B-1
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right65
- Amusements, public
- Cultural services
- Public recreation assembly
- Public uses
- Religious assembly
- Sheltered care facilities
- Assisted living facilities
- Auction houses
- Automobile repair service establishments
- Automobile sales
- Bakeries
- Bed and breakfasts
- Boarding houses
- Brewpub
- Butcher shops
- Car washes
- Cemeteries, commercial
- Child day centers
- Communications service
- Corporate offices
- Daycare centers
- Emergency centers
- Event facilities
- Financial institutions
- Flea markets
- Funeral homes
- Garden center
- Gas stations
- Greenhouses, commercial
- Grocery stores
- Guidance services
- Hospitals
- Hotels
- Indoor entertainment
- Indoor recreation facilities
- Laundries
- Machinery sales and service
- Marinas, commercial
- Microbreweries
- Medical clinics
- Nursing homes
- Offices
- Parking facilities
- Personal improvement services
- Personal service establishments
- Pharmacies
- Professional schools
- Recreational vehicle sales
- Restaurants, fast food
- Restaurants, general
- Restaurants, small
- Retail stores, general
- Retail stores, large-scale
- Retail stores, neighborhood convenience
- Retail stores, specialty
- Self-storage facilities
- Shooting ranges, indoor
- Studios, fine arts
- Taxidermists
- Vending carts
- Veterinary offices
- Accessory uses
- Mobile food unit
- Small scale solar generation facility
- Utilities, minor
Conditional / special use27
- Educational facilities
- Public assembly
- Amusements, commercial
- Dance halls
- Entertainment establishments, adult
- Halfway houses
- Kennels, commercial
- Landscaping materials supply
- Laundromats
- Lodges
- Manufactured home sales
- Outdoor entertainment
- Outdoor recreation facilities
- Retail stores, adult
- Transportation terminals
- Vehicle impound facilities
- Contractor's storage yards
- Lumberyards
- Machine shops
- Railroad facilities
- Research laboratories
- Outdoor gatherings
- Minor scale solar generation facility
- Telecommunication facilities
- Utilities, major
- Utility scale solar generation facility
- Dormitories
Accessory64
- Amusements, public
- Cultural services
- Public recreation assembly
- Public uses
- Religious assembly
- Sheltered care facilities
- Assisted living facilities
- Auction houses
- Automobile repair service establishments
- Automobile sales
- Bakeries
- Bed and breakfasts
- Boarding houses
- Brewpub
- Butcher shops
- Car washes
- Cemeteries, commercial
- Child day centers
- Communications service
- Corporate offices
- Daycare centers
- Emergency centers
- Event facilities
- Financial institutions
- Flea markets
- Funeral homes
- Garden center
- Gas stations
- Greenhouses, commercial
- Grocery stores
- Guidance services
- Hospitals
- Hotels
- Indoor entertainment
- Indoor recreation facilities
- Laundries
- Machinery sales and service
- Marinas, commercial
- Microbreweries
- Medical clinics
- Nursing homes
- Offices
- Parking facilities
- Personal improvement services
- Personal service establishments
- Pharmacies
- Professional schools
- Recreational vehicle sales
- Restaurants, fast food
- Restaurants, general
- Restaurants, small
- Retail stores, general
- Retail stores, large-scale
- Retail stores, neighborhood convenience
- Retail stores, specialty
- Self-storage facilities
- Shooting ranges, indoor
- Studios, fine arts
- Taxidermists
- Vending carts
- Veterinary offices
- Mobile food unit
- Small scale solar generation facility
- Utilities, minor
Extracted standards
10 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. for public or semi-public buildings60 ft
A public or semi-public building such as a school, place of worship, library, hotel and general hospital may be erected to a height of sixty feet (60') from grade provided that required front, side and rear yard each shall be increased one foot (1') for each foot in height over forty-five feet (45').
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. for spires, belfries, cupolas, monuments, water towers, chimneys, flues, flagpoles, television antennae and radio aerials60 ft
Spires, belfries, cupolas, monuments, water towers, chimneys, flues, flagpoles, television antennae and radio aerials sixty feet (60') limit.
- Parapet wall heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. above building4 ft
Parapet walls may be up to four feet (4') above the height of the building on which the walls rest.
Other
- Parking lot and accessory useAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from residential or agriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them. districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.25 ft
All parking lots and accessory uses shall be located not less than twenty-five feet (25') from any residential or agricultural district.
- Parking lot setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from public right-of-way25 ft
All parking lots shall be located not less than twenty-five feet (25') from any public right-of-way.
- Sidewalks required on both sides of roadways
Sidewalks that comply with the most recent VDOT specifications shall be required on both sides of all roadways, public and private.
- Site development plan required
All buildings, structures and uses in the B-1 District shall be subject to the provisions of Article 23: Site Development Plans of this Code.
- Minimum yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. when adjoining residential or agriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them. districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.50 ft
The minimum yard requirements for permitted uses adjoining or adjacent to a residential or agricultural district shall be fifty feet (50').
Parking
- Off-street parkingMinimum parkingThe number of off-street spaces a development must provide before it may open. per Article 26
Off-street parking shall conform with Article 26: Off-Street Parking and Loading Spaces of this chapter.
Signage
- Sign regulations per Article 15
Sign regulations shall conform to Article 15 of this chapter.
From the ordinance
In Business, General, District B-1, structures to be erected or land to be used shall be for one (1) or more of the following uses, together with ordinary and necessary accessory uses, and no others.