Virginia Beach, Virginia · District
B-1A
B-1A Limited Community Business District
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right19
- Business studios, offices and clinics
- Drugstores, beauty shops and barbershops and other similar personal service establishments
- Eating and drinking establishments without drive-through windows, except as specified below
- Funeral homes
- Furniture repair and upholstering, repair services for radio and television and household appliances other than those with gasoline engines; carpet and linoleum laying; tile setting, sign shops and other small service businesses
- Greenhouses and plant nurseries
- Laundry and dry cleaning agencies
- Liquor stores, package only
- Medical and dental offices and clinics
- Museums and art galleries
- Newspaper printing and publishing, job and commercial printing
- Outdoor cafes
- Outdoor plazas
- Personal service establishments, other than those listed separately
- Public buildings and grounds
- Repair and sales for radio and television and other household appliances and small business machines
- Specialty shops
- Wind energy conversion systems, freestanding, except as provided below
- Wind energy conversion systems, roof-mounted, except as provided below
Conditional / special use9
- Assembly uses
- Automobile museums
- Colleges and universities, public or private
- Communication towers standard process
- Day-care centers and child care education centers
- Fiber-optics transmission facilities
- Home-based wildlife rehabilitation facilities
- Radio and television broadcasting stations
- Wildlife rehabilitation centers
Prohibited32
- Bars or nightclubs
- Bed and breakfast inns
- Bicycle and moped rental establishments
- Boat sales
- Body piercing establishments
- Borrow pits
- Commercial parking lots, parking garages, parking structures and storage garages
- Commercial parking garages and storage garages which include car wash, car rental or car detailing services when wholly enclosed within a parking structure and accessory thereto
- Dormitories for marine pilots
- Dwellings, Attached
- Dwellings, Multi-family
- Eating and drinking establishments without drive-through windows, when not freestanding and incorporated inside a mixed use building, except as otherwise specified in this section
- Eating and drinking establishments with drive-through windows, except as specified below
- Group Home
- Heliports and helistops
- Home occupations
- Hospitals and sanitariums
- Hotels and motels
- Laboratories and establishments for the production and repair of eye glasses, hearing aids and prosthetic devices
- Marinas, commercial
- Medical laboratories
- Mobile home sales
- Off-site parking facilities, subject to the provisions of subsection (d)
- Open-air markets
- Passenger transportation terminals
- Public utilities offices
- Public utility storage or maintenance installations
- Satellite wagering facility
- Short-term rental
- Single room occupancy facility
- Storage garages
- Tattoo parlors
From the ordinance
The maximum height for all uses and structures within the B-1 Neighborhood Business District and B-1A Limited Community Business District shall be thirty-five (35) feet.
Use details
{
"dropped_conditions": {
"permitted_uses": [
"Animal hospitals, veterinary establishments, pounds, shelters, commercial kennels, provided all animals shall be kept in soundproofed, air-conditioned buildings",
"Bakeries, confectioneries and delicatessens, provided that products prepared or processed on the premises shall be sold only at retail and only on the premises",
"Public utilities installations and substations provided storage and maintenance facilities shall not be permitted; and provided further that utilities substations, other than individual transformers, shall be surrounded by Category IV screening solid except for entrances and exits; and provided also, transformer vaults for underground utilities and the like shall require only Category I screening, solid except for access openings"
],
"prohibited_uses": [
"Automobile repair garages and small engine repair establishments, provided that all repair work shall be performed within a building",
"Motor vehicle sales and rental, provided such use is wholly enclosed within a building, and further provided that no outdoor use accessory to or in conjunction with the principal use shall be allowed"
],
"conditional_uses": [
"Recreational and amusement facilities of an outdoor nature, which may be partially or temporarily enclosed on a seasonal basis with approval of city council; provided that, in the development of such properties, safeguards are provided to preserve and protect the existing character of adjacent properties, except that riding academies and recreational campgrounds shall not be allowed as a conditional use or otherwise"
]
}
}