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Williamsburg, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 21-605.3

All Williamsburg districts0

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.

Lot

Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built.
43,560 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (1 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

Servicing

Applies near
Jamestown Road and Richmond Road
Geographic extent
Lots contiguous to Jamestown Road and Richmond Road (between Brooks Street and Virginia Avenue)

Uses

Conditional / special use1

Extracted standards

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

Lighting

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

    shall not produce illumination intensities exceeding 0.1 foot-candles at the property line

Noise

Other

  • Event hours10 time

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

  • Maximum bedrooms for rent10 bedrooms

    No more than ten bedrooms in a small inn may be rented to visitors

  • Maximum guests for weddings/receptions50 persons

    Maximum number of guests shall be 50 people

  • Minimum bedroom rental nights per year to maintain permit100 nights

    shall remain valid only as long as there are at least 100 bedroom rental nights each calendar year

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).
Sec. 21-605.3

Parking requirements

{
  "small inn": "2 spaces + 1 per bedroom"
}