Prince William County Unincorporated, Virginia · District
B-3
Convenience Retail District
Dimensional standards
Lot
- Minimum lot depth
- 0 ft
Height & bulk
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right26
- Adult day center
- Assisted living facility
- Barber shop, beautician studio, tanning and toning salon (one set of toning equipment only)
- Child-care facility
- Craft brewery (not to exceed production of 10,000 barrels per year. May or may not be associated with a restaurant)
- Dry cleaning pick-up facility
- Event center/meeting hall
- Financial institution
- Garden center
- Gunsmith
- Locksmith
- Medical or dental office and clinic
- Mortuary, funeral home (except in shopping centers or shopping malls)
- Office
- Pet store, in accordance with the provisions of section 32-400.24
- Place of religious worship or assembly
- Quick service food store
- Recycling collection points, subject to the standards in section 32-250.84
- Religious institution
- Restaurant
- Restaurant, carry-out
- Retail store
- Shoe repair
- Tailor, seamstress shop
- Veterinary hospital
- Wedding chapel (except in shopping centers or shopping malls)
Conditional / special use8
- Boarding/kenneling of pets accessory to a pet store
- Continuing care retirement community
- Crematory, secondary to a funeral home
- Drive-in facility, in accordance with the standards for drive-in facilities specified in county code section 32-400.07
- Drive-through facility, in accordance with the standards for drive-through facilities specified in county code section 32-400.07
- Marina
- Motor vehicle fuel station, retail
- Pet care facility, in accordance with the provisions of section 32-400.24
Accessory2
- Medical or dental laboratory, secondary to a medical or dental clinic
- Live entertainment in accordance with the provisions of section 32-400.15
Extracted standards
7 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. when abutting agriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them. or residential districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.25 ft
a minimum setback of 25 feet from the common property line for all structures and uses shall be required when the side or rear of a lot within a B-3 District abuts an agricultural or residential district.
- Hours of operation when within 200 feet of residential
If located within 200 feet of residentially zoned property, hours of operation shall be limited from 6:00 a.m. to 12:00 midnight, unless otherwise specifically approved by the Board of County Supervisors as part of a proffered rezoning or Special Use Permit application.
- Maximum aggregate non-residential floor area15,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
The non-residential uses shall not exceed 15,000 gross square feet, with no single use larger than 8,000 gross square feet.
- Maximum districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2. size5 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
the maximum district size shall be five acres
- Minimum districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2. size1 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
The minimum district size shall be one acre
- Minimum contiguous public roadway frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street.200 ft
The district shall have at least 200 feet along any contiguous public roadways
- Required road classification
served by at least one road designated in the Comprehensive Plan as a major collector or larger
From the ordinance
The minimum district size shall be one acre and the maximum district size shall be five acres. The district shall have at least 200 feet along any contiguous public roadways, and be served by at least one road designated in the Comprehensive Plan as a major collector or larger. There shall be no minimum lot width or depth. The maximum lot coverage shall be 80 percent with a required minimum open space area of 20 percent. The maximum height for all structures shall be 35 feet. The maximum floor area ratio (FAR) shall be 0.10. The non-residential uses shall not exceed 15,000 gross square feet, with no single use larger than 8,000 gross square feet. The front setback for the principal building shall be 55 feet. For a corner lot, a setback of 20 feet shall be required along the side street.