Prince William County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Sec. 32-402.21, 32-402.22, 32-402.23, 32-402.24, 32-402.25
Office High RiseAll Prince William County Unincorporated districts0
Dimensional standards
Lot
- Minimum lot depth
- 0 ft
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right22
- Alarm systems operations, office
- Business school
- College, university or seminary
- Computer and network services
- Cultural arts center
- Data Center within the Data Center Opportunity Zone Overlay District
- Event center/meeting hall
- Financial institution
- Hospital
- Hotel, motel, or short-term lodging
- Institute for special education and training
- Medical care facility, specialized
- Medical or dental laboratory
- Medical or dental office and clinic
- Neighborhood retail and fulfillment center, up to 30,000 square feet in gross floor area
- Office
- Private school (no boarding)
- Religious institution with related facilities (excluding cemeteries)
- Recycling collection points, subject to the standards in section 32-250.84
- Research and development (non-HAZMAT)
- Trade or convention center
- Trade, technical or vocational school
Conditional / special use9
- Bus station, commercial
- Continuing care retirement community
- Data Center outside the Data Center Opportunity Zone Overlay District
- Heliport, secondary only
- Helipad
- Neighborhood retail and fulfillment center, greater than 30,000 square feet in gross floor area, in accordance with county code section 32-400.27
- Radio or TV broadcasting station
- Railroad passenger station, secondary only
- Taxi or limousine dispatching
Accessory22
- Adult day center
- Barber shop, beautician studio, tanning and toning salon (one set of toning equipment only)
- Cafeteria/lunchroom/snack bar/automat
- Child care facility
- Civic club
- Commercial artist or photographer's studio
- Fraternity, sorority, secondary to college, university or seminary (on campus only)
- Helistop
- Live entertainment in accordance with the provisions of section 32-400.15
- Office equipment sales, lease and service
- Photographic processing laboratory
- Parking, commercial
- Quick service food store (not freestanding)
- Recreation facility, commercial (indoor)
- Recreation facility for employees
- Recording studio
- Restaurant
- Restaurant, carry-out
- Retail store
- School of special instruction
- Travel agency
- Watchman's dwelling
Extracted standards
2 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. when abutting agriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them. or residential districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.25 ft
When the side or rear of a lot within an O(H) District abuts an agricultural or residential district, a minimum setback of the greater of 25 feet or the setback imposed by subsection 32-400.03.5 shall apply.
- Alternative street setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. based on heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.
All buildings shall be set back at least 20 feet from any street right-of-way, or one foot for each three feet in building height, whichever is greater.
From the ordinance
Minimum lot size None. Minimum lot width or depth None. All buildings shall be set back at least 20 feet from any street right-of-way, or one foot for each three feet in building height. When the side or rear of a lot within an O(H) District abuts an agricultural or residential district, a minimum setback of the greater of 25 feet or the setback imposed by subsection 32-400.03.5 shall apply.