Accomack County Unincorporated, Virginia · District
B-1
General Business District
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right116
- Accounting, auditing and bookkeeping services
- Advertising agencies
- Agricultural equipment repair
- Antennas and towers
- Antique shops, thrift shops, and consignment shops
- Appliance sales and service
- Art, music, dance, and martial arts schools and studios
- Artists studios, photographic studios, and galleries
- Attorneys and legal services
- Auction houses
- Auto, recreational vehicle, and marine sales and service
- Automobile service stations
- Bakeries (retail)
- Banks and similar financial institutions, tax return services
- Barber and beauty shops, tanning salons
- Blacksmith, welding, metal fabrication, and machine shops
- Boat docks, private (non-commercial)
- Botanical and zoological gardens and parks
- Bowling centers
- Building cleaning and maintenance services
- Cabinet making and furniture manufacturing
- Camera and photography sales and service
- Campgrounds and RV parks
- Carnival operations
- Car washes
- Cemeteries
- Churches and other houses of worship
- Colleges and universities
- Commercial kennels
- Computer programming, data processing, and other computer related services
- Contractors offices and contractor equipment yards
- Convenience stores
- Day care centers (child and adult)
- Design and research laboratories
- Detective, guard, and armored car services, security system services
- Drugstores
- Elementary and secondary schools
- Employment agencies
- Engineering, architectural, and surveying services
- Facilities for grading, packing, marketing, and storage of agricultural and horticultural products
- Feed, seed and farm supply stores
- Fire and rescue stations
- Flea markets
- Florists, plant and flower sales
- Framing shops
- Funeral homes
- Furnace and chimney cleaning
- Furniture and furnishings stores
- General equipment rental and leasing
- General merchandise, variety, and department stores
- Government institutional buildings
- Go-cart raceways
- Golf courses
- Grocery and food stores and markets
- Gunsmiths
- Hardware, glass, paint, floor covering, wallpaper, and fabric stores
- Home appliance sales, service and repair
- Horticultural nurseries and greenhouses, with garden supplies
- Hospitals, nursing homes and residential care
- Hotels, motels, tourist homes and bed and breakfast inns
- Indoor theaters, museums, and assembly halls
- Job training and vocational rehabilitation services
- Laundries and dry cleaners
- Libraries
- Limousine and cab services
- Liquor stores
- Locksmiths
- Lodges, civic clubs, fraternal organizations, and service clubs
- Lumber and building supply
- Machinery sales and service
- Manufacturing of building components, such as trusses
- Manufacturing of apparel and other finished products made from fabrics and similar materials
- Manufacturing of electrical and electronic equipment and machines including parts and components
- Manufacturing of paperboard containers and boxes
- Manufacturing of pottery, figures, ceramic products
- Manufactured home sales
- Marinas, private (non-commercial)
- Mailing, reproduction, and stenographic services
- Medical clinics and offices
- Medical equipment rental and leasing
- Membership sports and recreation clubs
- Miniature golf courses
- Museums
- Office buildings and business offices
- Off-street parking, as required by this chapter
- Outdoor centers of amusement
- Outdoor sports facilities
- Pest control services
- Photo finishing laboratories
- Physical fitness facilities
- Playgrounds, parks, and similar recreational facilities (community operated)
- Plumbing and electrical supply
- Post offices
- Printing and publishing
- Production of arts and crafts
- Public billiard parlors, arcades, pool rooms, dance halls
- Utility distribution facilities
- Radio, television, consumer electronics, and music stores
- Real estate sales offices and other brokerage sales offices
- Restaurants
- Research, development, and testing laboratories
- Retail sales stores including gifts, books, stationary, wearing apparel, sporting goods, jewelry, hobby and crafts, toys, collectibles, and pet stores
- Re-upholstery and furniture repair
- Self storage centers
- Shoe repair shops
- Small engine and lawnmower repair
- Travel agencies
- Vehicle rentals
- Veterinary offices, clinic or hospitals
- Video tape rental
- Vocational schools
- Watch, clock and jewelry repair
- Waterfront business
- Wholesale and processing and manufacture of products or components
- Small wind energy systems
- Small solar energy systems
Conditional / special use30
- Antennas and towers in excess of 100 feet in height
- Automobile graveyards
- Boat manufacturing
- Manufacturing, compounding, packaging of bakery goods, beverages (including bottling plants), candy, cosmetics, and perfumes
- Meat, poultry, and seafood processing
- Research, development, and testing laboratories
