Williamsburg, Virginia · General provision

Section 21-605.3

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA1 ac
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.

Density

Maximum units
10

Servicing

Applies near
Jamestown Road and Richmond Road
Geographic extent
Only on lots contiguous to Jamestown Road and Richmond Road (between Brooks Street and Virginia Avenue) and front door faces those roads.

Uses

Conditional / special use1

Extracted standards

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

Other

  • Maximum guests for weddings/receptions50 persons

    Maximum number of guests shall be 50 people

  • Event hours

    Weddings, receptions and special events shall be limited to between 10:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m.

  • Maximum exterior lighting at property line0.1 foot-candles

    Exterior lighting shall be limited to fixtures and illumination intensities that will not produce illumination intensities exceeding 0.1 foot-candles at the property line.

  • Maximum bedrooms rented to visitors10 bedrooms

    No more than ten bedrooms in a small inn may be rented to visitors with a special use permit approved by the city council

  • Maximum visitors per bedroom2 persons

    No more than two visitors shall occupy a bedroom at the same time, except for any child under 16 years of age

  • Parking screening required

    Parking shall be screened from adjoining residences and adjacent street(s) by an element of the building, fence, wall or landscape buffer

From the ordinance

Small inns shall be approved as a special use permit by the city council... No more than ten bedrooms in a small inn may be rented to visitors with a special use permit approved by the city council, with a minimum lot size of one acre (43,560 square feet).
Section 21-605.3

Parking requirements

{
  "small inn": "2 off-street spaces for the inn plus 1 per bedroom"
}