B-1
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right1
Conditional / special use20
- Retail food stores that sell gasoline
- Bakeries
- Dry cleaners
- Laundries
- Wearing apparel stores
- Drug stores
- Post offices, county offices, town offices, and other similar public uses
- Barber and beauty shops
- Theaters and assembly halls
- Hotels, motels, inns, rooming and boarding houses, tourist homes
- Hotel condominium units (subject to conditions)
- Office buildings, newspaper office, bank
- Church
- Library
- Marina, boat and yacht sales and service agencies
- Service stations (with major repair under cover)
- Clubs and lodges
- Plumbing and electrical supply (with storage under cover)
- Furniture stores
- Restaurants whether serving or not serving alcoholic beverages
Extracted standards
11 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Density
- Maximum FARFloor area ratio (FAR)Total floor area divided by lot area — an FAR of 2.0 permits 20,000 sq ft of floor on a 10,000 sq ft lot. for hotel condominium units0.3 ratio
The hotel business comprised, in part, of condominium hotel units shall be subject to an overall floor area ratio (FAR) of .3.
Environmental
- Erosion and sediment control required
No person, firm or corporation, during construction... shall permit erosion of runoff of sediment, mud, dirt or other debris into creeks, streams or on streets, roads or abutting property.
Lighting
- Exterior lights shall reflect away from residential premises
Any exterior light or lights, except street and public lights, shall be so arranged to reflect light away from the adjoining premises in residential districts.
Lot
- Minimum parcel size for hotel condominium units20 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
The parcel of property on which the hotel condominium units are to be built must have a minimum acreage of 20 acres.
Other
- Central sewage/waste water system required
A central sewage/waste water system approved by the VDEQ and/or Virginia Department of Health, shall be established.
- Certificate of occupancy required
A certificate of occupancy (CO) shall be obtained from Lancaster County prior to the commencement of the intended use.
- Planning commission may increase side/rear yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. requirements for buffer
The planning commission and town council may increase side and rear yard requirements and impose landscape design requirements as needed for buffer area screening for adjacent residential properties.
- Landscaping may be required within front setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
Landscaping may be required within any established or required front setback area.
- Minimum side/rear yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. when adjoining residential districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.35 ft
For permitted uses, the minimum side yard or rear yard adjoining or adjacent to a residential district shall be 35 feet.
- All utility transmission lines shall be underground
All utility transmission lines shall be underground.
Parking
- Off-street parkingMinimum parkingThe number of off-street spaces a development must provide before it may open. required for restaurants
Off-street parking as required by this chapter.
From the ordinance
B-1 Districts cover that portion of the town shown on the zoning map, and which is intended for the conduct of general business.