Bedford, Virginia · District

B-1

Limited Business District B-1
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Dimensional standards

B-1 lot requirementsSTREETSTREETbuildable areaFront 4 ftRear 0 ftSide 0 ftStreet side 0 ftMAX LOT COVERAGE100%MAX DENSITY16 du/ac
Plan view of the district’s stated lot requirements. Solid line: the property line. Dashed: the setback lines the ordinance imposes; a building must stay inside the tinted envelope. Drawn from the figures extracted below — illustrative, not a survey.

Uses

Extracted standards

13 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.

Lighting

  • no light within 500 feet of a residential district and visible from that district shall exceed 150 footlamberts in brightness.

  • Maximum illumination at other lot line1 fc

    nor 1.0 footcandles at any other lot line

  • Maximum illumination at residential lot line0.1 fc

    Light emitted from any use shall not exceed an illumination level of 0.1 footcandles at any lot line adjoining a residential district

Other

  • Common walls exemption

    Minimum yard setbacks for two-family dwellings, condominiums, townhouses, duplexes, and apartments shall not apply to common walls.

  • Enclosed building requirement

    All business servicing, storage or processing shall be conducted within a completely enclosed building except where the nature of the activity makes it impossible; except for displays on the premises; and except as provided for below.

  • Hotel ground floor restriction

    no hotel guest rooms shall occupy the ground or street level along the building's primary street frontage.

  • Maximum manufacturing floor area percentage40 pct

    For retail and service uses, manufacturing, processing or treatment of materials, goods, or products shall occupy less than 40 percent of the floor area.

  • Maximum outdoor display percentage10 pct

    Outdoor displays shall contain no more than ten percent of the merchandise offered for sale on the premises.

  • Repair enclosure requirement

    any mechanical, tire or body repair must be conducted entirely within a structure which shall not have any opening, other than a stationary window within 100 feet of a residential district

  • Residential ancillary use restrictions

    such uses do not conflict with the commercial vitality of the B-1 zone; such residential units meet the minimum standards of the town; a distinct entrance and enclosed stairway to the upper level dwelling units is provided that is separate from all commercial uses occurring in the same building including, but not limited to sales, storage, and display; adequate parking is provided, either on the same lot, or in a location approved by the zoning administrator.

  • When a parcel zoned B-1 abuts a residential district, the side and rear yard setback shall be equal to that of the adjacent residential district.

  • Uncovered parking lots and spaces, sidewalks, and walkways, etc., shall have no minimum yard setback.

  • Used car operating condition

    all vehicles on a used car lot must be in operating conditions at all times.

From the ordinance

The B-1 Zoning District shall have no minimum lot area or minimum lot width. The maximum percentage of any lot that may be covered by the footprint of a building shall be 100 percent. The maximum height of any building shall not be limited. Multifamily, townhouse, and multifamily condominium developments of a density not exceeding 16 units per acre of a gross site area
Sec. 605