dwelling letting a limited number of guest rooms. parking spaces per room1 space per room
off-street parking be provided equal to one space for each lodging room (bedroom).
- Off-street parkingMinimum parkingThe number of off-street spaces a development must provide before it may open. should be located to the rear of all buildings
Unless contained within an on-site structure, off-street parking should be located to the rear of all buildings as allowed by existing site conditions.
From the ordinance
The CNW Zoning District shall have no minimum lot area or minimum lot width. The maximum percentage of any lot that may be covered by the footprint of a building shall be 100 percent. The maximum height of any building shall be limited to 50 feet.