Lancaster County Unincorporated, Virginia · District
C-2
Commercial, Limited, District C-2
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right36
- Antique shops, and art galleries
- Appliance sales and service
- Banks, savings and loan, finance, professional offices, and consultant offices
- Barber and beauty shops
- Bookstores, stationery and office supply stores
- Building contractors
- Camera and photography sales and service
- Drugstores
- Exterminating companies' sales and service
- Furniture stores, and carpet stores
- Hardware, paint, floor covering and fabric stores
- Hobby and craft shops
- Insurance agencies
- Interior decorating and home improvement stores
- Jewelry and gift shops, sales and service
- Locksmiths
- Mail order and catalogue stores
- Music stores
- Optical sales and service
- Plumbing, electrical, heating and air conditioning sales and service
- Printing and framing shops
- Real estate sales offices and other brokerage sales offices
- Retail grocery and food stores
- Retail lawn and garden and plant and flower sales
- Sporting goods stores
- Swimming pools sales and service
- Television and radio sales and service, stereo sales and service
- Travel agencies
- Wearing apparel stores and shoe stores
- Major recreational equipment in accordance with Article 19
- Public utilities
- County-sanctioned public facilities
- Horticultural nurseries and greenhouses with garden supplies
- Churches
- Post office
- Accessory structures
Conditional / special use9
- Disposal of dredge spoils
- Coin-operated laundry and dry cleaning
- Restaurants, excluding drive-in type
- Automobile repair, farm vehicle repair, including sale of gasoline, and other farm-related repair shops limited to 2,000 square feet of floor area
- Child care or day care center
- Club
- Off-street parking as required by this ordinance
- Veterinary or dog and cat hospital and/or kennels
- Marine sales and service
Accessory1
Extracted standards
5 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- 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 feet of property line1 story
No accessory structure which is within ten feet of any property lot line shall be more than one story high.
Other
- Maximum floor area4,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Structures to be erected, limited to 4,000 square feet of floor area unless authorized by special exception.
- All operations enclosed under roof
Businesses permitted within this district are required to conduct all aspects of their operations enclosed under roof.
- Minimum side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. when adjacent to residential or agricultureAgricultureRaising 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
The minimum side yard adjoining or adjacent to a residential or agriculture district shall be ten feet.
Signage
- Sign regulations per Article 11
Sign regulations shall conform to Article 11 of this ordinance.
From the ordinance
Structures to be erected, limited to 4,000 square feet of floor area unless authorized by special exception, to be used for one or more of the following uses...