Washington County Unincorporated, Virginia · District
B-2
B-2 District
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right88
- A single dwelling unit appurtenant to and contained within a business
- Accounting, auditing and bookkeeping services
- Advertising agencies
- Apparel and accessory stores
- Art dealers and galleries
- Auctioneering services
- Audio and video sales, services and rental stores
- Automobile and motorcycle sales and service
- Automotive repair garages and automotive fuel service stations
- Bail bonding
- Bakeries and baked-goods shops
- Banks and savings and loan associations
- Beauty shops and barbershops
- Blueprinting and photocopying services
- Boat, watercraft and recreational vehicle and trailer sales and services
- Bookstores
- Building and construction contractor's office
- Business office supply stores
- Camera and photographic supply stores
- Churches
- Cigar and tobacco stores
- Civic, social and fraternal organizations
- Cleaning and maintenance services
- Clothing and costume rental stores
- Coin shops
- Computer and data processing services
- Dance studios and schools
- Day care centers
- Drafting service
- Drugstores and pharmacies
- Electrical repair shops
- Employment agencies
- Engineering, architectural and surveying services
- Equipment sales, rental, repair and services
- Farm equipment sales, rental, repair and services
- Florist, including commercial greenhouses
- Funeral homes
- Furniture, home furnishings and household appliance stores
- General merchandise stores
- Gift, novelty and souvenir shops
- Government owned and operated establishments
- Health clubs and spas
- Hobby, craft, toy and game shops
- Hotels, motels, and tourist camps, with less than 200 guest rooms
- Industrial mobile office units
- Insurance agencies
- Interior decorating services
- Jewelry stores
- Laundry, dry cleaning and garment services
- Law offices
- Lawn and garden supply stores
- Legal services
- Libraries
- Liquefied petroleum, bottled gas or other fuel oil sales and service with on-site storage of less than 50,000 gallons
- Management, consulting and public relations services
- Manufactured housing sales and service
- Museums
- News dealers and newsstands
- Nursing and personal care facilities without on-site residency
- Offices of physicians, dentists and other health practitioners
- Optical goods stores
- Pawnbroker, precious metals dealer
- Pet shops
- Photofinishing laboratories
- Photographic studios
- Plumbing and electrical supply
- Professional membership organizations
- Public parking lot
- Publicly owned schools, colleges, junior colleges, universities, technical institutes, and vocational schools
- Real estate agencies
- Restaurants and other eating establishments
- Sewing, needlework and piece goods stores
- Shoe repair shops
- Sign painting and lettering shops
- Signs, identification, and business
- Social services
- Sporting goods stores and bicycle shops
- Tax return preparation service
- Taxi stands
- Upholstery and furniture repair
- Used merchandise and antique stores
- Uses enumerated in subsection (a) of this section to be located in neighborhood or community shopping centers
- Utilities and public services
- Utilities and public services: poles, overhead and underground lines, distribution transformers, meters, street lighting and related appurtenances for electric and telecommunication service (excluding telecommunication towers)
- Telecommunication towers and antennas used exclusively by public or private schools or educational institutions for educational data transmission
- Underground pipes and lines, manholes, pumping and booster stations, meters and related appurtenances for potable water, wastewater collection, and natural gas transmission
- Solid waste disposal convenience station operated by the county after public hearing
- Watch, clock and jewelry repair
Conditional / special use41
- Abortion clinic subject to distance requirements and standards
- Animal assisted therapy
- Auditorium
- Electrical power substations, electrical power transmission towers, telecommunication switching facilities and telecommunication towers and antennas
- Fire department offices and facilities, emergency medical rescue squad offices and facilities, and law enforcement offices and facilities
- Golf courses
- Hotels, motels, tourist courts, and bed-and-breakfast establishments with 200 or more guest rooms
- Indoor movie theaters; drive-in theaters
- Kennel
- Lumber and brick yards and building materials and equipment sales
- Manufactured homes for use by a security guard on a business
- Multiple-family dwelling units, such as apartments, townhouses, and condominiums
- Nursing and personal care facilities with any on-site residency
- Off-site uses related to airport safety
- On-site material and equipment storage
- On-site storage of 50,000 gallons or more liquefied petroleum or other fuel oil
- Pet grooming service
- Privately owned schools, colleges, junior colleges, universities, technical institutes and vocational schools
- Public and private hospitals
- Public skating rinks, bowling alleys, dance halls, pool halls, night clubs, lounges, video game arcade and similar forms of public amusement
- Radio and television stations, studios and offices
- Recreational facilities
- Abortion clinic (subject to distance requirements)
- Fire department offices and facilities, emergency medical rescue squad offices and facilities, law enforcement offices and facilities
- Hotels, motels, tourist courts, and bed-and-breakfast establishments with 200+ guest rooms or on-site meeting rooms seating 500+
- Kennel (may include pet supplies, grooming, training, veterinarian services)
- Lumber and brick yards and building materials and equipment sales, rental, repair and services
- Multiple-family dwelling units (apartments, townhouses, condominiums) - public water and sewer required for 10+ units
- Nursing and personal care facilities with on-site residency - public water and sewer required for 10+ units
- On-site storage of 50,000+ gallons liquefied petroleum or other fuel oil
- Public skating rinks, bowling alleys, dance halls, pool halls, night clubs, lounges, video game arcade and similar public amusement
- Recreational facilities (tennis/basketball courts, baseball/softball fields, parks, swimming pools, gymnasiums)
- Substance abuse treatment facilities (subject to distance restrictions)
- Tattoo parlors and body piercing establishments
- Telecommunications-related industries
- Tobacco warehouses, storage warehouses and bulk petroleum plants
- Tractor-truck and trailer sales, rental, repair and services
- Truck stops and truck terminals
- Veterinary hospital or clinic
- Water and wastewater treatment plants
- Wholesale, distribution and processing operations
Accessory2
- Off-street parking as an accessory use
- Off-street parking as accessory to permitted use (per section 66-1041)
Extracted standards
5 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. structure heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.
No accessory structure which is within ten feet of any party lot line shall be more than one story high. All accessory structures shall be less than the main structure in height.
- Dwelling heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. exception
The height limit for dwellings may be increased up to 45 feet and up to three stories, provided there are two side yards for each permitted use, each of which is ten feet or more, plus one foot or more of side yard for each additional foot of building height over 35 feet.
- Public building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. exception
A public or semipublic building such as a school, church, library or general hospital may be erected to a height of 60 feet from grade, provided that required front, side and rear yards shall be increased one foot for each foot in height over 35 feet.
Other
- Side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. adjacent to residential/agriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them.
The minimum side yard adjoining or adjacent to a residential or agricultural district shall be ten feet.
Setback
Buildings shall be located ten feet or more from any street right-of-way that is 50 feet or greater in width or 35 feet or more from the centerline of any street right-of-way less than 50 feet in width.
From the ordinance
The lot area for each permitted use in the B-2 district shall be as follows: (1) A minimum of one acre with no public water or sewer. (2) A minimum of 30,000 square feet with public water. (3) A minimum of 15,000 square feet with public sewer and water.
Use details
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"**Sec. 66-474.** - Area regulations.",
"**Sec. 66-475.** - Setback regulations.",
"**Sec. 66-476.** - Frontage and yard regulations.",
"**Sec. 66-477.** - Height regulations.",
"**Sec. 66-478.** - Abortion clinic distance requirements and standards."
]
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