James City County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Sec. 24-518, 24-520, 24-521, 24-522
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right74
- Apartments
- Group homes or residential facilities, for eight or fewer adults
- Group quarters
- Home care facilities
- Home occupations, as defined
- Independent living facilities
- Multi-family dwellings up to and including four dwelling units
- Multi-family dwellings more than four dwelling units
- Single-family dwellings
- Adult day care centers
- Antique shops
- Assisted living facilities
- Automobile rental
- Automobile repair and service including tire, transmission, glass, body and fender, and other automotive products sales (new and/or rebuilt) and service with major repair under cover and storage of parts and vehicle storage screened from adjacent property by landscaping and fencing
- Banks and other similar financial institutions
- Barber and beauty shops
- Business, professional and governmental offices
- Child day care centers
- Community recreation facilities, public or private, including parks, playgrounds, clubhouses, boating facilities, swimming pools, ball fields, tennis courts and other similar recreation facilities
- Continuing care retirement facilities
- Contractor offices, equipment storage yards, shops and warehouses with storage under cover or screened with landscaping and fencing from adjacent property
- Drug stores
- Dry cleaners and laundries
- Employment services or agencies
- Farmer's markets
- Feed, seed and farm supply stores
- Fish farming
- Funeral homes, cemeteries and memorial gardens
- Greenhouses and nurseries
- Health clubs, exercise clubs and fitness centers
- Home occupations as defined
- Hotels, motels, tourist homes and convention centers
- Indoor sport facilities
- Indoor theaters
- Janitorial service establishments
- Limousine service
- Lumber and building supply with storage limited to a fully enclosed building or screened with landscaping and fencing from adjacent property
- Medical offices
- Office supply stores, secretarial and duplicating services
- Parking lots and garages
- Photographer, picture, artist and sculptor stores and studios
- Plumbing and electrical supply with storage limited to a fully enclosed building or screened with landscaping and fencing from adjacent property
- Printing and publishing establishments
- Property maintenance facilities, sheds or garages
- Public billiard parlors, arcades, pool rooms, bowling alleys, dance halls and other indoor centers of amusement
- Rental of rooms to a maximum of three rooms
- Restaurants, tea rooms and taverns
- Retail food stores, bakeries and fish markets
- Security service offices
- Skilled nursing facilities (nursing homes)
- Taxi services
- Vehicle and trailer sales and service (with major repair limited to a fully enclosed building)
- Veterinary hospitals
- Fire stations
- Libraries
- Nonemergency medical transport
- Places of public assembly
- Post offices
- Schools
- Telephone exchanges and telephone switching stations
- Water impoundments, new or expansion of
- Food processing and storage, but not the slaughter of animals
- Heavy equipment sales and service, with major repair under cover or screened with landscaping and fencing from adjacent property
- Hospitals and mental health facilities
- Industrial and technical training schools
- Machinery sales and service with major repair under cover
- Manufacture and assembly of musical instruments, toys, novelties and rubber and metal stamps
- Manufacture, compounding, processing or packaging of cosmetic, toiletry and pharmaceutical products
- Manufacture of pottery and ceramic products, using kilns fired only by gas or electricity
- Manufacture or assembly of appliances, tools, firearms, hardware products and heating, cooling or ventilating equipment
- Manufacture or assembly of electronic instruments, electronic devices or electronic components
- Processing, assembly and manufacture of light industrial products or components, with all storage, processing, assembly and manufacture conducted indoors and under cover, with no dust, noise, odor or other objectionable effect
- Research, development and design facilities or laboratories
- Welding and machine shops with storage limited to a fully enclosed building or screened with landscaping and fencing from adjacent property
Conditional / special use19
- Group homes or residential facilities, for nine or more adults
- Campgrounds
- Fast food restaurants
- Flea markets
- Golf courses
- Marine or waterfront businesses to include the receipt, storage and transshipment of waterborne commerce, or seafood receiving, packing or distribution under cover or screened with landscaping and fencing from adjacent property
- Museums
- Rental of more than three rooms in a single-family dwelling unit
- Shooting ranges, indoor
- Theme parks
- Vape/smoke shop and vape/smoke lounge
- Wineries
- Heliports, helistops and accessory uses
- Petroleum storage
- Publicly owned solid waste container sites
- Resource recovery facilities
- Solid waste transfer stations
- Warehouse, storage and distribution centers with storage under cover or screened with landscaping and fencing from adjacent property
- Water well drilling establishments
Extracted standards
5 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Maximum residential floor area percentage in neighborhood/community commercial50 pct
For areas designated neighborhood commercial or community commercial on the comprehensive plan, all proposed structures should be mixed use structures (vertical mixed use) and residential floor area should not exceed 50 percent of the total floor area.
- Maximum single use category percentage80 pct
To achieve the intent of a mixed use development, more than one land use category shall be used and no single use or use category shall exceed 80 percent of the developable land area within a mixed use area, as delineated on the master plan.
- Perimeter buffer required
A perimeter buffer shall be planned and maintained along the perimeter property lines of the development, except for areas adjacent to rights-of-way. The minimum perimeter buffer depth shall be in accordance with the table below.
- SetbacksSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line./buffers not for streets or parking
Setbacks and/or buffers shall not be used for streets or for parking except for entrances and driveways which may penetrate the setback and/or buffer.
Setback
- No minimum lot size or yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. requirements
Except for required setbacks and/or buffer specified in (a) and (b) above, there shall be no minimum lot size nor minimum front, side or rear yard requirements for any lot within a Mixed Use Development District, MU, other than as specified in approved final plans.
From the ordinance
Development within the mixed use districts shall provide usable open space area. The amount of open space shall be not less than ten percent of the developable area of the site. Structures may be erected up to 60 feet in height. All structures and uses within a mixed use district shall be served by publicly owned and operated water and sewer systems.
Use details
{
"dropped_conditions": {
"permitted_uses": [
"Retail and service stores, including the following stores: books, cabinet, candy, carpet, coin, department, dressmaking, florist, furniture, furrier, garden supply, greeting card, gunsmith (excluding shooting ranges), hardware, home appliance sales and service, ice cream, jewelry sales and service, locksmith, music and records, paint, pet, picture framing, plant supply, shoe, sporting goods, stamp, tailor, toys, travel bureau, upholstery, wearing apparel, and yard goods"
],
"conditional_uses": [
"Transmission pipelines (public or private), including pumping stations and accessory storage, for natural gas, propane gas, petroleum products, chemicals, slurry coal and any other gases, liquids or solids. However, extensions for private connections to existing pipelines, which are intended to serve an individual residential or commercial customer and which are accessory to existing or proposed development, are permitted generally and shall not require a special use permit",
"Water facilities (public or private), and sewer facilities (public), including, but not limited to, treatment plants, pumping stations, storage facilities and transmission mains, wells and associated equipment such as pumps to be owned and operated by political jurisdictions. However, the following are permitted generally and shall not require a special use permit: (a) Private connections to existing mains that are intended to serve an individual customer and that are accessory to existing or proposed development, with no additional connections to be made to the line; and (b) Distribution lines and local facilities within a development, including pump stations",
"Railroad facilities including tracks, bridges and stations. However, spur lines which are to serve and are accessory to existing or proposed development adjacent to existing railroad rights-of-way and track and safety improvements in existing railroad rights-of-way are permitted generally and shall not require a special use permit"
]
}
}