Dimensional standards
Lot
Height & bulk
- Minimum landscaping
- 30%
Uses
Permitted by right16
- Banks and financial institutions
- Data processing centers
- Offices: business, professional and governmental
- Manufacture or assembly of electronic instruments, components and devices
- Manufacture or assembly of medical, drafting, metering, marine, photographic or mechanical instruments
- Manufacture or assembly of musical instruments, toys and novelties
- Other manufacture/assembly operations of similar scale and intensity
- Printing, lithographing, engraving, photocopying, blueprinting and publishing establishments
- Public buildings owned and/or operated by the City of Williamsburg
- Research, development and testing facilities
- Storage of materials and supplies incidental to permitted use
- Warehouses, storage and distribution centers
- Wholesale businesses
- Off-street parking and loading areas
- Signs
- Accessory uses
Conditional / special use2
- Public transportation and vehicle maintenance facilities
- Radio communication towers and antennas (not visible from Colonial Williamsburg historic area)
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
Along streets designated by the comprehensive plan as greenbelts, 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.
- Stair towers, equipment penthouses, mechanical equipment and screening walls exempt from heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. limits
Stair towers, equipment penthouses, mechanical equipment and screening walls are exempt from the height limitations, provided that they shall not cover more than 30 percent of the total roof area and shall not exceed the building height by more than ten feet.
- 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.
From the ordinance
Permitted uses... lot width 100 ft at building line... front yard 50 ft... side yard 15 ft... rear yard 25 ft... height 45 ft... landscaped open space 30%