Accomack County Unincorporated, Virginia · District
B-2
Limited Business District B-2
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right71
- Accounting, auditing and bookkeeping services
- Advertising agencies
- Antennas and towers up to 100 feet in height
- 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
- Automobile service stations and gasoline filling stations (with major repair under cover)
- Bakeries (retail)
- Banks and similar financial institutions, tax return services
- Barber and beauty shops, tanning salons
- Boat docks, private (non-commercial)
- Building, cleaning and maintenance services
- Camera and photography sales and service
- Cemeteries
- Churches and other houses of worship
- Computer programming, data processing, and other computer related services
- Convenience stores
- Detective, guard, and armored car services, security system services
- Drugstores
- Dwellings as an accessory to a permitted use
- Employment agencies
- Engineering, architectural, and surveying services
- Feed, seed and farm supply stores
- 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
- Grocery and food stores and markets
- Hardware, glass, paint, floor covering, wallpaper, and fabric stores
- Home appliance sales, service and repair
- Horticultural nurseries and greenhouses with garden supplies
- Indoor theaters, museums, and assembly halls
- Libraries
- Limousine and cab services
- Liquor stores
- Locksmiths
- Lodges, civic clubs, fraternal organizations, and service clubs
- Lumber and building supply (with storage under cover)
- Mailing, reproduction, and stenographic services
- Marinas, private (non-commercial)
- Medical clinics and offices
- Medical equipment rental and leasing
- Office buildings and business offices
- Off-street parking, as required by this chapter
- Pest control services
- Photo finishing laboratories
- Physical fitness facilities
- Playgrounds, parks, and similar recreational facilities (community operated)
- Plumbing and electrical supply (with storage under cover)
- Post offices
- Printing and publishing
- Production of arts and crafts
- Public utility relay stations, transformer substations, distribution lines and poles, pipes, meters, drainfields, pumping stations, storage facilities, and other facilities for the provision and maintenance of public utilities, including water and sewer installation
- Radio, television, consumer electronics, and music stores
- Real estate sales offices and other brokerage sales offices
- Restaurants
- 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
- Shoe repair shops
- Small engine and lawnmower repair
- Travel agencies
- Vehicle rentals
- Veterinary offices, clinic or hospitals
- Video tape rental
- Watch, clock and jewelry repair
Conditional / special use37
- Wetlands off-site compensatory mitigation sites
- Agricultural equipment repair
- Antennas and towers in excess of 100 feet in height
- Auction houses
- Auto, recreational vehicle, and marine sales
- Bowling centers
- Cabinet making and furniture manufacturing
- Carnival operations
- Car washes
- Campgrounds and RV parks
- Commercial kennels
- Contractors offices and contractor equipment yards
- Day care centers (child and adult)
- Elementary and secondary schools
- Fire and rescue stations
- Flea markets
- Facilities for grading, packing, marketing, and storage of agricultural and horticultural products
- Gunsmiths
- Hospitals, nursing homes and residential care
- Hotels, motels, tourist homes, and bed and breakfasts
- Job training and vocational rehabilitative services
- Laundries and dry cleaners
- Lodges, civic clubs, fraternal organizations, and service clubs
- Machinery sales and service (with storage and repair limited to fully enclosed buildings)
- Manufacture of electrical and electronic equipment and machines including parts and components
- Manufacturing of apparel and other finished products made from fabrics and similar materials
- Manufacturing of pottery, figures, or ceramic products, using only previously pulverized clay and kilns fired only by electricity or gas
- Membership sports and recreation clubs, country clubs
- Miniature golf courses
- Outdoor centers of amusement
- Outdoor sports facilities
- Public billiard parlors, arcades, pool rooms, dance halls
- Residential uses, including single-family dwellings, not as an accessory to an approved use
- Seafood and shellfish receiving, packing, and shipping plants
- Self storage centers
- Vocational schools
- Waterfront business such as wholesale and retail marine activities such as boat docks, piers, small boat docks, yacht club and service facilities for the uses; docks and areas for the receipt, storage and transshipment of waterborne commerce; seafood and shellfish
Extracted standards
6 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. relative to main structure
All accessory buildings and structures shall be less than the main structure in height.
- Maximum accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. near 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. for dwellings45 ft
The height limit for dwellings may be increased up to 45 feet, provided there are two side yards for each permitted use, each of which is ten feet or more, plus one foot or more of side yard for each additional foot of building height over 35 feet.
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. for public buildings60 ft
A public or semipublic building such as a school, church, library or general hospital may be erected to a height of 60 feet from grade, provided that required front, side and rear yards shall be increased one foot for each foot in height over 35 feet.
Other
- Front setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. on 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.
Parking
- 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.10 ft
Off-street parking shall be set back ten feet or more from any street right-of-way.
From the ordinance
The limited business district B-2 is intended to provide opportunities for a limited range of office, retail, and service establishments of small to moderate size.