Page County Unincorporated, Virginia · District
C-1
Commercial
Dimensional standards
Lot
Uses
Permitted by right17
- retail stores or shops for the conducting of any retail business, including but not limited to convenience store; craft shop; florist; pawnshop; farmers market; greenhouses; hardware store; art and framing; antique shop; and other similar uses (excluding coal, wood and lumber yards)
- service shops, including but not limited to physical fitness center; funeral home; beauty, barber, or nail shops; laundromat and dry cleaner; self-storage unit; community center; auto body shop; car wash/detail; auto repair service facility; metal working and welding; and other similar uses
- banks, savings, and loan associations, including but not limited to credit unions; payday loans; investment services; and other similar uses
- places serving food and/or beverages, including but not limited to restaurant, general; restaurant, drive-thru; cafe; tavern; nightclub; bar; pub; bakery; deli; brewery; winery; event venue; catering facility; mobile food vending operation; and other similar uses
- theaters or motion-picture theaters, except drive-ins and adult movie theaters
- automobile or mobile home sales with or without service facilities
- travel information areas
- motels and hotels (except adult motels); short-term tourist rentals; bed-and-breakfast establishments; and accessory and/or upstairs apartments
- indoor bowling alleys; skating rinks; archery; laser tag; and paintball
- farm implement sales with or without service facilities
- agriculture
- single-family detached dwellings (subject to W-C or A-1 lot requirements)
- all facilities required by public utilities except power generation and water and/or wastewater treatment plants
- shops engaged in the manufacturing and retail sales of cabinets, furniture and upholstery
- Luray Caverns Airport
- child day center
- commercial outdoor recreation areas and facilities: parks (except amusement parks), playgrounds, picnic grounds, swimming clubs, country clubs, golf courses and driving ranges, miniature golf courses; archery; laser tag; paintball; and other similar uses
Conditional / special use11
- gasoline service stations
- commercial parking facilities
- shopping centers
- outdoor recreation to include drive-in theaters and outdoor firearm ranges
- hospitals and residential care facilities to include group homes, halfway houses, adult day-care facilities, and assisted living facilities
- junkyards
- pole-designed tower facilities or pole-designed structures or monopoles
- motorsports facility
- adult business
- riding stable or academies
- water and/or wastewater treatment plants
Accessory5
- off-street parking areas
- signs
- customary accessory uses and buildings
- small system wind energy facility and/or other small alternative energy (ex. Solar panels)
- windmill
Extracted standards
5 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Minimum buffer heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. adjacent to residential districts6 ft
All property lines abutting a residential district shall be appropriately screened, fenced, walled or enclosed with a suitable enclosure of a minimum height of six feet, unless natural vegetation or wooded areas are used as buffer strips. All buffer strips must be at least six feet in height.
- Minimum distance from confined feeding operation300 ft
Any new structure designed to be occupied as a residence, church, school, community center or commercial business establishment or industry or any other structure designed for public occupancy shall not be located closer than 300 feet from any confined feeding operation.
- Site plan required before zoning permit
Before obtaining a zoning permit for the uses listed within this district either as a permitted use, accessory use or by special use permit a site plan shall be submitted with the zoning application (prior to construction).
- Well class requirement
All wells in Commercial Zoned districts shall be a Class III 'B' well
- Well setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from property lines adjacent to agriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them. parcels 3+ acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.50 ft
maintain a fifty-foot setback from all property lines adjacent to parcel(s) three acres or larger that are used for an agricultural operation
From the ordinance
Minimum lot size: 20,000 square feet with a minimum lot width of 100 feet. Buffer area: all property lines abutting a residential district shall be appropriately screened, fenced, walled or enclosed with a suitable enclosure of a minimum height of six feet.
Use details
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"dropped_conditions": {
"permitted_uses": [
"business, professional or government offices, and office buildings, including but not limited to post office; public safety facilities- police, fire, and rescue; real estate office; medical and dental offices; veterinarian clinic; animal husbandry/commercial kennel operation; media-related office; library; contractor office; rehabilitation centers; religious cultural and educational institutions; tax preparation; pharmacy; telecommunication call center; nursing homes; and other similar uses"
]
}
}