Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right22
- Adult day care facilities
- Art galleries
- Banks, savings and loan offices and similar financial services, including accessory automated teller machines
- Catering businesses
- Contractors' shops, service and supply establishments, wholesale and distribution establishments and similar uses
- Day nurseries licensed by and subject to the requirements of the State of Virginia Department of Social Services
- Dry cleaning and laundering establishments
- Dwelling units contained within the same building as other permitted principal uses
- Grocery stores, convenience stores and specialty food and beverage stores, including bakeries
- Laundromats and laundry and dry cleaning pick-up stations
- Libraries, museums, parks and noncommercial recreational facilities, when such uses are owned or operated by a governmental agency or a nonprofit organization
- Nightclubs lawfully existing on the effective date of the ordinance
- Office supply, business and office service, photocopy and custom printing establishments
- Offices, including business, professional and administrative offices, medical and dental offices and clinics, and studios of writers, designers and artists engaged in the graphic arts
- Parking areas and parking lots
- Parking decks and parking garages
- Personal service businesses that provide services directly to persons or services for personal items
- Pet shops, veterinary clinics and animal hospitals, including boarding kennels operated in conjunction therewith
- Postal and package mailing services, but not including package distribution centers
- Professional, business and vocational schools when located above the ground floor of buildings
- Recreation and entertainment uses, including theaters, museums and amusement centers
- Restaurants, tearooms, cafes, delicatessens, ice cream parlors and similar food and beverage service establishments
Extracted standards
19 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Animal facilities must be enclosed and soundproof
all facilities shall be located within completely enclosed and air conditioned buildings which are soundproof to the extent that sounds produced by animals kept or treated therein are not audible outside the building
- Covered trash containers required
Covered trash containers shall be provided in service areas, and fences, walls or vegetative screening shall be provided around service areas
- Dwelling unitsDwelling unitOne independent home: its own kitchen, bathroom and entrance. must be above ground floor or to the rear
such dwelling units shall be located above the ground floor of the building or to the rear of other permitted principal uses so as not to interrupt commercial frontage in the district
- Maximum dry cleaning capacity50 lbs
the total capacity of all dry cleaning machines shall not exceed 50 pounds dry weight
- Maximum employees for catering businesses5 persons
provided that not more than five persons are employed on the premises in the conduct of any such business
- Maximum employees for personal service businesses5 persons
provided that not more than five persons are employed on the premises in the conduct of any repair or fabrication activity
- Maximum employees for printing establishments5 persons
provided that not more than five persons are employed on the premises in the conduct of any printing establishment
- Maximum laundry capacity125 lbs
the total capacity of all laundry machines shall not exceed 125 pounds dry weight
- Maximum service vehicle weight6,500 lbs
No service or delivery vehicle exceeding an empty weight of 6,500 pounds shall be used in connection with such use
- Maximum warehouse floor area2,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Not more than 2,000 square feet of floor area shall be used for warehouse purposes
- Minimum distance from residential districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.100 ft
No deck, patio, terrace or other area outside a completely enclosed building and used for the service or accommodation of patrons shall be situated within 100 feet of any property in any R district
- Minimum ground floor commercial area1,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
the ground floor area devoted to other permitted principal uses shall be a minimum of one-third or 1,000 square feet, whichever is greater, of the floor area of the ground floor of the building
- Minimum ground floor commercial depth20 ft
shall be not less than 20 feet in depth along the entire length of a principal street frontage
- Outside storage prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
There shall be no outside storage of equipment, materials or supplies
- Recreation and entertainment uses must be enclosed
when such uses are located within completely enclosed buildings
- Schools must be above ground floor
Professional, business and vocational schools when located above the ground floor of buildings
Parking
- Minimum exit and entrance lanes per 300 parking spaces1 lane per 300 spaces
Not less than one exit lane and one entrance lane shall be provided for each 300 parking spaces or major fraction thereof contained within the structure
- Minimum parkingMinimum parkingThe number of off-street spaces a development must provide before it may open. screen opacity45 pct
Parking spaces contained therein shall be screened from view from abutting streets by structural material of not less than 45 percent opacity
- Minimum stacking spaces for access control device1 spaces
any card reader or other access control device at an entrance to a parking area or parking lot shall be provided with not less than one stacking space situated off the public right-of-way
From the ordinance
The uses of buildings and premises listed in this section shall be permitted in the UB district, provided that drive-up facilities and facilities for dispensing motor fuels shall not be permitted in conjunction with any of the uses permitted in the district.