Dimensional standards
Lot
Height & bulk
- Minimum landscaping
- 30%
Housing
Servicing
- Applies near
- Bypass Road, Capitol Landing Road, Colonial Parkway, Lafayette Street, North Henry Street/Route 132, Route 132Y
- Geographic extent
- Front yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. of 35 ft for lots fronting on Bypass Road, Capitol Landing Road, Colonial Parkway, Lafayette Street, North Henry Street/Route 132, and Route 132Y
Uses
Permitted by right13
- Single-family detached dwellings (one per lot)
- Churches and other permanent buildings used for religious worship
- Expansion of existing hotels/motels and timeshare units (max 25% increase)
- Expansion of existing restaurants (max 25% increase)
- Pastures
- Playgrounds, parks and unlighted athletic fields owned/operated by City
- Public art
- Public buildings owned/operated by City or Historic Triangle Recreational Facilities Authority
- Public or private schools, colleges, universities
- Support facilities for Colonial Williamsburg (list)
- Off-street parking and loading areas
- Signs
- Accessory uses
Conditional / special use10
- Rental of bedrooms to roomers (special exception)
- Food trucks (special use permit)
- Golf courses (special use permit)
- Hotels/motels and timeshare units (new) (special use permit)
- Lighted athletic fields (special use permit)
- Outdoor special events (special use permit)
- Parking garages (special use permit)
- Restaurants (new) (special use permit)
- Radio/cellular towers (DAS) (special use permit)
- Support facilities for Colonial Williamsburg (list) (special use permit)
Extracted standards
3 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Greenbelt width along designated streets50 ft
a greenbelt of at least 50 feet shall be provided along the street line; except that at least 75 feet shall be required along Route 199.
- Greenbelt width along Route 19975 ft
at least 75 feet shall be required along Route 199
- Transitional screening width when adjacent to residential or Colonial Parkway35 ft
A landscaped open space area for transitional screening at least 35 feet in width shall be provided along side and rear property lines when adjacent to a lot in a residential zoning district or to the Colonial Parkway, except that no transitional screening shall be required for single-family detached dwellings.
From the ordinance
Single-family detached dwellings: min lot area 10,000 sq ft, min lot width 50 ft, front yard 15 ft (35 ft on certain roads), side yards 10 ft, rear yard 25 ft, height 35 ft, landscaped open space 30% for other uses.