Onancock, Virginia · District
B-1
Business, Downtown, District B-1
Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
- Three-family
- by_right
- Four-plus family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right19
- Residences on floors above the ground floor
- Professional and business offices
- Banks and lending institutions
- Theaters
- Restaurants, as defined in section 16-340, or catering establishments, that close before 11:00 p.m.
- Signs as permitted under article XI
- Personal service businesses, such as, but not limited to, barbershops, beauty parlors, spa services, and shoe repair shops
- Retail sales establishments for products with no age restrictions
- Public utilities
- Virginia ABC Stores
- Libraries, museums, education facilities
- Exercise gyms or studios
- Homestay in residences, as defined in section 38-77 (with no limit on distance between homestay properties and no limit on number of homestay properties owned)
- Hotels with up to ten rooms
- Churches and other places of worship
- Municipal uses
- Public parking
- Public outdoor spaces
- Art galleries, artist and/or artisan studios
Conditional / special use6
- Clubs and lodges
- Cigar, hookah, or vaping sales or lounges
- Retail establishments that sell any product with age limitations
- Any business open after 11:00 p.m.
- Hotels with more than ten rooms
- Open air produce and arts and crafts markets
Prohibited4
- Fuel sales, gas station, or fuel storage and distribution
- Processing of any produce, seafood, meat, or poultry
- Vehicle repair
- Any business that uses noxious materials (any materials which are injurious to health upon casual human exposure without protective clothing or other protective equipment)
Extracted standards
4 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
Public utility structures, church spires, belfries, cupolas, monuments, water towers, chimneys, flues, flag poles, television antennas and radio aerials are exempt.
- Maximum accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.20 ft
No accessory building may be more than one and one-half stories or 20 feet in height.
- Maximum accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. in storiesStoreysHabitable floor levels. Whether a basement or attic counts is defined by the local code.1.5 storiesStoreysHabitable floor levels. Whether a basement or attic counts is defined by the local code.
No accessory building may be more than one and one-half stories or 20 feet in height.
- Maximum parapet wall heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. above building4 ft
Parapet walls may be to four feet above the height of the building on which the walls rest.
From the ordinance
Business, Downtown, District B-1: permitted uses, special exceptions, prohibited uses, height regulations.