Radford, Virginia · District
B-2
General Business District
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right25
- Any uses or structures located in this district at the time of adoption
- Retail stores and shops
- Auto service stations, auto service centers and self-service gasoline stations
- Automatic or self-service auto wash facilities
- Automobile, truck, trailer, recreational vehicle, equipment, machinery, rental, service and repair businesses (no junkyards, no outdoor repair)
- Building materials and mechanical, electrical, plumbing and heating supplies sales
- Banks and other financial institutions
- Barber shops or beauty parlors
- Bicycle sales and repair shops
- Catering or delicatessen business
- Craft beverage manufacturing
- Contractors' offices, shops and display rooms
- Entertainment, amusement and recreational facilities within enclosed buildings (theaters, art galleries, amusement centers, bowling alleys, dance/nightclubs, lodge/club, auditoriums, assembly halls, not adult uses)
- Garden centers and plant nurseries
- Hotels and motels
- Machine shops and sheet metal fabricating shops
- Parking areas and parking garages as principal use
- Public utilities or public service or transportation uses (including bus stations, generating, purification or treatment plants, water storage tanks, pumping/regulator stations, telephone exchange, substations, major transmission lines)
- Recycling collection centers (no processing on site)
- Research facilities and testing laboratories
- Restaurants and other food service and catering establishments
- Terminals and related facilities for public transportation
- Veterinary clinics, animal hospitals and animal shelters (not kennels)
- Vocational, business and professional schools
- Wholesale and distribution businesses within building footprint
Conditional / special use8
- Hospitals
- Miniature golf course, golf driving ranges, drive-in theaters and other outdoor commercial recreational facilities
- Kennels or runs
- Carnival or fair or similar outdoor activity
- Outdoor sales area or flea market
- Private storage buildings over 300 square feet
- Drive up facilities to access banks, business, and restaurant services
- Apartments above and/or below the main ground street level
Accessory7
- Living quarters in main structure of persons employed on premises
- Temporary buildings for construction work
- Signs as provided in Article V
- Parking as provided in Article IV
- Swimming pool associated with development
- Private storage buildings 300 square feet or less
- Temporary buildings for construction work (removed within 12 months)
Extracted standards
1 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- ProhibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance. uses in side yards abutting conservation/recreation
Required side yards abutting property in any Conservation or Recreation District shall not be used for outdoor storage, outdoor display/sales, or loading/unloading within 10 ft of street right-of-way.
From the ordinance
No minimum lot area/width; required yards table empty; restrictions on side yards abutting conservation/recreation.