Hanover County Unincorporated, Virginia · District

B-2

Community Business District
CommercialCommunity BusinessAll Hanover County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

Uses

Permitted by right54

Conditional / special use29

  • Agricultural and forestal support center
  • Amusement facilities, including arcades, go-cart tracks, rides, and water parks
  • Animal pound
  • Batting cages
  • Billiard parlors or pool hall
  • Cemetery, including a crematorium, in accordance with the standards of section 26-295
  • Churches and other places of worship, or the expansion by more than fifty (50) percent of original floor area of a church or place of worship
  • Convenience store with fuel sales, subject to the standards set forth in subsection 26-108
  • Craft brewery
  • Farmers' market
  • Heliport or helistop
  • Hotel or motel, including one (1) dwelling for those employed on the premises
  • Institutions, educational or philanthropic, including museums, art galleries and libraries
  • Livestock auction market
  • Meeting hall
  • Miniature golf courses or driving ranges
  • Paintball, laser tag, and other similar games
  • Parking garage, lot or deck, nonaccessory
  • Private clubs
  • Public or governmental buildings and uses, including schools, fire stations (volunteer or otherwise), parks, parkways, and playgrounds; and public boat landings
  • Public utilities or public service uses, buildings, generating or treatment plants, pumping or regulator stations, substations and transmission lines not otherwise allowed as a permitted use
  • Radio or television broadcasting station
  • Recreation facility, commercially operated, such as fishing or boating lake, camp ground, picnic grounds, or dude ranch, and accessory facilities, including sale of food, beverages, bait, supplies and equipment
  • Restaurant, fast food, with drive-through, subject to the standards set forth in subsection 26-108
  • Sports arena or stadium, commercial athletic field or baseball park
  • Swimming or tennis club, commercially operated, in accordance with the standards of section 26-299
  • Taxidermy shop
  • Telecommunications towers and related facilities that exceed one hundred forty (140) feet in height and temporary telecommunications towers and related facilities of any height, in accordance with the standards of sections 26-282 through 26-292
  • Theater, but not a drive-in theater

Accessory5

  • Parking lot, garage, or deck, accessory to permitted uses
  • Wetland banks, facilities used for stormwater management, and conservation projects
  • Tier 1 battery energy storage systems
  • Solar energy facility, accessory, ground-mounted, in accordance with the standards of section 26-292.6
  • Solar energy facility, accessory, roof-mounted, in accordance with the standards of section 26-292.6

Extracted standards

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

Other

From the ordinance

Purpose: retail shopping and personal service uses. Height: dwellings, business buildings, and all other structures not specifically exempted shall not exceed three (3) stories or forty-five (45) feet, whichever is greater.
Sections 26-106 through 26-115

Use details

{
  "dropped_conditions": {
    "accessory_uses": [
      "The location of office and construction trailers, which shall be removed within thirty (30) days of completion of construction",
      "Promotional events that meet the following criteria: a. A permit must be issued by the Director before the promotional event occurs. All requests for promotional event permits shall be submitted at least five (5) business days before the promotional event. The application for a promotional event permit shall describe the activities planned and shall contain a sketch plan showing the location of existing structures, parking areas, vehicle entrances and exits, and pedestrian walkways, and the proposed location of the promotional event activities. b. A promotional event permit may be issued for a period not to exceed three (3) consecutive days. c. Promotional events involving the outdoor display of goods and merchandise shall be conducted within an area immediately adjacent to the place where such items are customarily sold. d. No required off-street parking space, area used for vehicular ingress or egress, access drive or loading area shall be utilized for such display or activity. e. A promotional event permit shall not authorize yard sales, flea markets, or other display or sale of used merchandise other than that normally sold by the business holding the promotional event. f. Promotional events may only occur during the normal business hours of operation on the property. g. If a private sidewalk or pedestrian way in front of the building is used for the display of merchandise or for any activity related to the promotional event, a minimum width of four feet must remain unobstructed for pedestrian use. All other promotional events shall be considered 'promotional activities.'",
      "Telecommunications arrays, located on an existing structure, provided the following requirements are met: a. The existing structure shall be in compliance with all currently applicable regulations. b. The height of the existing structure shall not be increased by more than ten (10) percent or ten (10) feet, whichever is less; provided, for properties located within the Hanover County Airspace Map area, no such increase may be permitted if the increase in height creates a hazard for the Hanover County Airport for existing, future or planned airspaces. In determining whether a proposed structure or addition to an existing structure creates such a hazard, the Director may consult with the Federal Aviation Administration and the Virginia Department of Aviation. c. The arrays shall not cause any interference with, or adverse impact on, the county's communications system. d. Any equipment cabinets or structures placed on the ground to serve the array(s) shall be screened in accordance with section 26-262, unless visually obstructed by existing vegetation or other structures on site. e. The arrays shall not be permitted if lighting, beacons, or other safety devices are required by the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Aviation Administration, or any other governing agency."
    ],
    "permitted_uses": [
      "Facilities and structures necessary for rendering utility service, including poles, wires, transformers, utility cabinets and pedestals, and the like for normal electrical power distribution or communication service, pipelines or conduits for electrical, gas, sewer, or water service, and pipelines, conduits and transmission lines located within the suburban service area as depicted on the phased suburban development plan in the county comprehensive plan and used to connect to the public water and sewer system owned by the county, but not including buildings, treatment plants, pumping or regular stations, substations, and power transmission lines which are permitted as conditional uses",
      "Ice distribution stations, automatic, or other drive-in automatic vending machine stations. Groups of vending machines shall be contained in a building",
      "The permanent placement or removal of clean earth fill, including all related excavation and filling activities, provided conditions are met",
      "Telecommunications towers and related facilities, in accordance with the standards of sections 26-282 through 26-292: (a) On properties that are located within the 'FAA Part 77 Area' as depicted on the public works facilities plan in the county comprehensive plan, that do not exceed fifty (50) feet in height; (b) Otherwise, that do not exceed one hundred (100) feet in height"
    ],
    "conditional_uses": [
      "The following excavation and filling activities, including all related excavation and filling activities: (a) The permanent placement or filling of fill other than clean earth fill, whether the source or destination of the fill is the same property or another property; (b) The temporary storage or stockpiling of fill other than clean earth fill; and (c) The sale of clean earth fill or other fill to the public",
      "Fueling station, retail; provided: (a) The standards set forth in section 26-108 are satisfied; (b) The support structure for any roof canopy for fueling positions shall meet all setback requirements; (c) The roof canopy shall not extend more than ten feet into the required setback; however, the provisions of this subsection shall not permit a roof canopy from extending into a major thoroughfare buffer; and (d) The roof canopy shall not impair sight distance for vehicles travelling on the public road or for vehicle and pedestrians entering or exiting the property"
    ]
  }
}