Sussex County Unincorporated, Virginia · District
B-2
General Business District
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right43
- Retail stores and shops
- Bakeries
- Restaurants
- Laundries
- Wearing apparel stores
- Drugstores
- Barbershops and beauty shops
- Auto and home appliance services
- Theaters and assembly halls
- Hotels and motels
- Office buildings
- Churches
- Libraries
- Hospital, general
- Funeral homes
- Community/recreation centers
- Clubs and lodges
- Auto sales and service
- Lumber and building supply
- Plumbing and electrical supply
- Dry cleaners
- Machinery sales and service
- Public utilities
- Off-street parking
- Waterfront business activities
- Business signs
- General advertising signs
- Locations signs
- Medical clinics
- Governmental offices
- Classic and collectible car sales and restoration facility
- Nursery and landscaping
- Financial institutions
- Computer software development firms
- Day care center
- Automobile self-service station
- Automobile service station
- Garage, public
- Tractor-trailer service station, truck stop, trucking companies
- Kennel
- Family day care, large
- Carwash
- Modular/manufactured home sales center
Conditional / special use10
- Wholesale and processing not objectionable
- Public billiard parlors and poolrooms, bowling alleys, dance halls
- Cabinet, furniture and upholstery shops
- Veterinary hospital
- Communication tower with station
- Wholesale businesses, storage warehouses and mini-storage units
- Show horse facility and riding academy
- Laydown yard
- Caretaker's living quarters
- Planned unit developments
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-way10 ft
Buildings in B-2 districts shall be located ten 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-2 districts, structures to be erected or land to be used shall be for one or more of the following uses: ... Buildings shall be located ten feet or more from any street right-of-way ... minimum side yard ... ten feet ... Buildings may be erected up to 35 feet in height ... dwellings may be increased up to 45 feet and up to three stories.