Richmond, Virginia · General provision
Sec. 30-430.1 through 30-430.8
Hotel OfficeAll Richmond districts0
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right19
- any principal use permitted in the R-1 district
- single-family attached dwellings
- two-family dwellings
- multifamily dwellings
- day nurseries
- tourist homes situated on Federal highways
- parking areas and parking lots
- parking decks serving uses permitted in this district
- 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
- private schools offering instruction in skills practiced in connection with the operation of uses permitted in this district
- lodges and similar meeting places
- banks and savings and loan offices, including accessory automated teller machines
- funeral homes
- hospitals, but not psychiatric hospitals for the care of patients committed by a court
- radio broadcasting studios and offices, including accessory antennas
- communications centers and telephone repeater stations operated by public service corporations
- hotels and motels
- adult day care facilities
- short-term rental
Accessory2
- any accessory use or structure permitted in the R-1 district
- retail stores and shops, eating and drinking establishments, entertainment and recreational uses, personal service establishments, automated teller machines accessible only from the interior of buildings, travel agencies and airline ticket offices
Extracted standards
3 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- HeightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. plane restriction
no portion of a building shall penetrate inclined planes originating at the centerlines of abutting streets and extending over the lot at an inclination of one foot horizontal for each three feet vertical along any street frontage where a front yard is required and one foot horizontal for each four feet vertical along other street frontages
Other
- Minimum building separation15 ft
the distance between any two such buildings shall be not less than 15 feet
Parking
- Parking screening opacity45 pct
Parking spaces contained therein shall be screened from view from abutting streets by structural material of not less than 45 percent opacity
From the ordinance
HO Hotel-Office District. Front yard 15 ft for dwellings. FAR 4.6. Usable open space ratio 0.10. Portions over 35 ft occupy not more than 35% of land area.