Richmond, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 30-433.2, 30-433.3, 30-433.5, 30-433.6, 30-433.7, 30-433.8

Urban BusinessAll Richmond districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETbuildable areaFront 0 ftRear 0 ftSide 0 ftMAX HEIGHT28 ft
Plan view of the district’s stated lot requirements. Solid line: the property line. Dashed: the setback lines the ordinance imposes; a building must stay inside the tinted envelope. Drawn from the figures extracted below — illustrative, not a survey.

Uses

Permitted by right9

  • Retail stores and shops
  • Rights-of-way, easements and appurtenances necessary for the provision and maintenance of public utilities and public transportation
  • Sales lots for Christmas trees, vegetable stands and other seasonal uses
  • Service businesses that service, repair or rent audio or video equipment, home appliances, furniture, personal recreational equipment, home yard and garden equipment, tools, bicycles, locks, computers, office machines and similar household or business items
  • Shopping centers containing uses permitted in this district
  • Tourist homes
  • Wireless communications facilities, microwave relay facilities, and radio broadcast antennas, on alternative support structures
  • Short-term rental
  • Accessory uses and structures

Extracted standards

5 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.

Other

Parking

  • Parking and circulation areas not between main building and street

    Areas devoted to the parking or circulation of vehicles in the UB Urban Business District shall not be located between the main building on a lot and the street line, nor shall such areas be located closer to the street than the main building on the lot.

From the ordinance

No front yard shall be required, except that no newly constructed building or addition to an existing building shall extend closer to the street than any building on an abutting lot. In no case shall a front yard greater than 15 feet in depth be required on any lot. No building or structure shall exceed 28 feet in height.
Sec. 30-433.2, 30-433.3, 30-433.5, 30-433.6, 30-433.7, 30-433.8