Surry County Unincorporated, Virginia · District
C-2
General Commercial District
CommercialAll Surry County Unincorporated districts0
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right63
- Accessory apartment
- Club
- Crisis center
- Cultural service
- Day care center
- Educational facility
- Halfway house
- Nursing home
- Park and ride facility
- Post office
- Public facilities
- Public park and recreational area
- Religious assembly
- Rehabilitation service
- Utility service/minor
- Agricultural service
- Antique shop
- Auction establishment
- Bank
- Business support service
- Business or trade school
- Commercial indoor recreation
- Construction office, temporary
- Crematorium
- Dance hall
- Event center
- Equipment sales and rental
- Farmer's market
- Funeral home
- Garden center
- Gasoline station
- General service and repair
- Golf course
- Hospital
- Hospital, special care
- Hotel/motel/motor lodge/inn
- Kennel, commercial
- Laundry
- Lumber yard
- Manufactured home sales
- Marina
- Medical office
- Mini warehouse
- Motor vehicle sales
- Motor vehicle/outdoor storage
- Motor vehicle parts/supply, retail
- Motor vehicle repair service/major
- Motor vehicle repair service/minor
- Office, general
- Pawn shop
- Personal improvement service
- Personal service
- Real estate office, temporary
- Recreational vehicle sales and service
- Restaurant, general
- Retail sales
- Studio, fine arts
- Taxidermy
- Veterinary hospital/clinic
- Laboratory
- Outdoor gathering
- Parking facility
- Windmill
Extracted standards
9 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. building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. rule
Buildings accessory: No more than the height of the principle building.
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. of principal buildings45 ft
All principle buildings: Two and one-half stories but not to exceed 45 feet.
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. of principal buildings in storiesStoreysHabitable floor levels. Whether a basement or attic counts is defined by the local code.2.5 storiesStoreysHabitable floor levels. Whether a basement or attic counts is defined by the local code.
All principle buildings: Two and one-half stories but not to exceed 45 feet.
Other
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure location rule
Accessory structures shall only be allowed in the side or rear yard (behind the front face of the principle building).
- Buffer yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. required adjacent to residential/agriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them. districts
a buffer yard is required on lots adjacent to residential and agricultural zoning districts (see section 5-400)
- Minimum front yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. on primary highway75 ft
On primary highway: 75 feet.
- Minimum front yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. on secondary highway or other street50 ft
On secondary highway or other street: 50 feet.
- Minimum rear yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.25 ft
All structures: 25 feet, but a buffer yard is required on lots adjacent to residential and agricultural zoning districts (See section 5-400).
- Minimum side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
None, but a buffer yard is required on lots adjacent to residential and agricultural zoning districts (see section 5-400).
From the ordinance
Minimum lot area: 40,000 square feet. Minimum lot width: 200 feet. Minimum lot frontage: 200 feet. All principle buildings: Two and one-half stories but not to exceed 45 feet.