Chesapeake, Virginia · District

B-5

Urban Business District
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Dimensional standards

B-5 lot requirementsSTREETbuildable areaFront 5 ftRear 10 ftSide 10 ftMAX HEIGHT35 ft
Plan view of the district’s stated lot requirements. Solid line: the property line. Dashed: the setback lines the ordinance imposes; a building must stay inside the tinted envelope. Drawn from the figures extracted below — illustrative, not a survey.

Uses

Accessory2

  • All areas used for permanent outside sales, defined herein as sales continuing longer than a fifteen (15) day period, sh
  • All areas used for temporary outside sales, defined herein as a special sales event continuing for no more than fifteen

Extracted standards

6 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.

Parking

  • Parking exemption if city-owned lot within 500 ft500 ft

    For all uses other than those listed in subsection 7-502.A.4.c.i, no off-street parking shall be required if a city-owned parking lot is located within five hundred (500) feet of the lot on which an existing use is located, measured along the path of pedestrian access.

  • Parking must be located to rear of building

    For all new buildings constructed for a lot within the B-5 district, parking shall be located to the rear of the building, with a single entrance for ingress and egress, unless the planning commission grants a special exception.

Signage

From the ordinance

Front setback 5 ft. Max height 35 ft. Parking: 1 space per 900 sq ft customer service + 0.5 per 1000 sq ft production/storage for other uses.
§ 7-502

Parking requirements

{
  "other_uses": "1 space per 900 sq ft customer service + 0.5 per 1000 sq ft production/storage"
}

Use details

{
  "dropped_conditions": {
    "accessory_uses": [
      "All wholesale sales activities and products for sale must be reasonably related to and of a nature customarily incidenta",
      "No outside display of merchandise for sale shall be permitted in the B-1 district unless located within covered sidewalk",
      "Outside sale of merchandise may be permitted in the B-1 district only in the following circumstances:",
      "No outdoor flea markets shall be permitted in the B-1 district."
    ]
  }
}