- Residential uses, including single-family dwellings, not as an accessory to an approved use
- Sand and gravel borrow pit operations, including all necessary equipment, up to five acres in area
- Tattoo parlors
- Truck terminals
- The keeping of agricultural animals
- Remote water and sewer facilities, when required to replace failed or failing facilities
- Small wind energy systems, as defined, on parcels less than one acre
- Large solar energy systems, as defined
- Large wind energy systems, as defined
- Commercial sports arenas, stadiums, and race-tracks
- Commercial, professional, institutional, and shopping centers developing areas of more than five acres
- Warehousing and wholesale distribution facilities over 40,000 square feet of interior space, or developing a site of over two acres
- Utility plant facilities
- Public water and sewer facilities
- Central water and sewer facilities
- Remote water and sewer facilities
- Sand and gravel borrow pit operations, including all necessary equipment, greater than five acres in area
- Airports
- Large wind energy systems, Utility Scale, as defined
- Large solar energy systems, Utility Scale, as defined
- Uses involving the storage, use, processing, and production of hazardous chemicals
- Uses where objectionable odors and airborne irritants outside the facility boundary may occur
- Uses where the potential for dust explosions exists
- Wetlands off-site compensatory mitigation sites
Extracted standards
18 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. of accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. building within 10 ft of lot line18 ft
No accessory building or structure which is within ten feet of any lot line shall be more than 18 feet high.
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. of small wind energy system on parcel >=1 acreacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.100 ft
or a maximum height of 100 feet on a parcel of one acre or more.
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. of small wind energy system on parcel <1 acreacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.65 ft
Small wind energy systems shall not exceed a height of 65 feet on a parcel of less than one acre.
Lighting
- Maximum wattage for unshielded building-mounted lights25 W (LED) or 160 W (incandescent)
Other building mounted lights that use an LED light source of 25 watts or less, an incandescent of 160 watts or less.
- Light glare restriction
Light or glare directed from any lighting fixture shall not cross property lines.
- Maximum wattage for unshielded site lighting25 W (LED) or 160 W (incandescent)
Lighting for sidewalks, paths, ground mounted accent lighting is permitted, provided that the LED light or similar source is 25 watts or less and incandescent bulb or 160 watts or less.
Other
- Minimum caliper for deciduous trees at planting2.5 in
A minimum caliper of two and one-half inches at the time of planting shall be required.
- Minimum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. for evergreen trees at planting5 ft
Evergreen trees shall have a minimum height of five feet at the time of planting.
- Front setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. along US Route 13100 ft
When a structure fronts on US Route 13, the building shall be located 100 feet or more from the highway right-of-way.
- Minimum width of landscape areas10 ft
Landscape areas shall be a minimum width of ten feet.
- Minimum caliper for large deciduous trees at planting2.5 in
A minimum caliper of two and one-half inches at the time of planting shall be required.
- Large deciduous tree ratio1 tree per 10,000 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built.
At least one large deciduous tree for every 10,000 square feet of lot area.
- Minimum percentage of native plants50 pct
A minimum of 50 percent of plants shall be native plants.
- Off-street parkingMinimum parkingThe number of off-street spaces a development must provide before it may open. setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from street right-of-way10 ft
Off-street parking shall be set back ten feet or more from any street right-of-way.
- Minimum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. for shrubs at planting2 ft
Shrubs shall have a minimum height of two feet at the time of planting.
- Shrub planting ratio1 shrub per 10 linear feet
At least one shrub for each ten linear feet.
- Small wind energy system setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from property lines1.5 ft per ft of tower heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.
Small wind energy systems shall be set back one and one-half feet from adjacent property lines for every one foot of tower height.
- Tree planting ratio1 tree per 50 linear feet
At least one tree for each 50 linear feet.
From the ordinance
General Business District B-1 regulations including uses, setbacks, height, landscape, and lighting.