Sussex County Unincorporated, Virginia · District
B-1
Limited Business District
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right19
- Grocery stores
- Bake shops
- Drugstores
- Pick-up laundry and dry cleaning stations
- Coin-operated laundries
- Barbershops and beauty shops
- Gift shops
- Clothing shops
- Appliance stores
- Off-street parking
- Public utilities
- Business signs
- Church bulletin boards and identification signs
- Directional signs
- Home occupation signs
- Professional offices
- Financial institutions
- Governmental offices
- Restaurant
Extracted standards
3 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- Public building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.60 ft
A public or semipublic building ... may be erected to a height of 60 feet from grade
Other
- Front setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from street right-of-way35 ft
Structures in B-1 districts shall be located 35 feet or more from any street right-of-way which is 50 feet or greater in width
- Side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. when adjacent to residential/agriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them.10 ft
minimum side yard, adjoining or adjacent to a residential or agricultural district, shall be at least ten feet
From the ordinance
In B-1 districts, structures to be erected or land to be used shall be for one or more of the following uses: ... Structures shall be located 35 feet or more from any street right-of-way ... minimum side yard ... ten feet ... height limit for dwellings may be increased up to 45 feet and up to three stories.