Amherst County Unincorporated, Virginia · District
B-2
General Commercial District
No dimensional standards extracted
This district was identified in the ordinance, but no lot, setback or height figures were found in the sections read so far.
Uses
Permitted by right80
- accessory building
- bank
- clinic
- club
- drug store
- emergency service
- food store
- general convenience store
- professional office building
- public utility
- retail nursery
- retail service store
- sign
- U.S. post office
- antique and gift shop
- automobile service station
- cemetery
- church
- day care center
- garage, public
- hardware store
- motel
- restaurant
- retail store
- school
- school support facility
- shopping center
- shopping complex
- single-family dwelling and retail store
- telephone repeater substation
- car wash
- bakery
- cabinet making shop
- catering establishment
- cold storage plant
- dry cleaning plant
- funeral home
- furniture store
- printing plant
- radio and TV office
- retail automotive parts store
- satellite dish sales
- theater, indoor
- wholesale and jobbing establishment
- bowling alley
- call center
- college
- community center
- contractor facility
- dormitory
- excavation contractor facility
- feed and seed store
- golf driving range
- governmental facility
- kennel
- light manufacturing
- pest exterminating business
- public utility
- radio and TV transmission tower
- radio and TV transmitter
- sign manufacturing
- truck stop
- veterinary hospital
- library
- public street
- personal wireless service facility
- short-term tourist rental
- brewery
- temporary use
- museum
- warehousing and distribution facility
- automobile sales
- travel trailer sales
- tattoo establishment
- marine sales and service
- solar generation facility (small)
- food truck
- retail sale of self-storage
- storm-water facility lot
- any other use
Conditional / special use23
- bulk storage of sand/gravel
- building and excavating contractor facilities with outside storage
- building materials dealer
- machinery sales and services
- arena
- automotive repair garage
- tire recapping
- adult entertainment establishment
- auction house
- display and sale of modular homes
- small wind energy system
- substance abuse treatment facility
- above ground LPG container
- off-site directional sign
- pawnbroker
- oil and gas exploration
- personal wireless service facility
- substance abuse treatment clinic
- truck business
- dual use structure
- on-site directional sign >18"x42"
- self-service mini-storage
- any other use
Accessory1
Extracted standards
2 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Opening distance from residential/public lands districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.100 ft
shall not have any opening other than a stationary window within one hundred (100) feet of a residential, or public lands district
- Screening heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. for light manufacturing7 ft
shall be permanently screened from adjoining residential lots and districts by a wall, fence, evergreen hedge and/or other suitable enclosure of a minimum height of seven (7) feet
From the ordinance
Within the General Commercial District B-2, the following uses are permitted: ... Banks ... Restaurants ...