Working Waterfront District
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right15
- Accessory uses, structures and buildings
- Artist and artisan studio
- Aquaculture operation
- Basic utilities
- Farm stand
- Fishing, commercial
- Marina
- Short term rental
- Temporary construction office
- Transit stop
- Uses similar to permitted uses
- Water resource based guide services and tourism activities
- Wildlife and marine life preservation area
- Working waterfront uses, structures and buildings
- Working waterfront support uses, structures and buildings
Conditional / special use10
- Dredge spoil disposal site
- Government offices
- Museum
- Research facility
- Uses similar to special use permit uses
- Utility distribution plant or yard
- Wind turbine, small scale and wind mill 35 ft. in total height
- Wind turbine, small scale > 35 ft. and 120 ft. in total height
- Wind turbine, small scale > 120 ft. and 199 ft. in total height
- Wireless communication facility
Accessory1
Extracted standards
4 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Environmental
- Resource protection area buffer supersedes setbacksSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
the resource protection area buffer shall serve as and supersede all setbacks and shall be modified as provided in § 154.2.163 Chesapeake/Atlantic Preservation Areas (CAP).
Lot
- Minimum lot frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street. reduction for cul-de-sac or pipe stem lots25 ft
Minimum lot frontage may be reduced to 25 feet when the lot fronts on a cul-de-sac or when the lot is designed in conformance with the standards for a pipe stem lot.
Other
- Side and/or rear setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. reduction when abutting broader zone list0 ft
If a lot is zoned NB, WV-NB, WV-WC, TE-NB, TE-CG, EI, EB, C-1 or WW abuts a lot that is zoned NB, WV-NB, WV-WC, TE-NB, TE-CG, EI, EB, C-1 or WW, the side and/or rear minimum setback shall be reduced to 0 feet pursuant to § 154.2.141 General Modification to Yard Regulations.
- Side and rear setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. reduction when abutting certain zones0 ft
If a lot zoned WW, WV-NB, WV-WC, C-1 or EI abut a lot that is zoned WW, WV-NB, WV-WC, C-1 or EI, the side and rear minimum setbacks shall be reduced to 0 feet.
From the ordinance
The intent of the Working Waterfront district is to provide for commercial waterfront uses. This district also provides for other non-residential uses.