James City County Unincorporated, Virginia · District
B-1
General Business District
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right56
- An apartment or living quarters for a guard, caretaker, proprietor or the person employed on the premises, which is clearly secondary to the commercial use of the property
- Adult day care centers
- Antique shops
- Auction houses
- Bakeries or fish markets
- Banks and other financial institutions
- Barber and beauty salons
- Business and professional offices
- Catering and meal preparation
- Child day care centers
- Contractor offices (with storage of materials and equipment limited to a fully enclosed building)
- Drug stores
- Dry cleaners and laundries
- Farmer's market
- Feed, seed and farm supply stores
- Firearms sales and service
- Funeral homes
- Grocery stores
- Health and exercise clubs, fitness centers
- Hotels and motels
- Indoor centers of amusement including billiard halls, arcades, pool rooms, bowling alleys, dance clubs and bingo halls
- Indoor sport facilities (excluding firing and shooting ranges)
- Indoor theaters
- Janitorial service establishments
- Kennels and animal boarding facilities
- Limousine services (with maintenance limited to a fully enclosed building)
- Lodges, civic clubs, fraternal organizations and service clubs
- Machinery sales and service (with storage and repair limited to a fully enclosed building)
- Marine or waterfront businesses to include the receipt, storage and transshipment of waterborne commerce or seafood receiving, packaging or distribution
- Medical clinics or offices
- Museums
- New and/or rebuilt automotive parts sales (with storage limited to a fully enclosed building)
- Office supply stores
- Parking lots, structures or garages
- Pet stores and pet supply sales
- Photography, artist and sculptor stores and studios
- Plumbing and electrical supply and sales (with storage limited to a fully enclosed building)
- Printing, mailing, lithographing, engraving, photocopying, blueprinting and publishing establishments
- Research, development and design facilities or laboratories
- Restaurants, including fast food restaurants, tea rooms, coffee shops, and taverns
- Retail food stores
- Security service offices
- Small-scale alcohol production
- Taxi service
- Tourist homes
- Vehicle repair and service, including tire, transmission, glass, body and fender, and other automotive product sales, new and/or rebuilt (with major repair limited to a fully enclosed building and storage of parts and vehicles screened from adjacent property by landscaping and fencing)
- Vehicle and trailer sales and services (with major repair limited to a fully enclosed building)
- Vehicle rentals
- Veterinary hospitals (with all activities limited to a fully enclosed building with the exception of supervised animal exercise while on a leash)
- Wholesale and warehousing (with storage limited to a fully enclosed building)
- Fire stations
- Governmental offices
- Libraries
- Places of public assembly
- Post offices
- Telephone exchanges and telephone switching stations
Conditional / special use17
- Amphitheaters
- Campgrounds
- Convention centers
- Country clubs and golf courses, public or private
- Firing and shooting ranges, limited to a fully enclosed building
- Flea markets
- Heliports and helistops, as an accessory use
- Hospitals
- Nursing homes
- Outdoor centers of amusement, including miniature golf, bumper boats and waterslide parks
- Outdoor sports facilities, including golf driving ranges, batting cages and skate parks
- Sexually oriented business
- Vape/smoke shop and vape/smoke lounge
- Schools
- Nonemergency medical transport
- Processing, assembly and manufacture of light industrial products or components, with all storage, processing, assembly and manufacture conducted indoors or under cover, with no dust, noise, odor or other objectionable effect.
- Waste disposal facilities
Extracted standards
11 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- HeightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. waiver100 ft
A structure in excess of 60 feet in height but not in excess of 100 feet ... may be erected only upon the granting of a height limitation waiver by the board of supervisors.
- Parapet wall heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.4 ft
Parapet walls may be up to four feet above the height of the building on which the walls rest.
Other
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.1 story
No accessory structure which is within ten feet of any lot line shall be more than one story high.
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.10 ft
All accessory structures shall be located at least ten feet from any side or rear lot line.
- Landscaping compliance
landscaping on the properties within the district shall comply with article II, division 4 of this chapter.
Setbacks may be reduced to 25 feet from any street right-of-way which is 50 feet or greater in width or 50 feet from the centerline of the street where the street right-of-way is less than 50 feet in width with approval of the planning director.
- Sidewalk requirement
Sidewalks shall be required for all projects requiring site plan review in accordance with section 24-35.
- Site plan review
All buildings or complexes of buildings erected, altered or restored within the district shall be subject to site plan review in accordance with article III of this chapter.
- YardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. increase for heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.1 ft per ft over 35 ft
The minimum side and rear yards shall be increased an additional one foot for each one foot of building height in excess of 35 feet.
Parking
- Parking compliance
Off-street parking and off-street loading shall be provided as required in article II, division 2 of this chapter.
Signage
- Sign compliance
outdoor signs on the properties within the district shall comply with the regulations for exterior signs in article II, division 3 of this chapter.
From the ordinance
Structures shall be located 50 feet or more from any street right-of-way which is 50 feet or greater in width. ... Building coverage shall not exceed 30 percent of the total lot area and the floor area ratio shall not exceed 60 percent.
Use details
{
"dropped_conditions": {
"conditional_uses": [
"Railroad facilities including tracks, bridges and stations. Spur lines which are to serve and are accessory to existing or proposed development adjacent to existing railroad rights-of-way and track and safety improvements in existing railroad rights-of-way, are permitted generally and shall not require a special use permit",
"Transmission pipelines, public or private, including pumping stations and accessory storage, for natural gas, propane gas, petroleum products, chemicals, slurry coal and any other gases, liquids or solids. Extensions for private connections to existing pipelines, which are intended to serve an individual residential or commercial customer and which are accessory to existing or proposed development, are permitted generally and shall not require a special use permit",
"Water facilities, public or private, and sewer facilities (public), including, but not limited to, treatment plants, pumping stations, storage facilities and transmission mains, wells and associated equipment such as pumps to be owned and operated by political jurisdictions. However, the following are permitted generally and shall not require a special use permit: (a) Private connections to existing mains that are intended to serve an individual customer and that are accessory to existing or proposed development, with no additional connections to be made to the line; and (b) Distribution lines and local facilities within a development, including pump stations"
]
}
}