Hanover County Unincorporated, Virginia · District
B-3
B-3 District
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right6
- Temporary health care structure sales, display and storage
- Manufactured home sales, display and storage
- Automobile dealers (new vehicles), including sales, service, and repairs (including body and fender repairs)
- Automobile and motorcycle repair, general, not including body and fender repair
- Automobile and motorcycle transmission repair service
- Truck dealers (new vehicles), including sales, service, and repairs, including body and fender repairs, limited to pickup or panel trucks with a gross vehicle weight rating of 19,500 pounds or less
Conditional / special use17
- Any conditional use permitted in the B-1, Neighborhood District and not included in the list of permitted uses for the B-3 district
- Adult uses
- Automobile and motorcycle body and fender repair
- Automobile dealers (used vehicles)
- Billiard parlor and pool halls
- Bowling alleys
- Construction equipment sales, rental, or leasing, limited to equipment with an operating weight of 13,000 pounds or less
- Dance halls
- Fitness center, not otherwise allowed as a permitted use
- Recreational vehicle sales (used vehicles), including display, repair, and storage
- Roller skating and ice skating rinks
- Self-storage warehouse facility, including one (1) dwelling for those employed on the premises
- Theaters, including drive-in theaters
- Truck dealers (used vehicles), limited to pickup or panel trucks with a gross vehicle weight rating of 19,500 pounds or less
- Truck stop
- Warehousing, storage, wholesaling, and distribution with more than 5,000 square feet but not more than fifteen thousand (15,000) square feet of accessory storage, per individual business establishment, and a gross floor area of no greater than thirty thousand (30,000) square feet
- Car wash or vehicle washing facility, automatic or otherwise
Accessory9
- Material storage yards, in connection with a permitted use where storage is incidental to the approved occupancy of the building
- Parking lot, garage, or deck, accessory to permitted uses
- Promotional events that meet specific criteria
- Storage of office supplies and goods used in conjunction with a permitted business use
- Wetland banks, facilities used for stormwater management, and conservation projects
- Telecommunications arrays, located on an existing structure
- Tier 1 battery energy storage systems
- Solar energy facility, accessory, ground-mounted
- Solar energy facility, accessory, roof-mounted
Extracted standards
7 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Definition of a damaged vehicle
a motor vehicle shall be considered a 'damaged vehicle' if it: (i) requires body or fender repair... (ii) has been partially or totally disassembled... (iii) does not have displayed thereon either valid license plates or a valid inspection decal for a period of 30 days.
- Minimum parcel area for temporary health care structure and manufactured homeManufactured homeA dwelling built in a factory to a federal standard and transported to the site. sales2 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
the minimum parcel area shall be two (2) acres
- Minimum screen heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. for storage areas8 ft
the storage area shall be screened in accordance with section 26-263, except with a minimum height of eight (8) feet
- Entire area shall be screened from contiguous residentially zoned property
the entire area shall be similarly screened from contiguous residentially zoned property
- All units shall be in usable condition
all units shall be in usable condition
- No unit shall be placed in a required front yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates.
no unit shall be placed in a required front yard
- Storage of equipment or materials or storage or major repair of damaged vehicles shall be inside a completely enclosed building or screened
Any storage of equipment or materials or storage or major repair of damaged vehicles shall be inside a completely enclosed building or otherwise screened in accordance with the requirements of section 26-263.
From the ordinance
There are no minimum lot size requirements in this district except as may be required by the health official to meet sanitary standards. Dwellings, business buildings, and all other structures... shall not exceed three (3) stories or forty-five (45) feet, whichever is greater.
Use details
{
"dropped_conditions": {
"accessory_uses": [
"The location of office or construction trailers, which shall be removed within thirty (30) days of completion of construction"
]
}
}