Franklin, Virginia · District
B-3
General Business District
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right44
- retail sales
- retail service
- church
- educational facility, primary/secondary
- educational facility, college/university
- cultural service
- public park or playground
- community center
- existing railroad lines
- public utility, neighborhood
- office/institution
- bus terminal
- hotel
- parking lot
- funeral home
- motor vehicle dealership
- motor vehicle repair, major
- motor vehicle repair, minor
- garden center
- construction sales and service
- industry, type 1
- commercial indoor amusement
- warehousing and distribution
- club
- commercial indoor entertainment
- child day center
- adult day care center
- adult day treatment facility
- assisted living facility
- brewery, distillery, cidery
- car wash
- construction office temporary
- construction office and storage facility
- crisis center
- greenhouse commercial
- lawn and garden services
- motor vehicle, parts/supply retail
- motor vehicle, rental
- park and ride facility
- restaurant
- taxidermy
- truck stop
- veterinary hospital/clinic
- wholesale trade
Conditional / special use15
- commercial accessory apartment
- commercial outdoor entertainment/sports and recreation
- communication tower
- live/work unit
- public utility, community
- rehabilitation service
- rooming house
- tattoo parlor
- workshop
- medical facility
- railroad yard
- blacksmith
- mobile home courts
- sexually oriented businesses
- kennel, commercial
Extracted standards
4 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Front setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. on block with residential frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street.25 ft
in a block which has business and residential district frontage all structures shall be set back at least 25 feet from the right-of-way of all public streets.
- Rear yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. where abuts R districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.30 ft
except where the district abuts an R district, then the minimum rear yard shall be 30 feet.
- Side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. where abuts R districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.25 ft
Where the use abuts an R district, the minimum side yard shall be 25 feet.
- Side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. for manufacturing uses15 ft
The minimum side yard shall be equal to the building height, but never less than 15 feet.
From the ordinance
B-3 General Business District Use Regulations. Maximum height 80 feet and six stories. Setbacks: 25 ft from right-of-way where block has business and residential frontage; industrial uses 25 ft; side yard manufacturing min 15 ft or building height; rear yard 30 ft where abuts R district.