B-1
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right33
- Accessory uses
- Alternative support structures
- Aquaculture
- Bait and tackle shops, boat and motor sales, and other retail sales catering to marine trade
- Boat ramps
- Boats-for-hire
- Boatyards, boat building and boat repairs
- Campgrounds
- Cruise and tourist ship dockage
- Data poles
- Docks, commercial and private
- Fishing piers
- Forestry
- Grain storage and transport facilities
- Home occupations
- Hotels, motels and tourist homes
- Local, state and federal water-based facilities
- Marinas and yacht clubs
- Marine railways
- Marine salvage
- Mobile food vending vehicle
- Recycling location (dropoff) with a total capacity of 10 cubic yards or less
- Restaurants
- Retail marine fuel sales
- Seafood sales
- Shellfish and finfish processing, packing and storage facilities
- Shops offering such services as marine welding, sheet metal fabrication, small engine repair, and sail mending
- Signs
- Single-family residences for occupancy by business owner or tenant
- Utility use, minor
- Water-powered facilities such as grist mills
- Watercraft clubs and schools
- Wood landings
Conditional / special use5
- Home enterprise
- Museums
- Recycling location (dropoff) with a total capacity in excess of 10 cubic yards
- Telecommunication towers
- Utility use, major
Extracted standards
6 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Environmental
- Conditional useConditional useAllowed only after a discretionary approval — usually a public hearing and a board vote. environmental permits
In order to ensure that special uses will not harm the natural environment, no zoning permit shall be issued therefor unless and until all other required permits are first obtained from environmental protection agencies, including the Mathews County Wetlands Zoning Board, the Virginia Marine Resources Commission, the State Water Control Board, the Virginia Department of Health, the United States Army Corps of Engineers, and any other applicable agency.
- Environmental permits required
no zoning permit shall be issued therefor unless and until all other required permits are first obtained from environmental protection agencies, including the Mathews County Wetlands Zoning Board, the Virginia Marine Resources Commission, the State Water Control Board, the Virginia Department of Health, the United States Army Corps of Engineers, and any other applicable agency.
Floodplain
- Sewage treatment systems must be outside 100-year floodplainFloodplainLand expected to flood at a stated frequency, where building carries extra conditions.
Sewage treatment systems (private) where the subject lot or parcel shall be located outside the area identified by the Floodplain Management Ordinance of Mathews County as being subject to inundation by waters of the one-hundred-year flood event.
Height
Public utility buildings, church spires, belfries, cupolas, monuments, water towers, chimneys, flues, flagpoles, television antenna, radio aerials, farm buildings and buildings excluding dwellings, smoke stacks, observation towers are exempt. Parapet walls may be up to four feet above the height of the building on which the walls rest.
Other
- Corner lot side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates.40 ft
The minimum side yard on the side facing the side street shall be 40 feet or more for main buildings, accessory buildings and piers.
- Landscaping may be required
The Administrator may require landscaping within any established or required setback area and that sufficient area be provided to adequately screen permitted uses from adjacent business and residential districts and for off-street parking.
From the ordinance
Buildings and piers on all public or private rights-of-way shall be set back 50 feet or more from the edge of the right-of-way or 75 feet from the center line, whichever is greater.
Use details
{
"dropped_conditions": {
"permitted_uses": [
"Agriculture, including growing of fruit, forest, field, vegetable crops and, for personal and home occupation uses only, fowl and animal handling and containment, excluding hogs; grain dryers, feeder lots, dairy barns, agricultural lagoons, poultry and hog houses and other structures or areas involving concentrated handling or containment of animals and fowl are excluded"
],
"conditional_uses": [
"Sewage treatment systems (private) where the subject lot or parcel shall be located outside the area identified by the Floodplain Management Ordinance"
]
}
}