Lancaster County Unincorporated, Virginia · District
C-1
COMMERCIAL, DISTRICT C-1
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right34
- Retail food stores
- Bakeries
- General stores
- Dry cleaners
- Laundries
- Wearing apparel stores
- Drug and variety stores
- Barber and beauty shops
- Home appliance sales and service
- Theaters, assembly halls
- Hotels, motels, tourist homes
- Office buildings, business offices, and banks
- Churches
- Libraries
- Hospitals, general
- Funeral homes
- Printing offices
- Restaurants
- Service stations (with major repair under cover)
- Clubs
- Auto sales and service
- Lumber and building supply, farm and home supplies
- Contractors' equipment storage yards
- Plumbing and electrical supply
- Retail, wholesale and processing activities not objectionable because of dust, noise or odors
- Machinery sales and service, welding and machine shops
- County-sanctioned public facility
- Public utilities
- Post office
- Major recreational equipment in accordance with Article 19
- Miniwarehouses
- Horticultural nurseries and greenhouses with garden supplies
- Child care or day care centers
- Veterinary hospital and/or kennel or pet store
Conditional / special use2
- Public billiard parlors and pool rooms, bowling alleys, dancehalls, and similar forms of public amusement
- Disposal of dredge spoils
Accessory1
Extracted standards
3 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- Maximum 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. (within 10 ft of lot line)1 storiesStoreysHabitable floor levels. Whether a basement or attic counts is defined by the local code.
No accessory structure which is within ten feet of any property lot line shall be more than one story high.
Other
- Minimum distance from street centerline40 ft
Buildings shall be located 40 feet or more from the centerline of any street or road right-of-way.
- Minimum side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. when adjacent to residential/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-2.10 ft
For permitted uses, the minimum side yard adjoining or adjacent to a residential or agricultural district shall be ten feet.
From the ordinance
Buildings shall be located 40 feet or more from the centerline of any street or road right-of-way, but in no event less than 15 feet from the edge of the right-of-way.