Richmond, Virginia · District
B-1
B-1 Neighborhood Business District
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right23
- Adult day care facilities
- Art galleries
- Banks, savings and loan offices and similar financial services
- Churches and other places of worship
- Day nurseries licensed by the State of Virginia Department of Social Services
- Dry cleaning and laundering establishments (capacity limits)
- Dwelling units within same building as other permitted principal uses (above ground floor or to rear)
- Grocery stores, convenience stores and specialty food and beverage stores
- Laundromats and laundry and dry cleaning pick-up stations
- Libraries, museums, schools, parks and recreational facilities owned or operated by a governmental agency
- Office supply, business and office service, photocopy and custom printing establishments
- Offices, including business, professional, administrative, medical and dental offices and clinics
- Parking areas serving uses permitted in this district
- Personal service businesses
- Radio broadcasting studios and offices
- Restaurants, tearooms, cafes, delicatessens, ice cream parlors and similar food and beverage service establishments
- Retail stores and shops
- Rights-of-way, easements and appurtenances for public utilities and transportation
- Service businesses that service, repair or rent household items
- Shopping centers containing uses permitted in this district
- Wireless communications facilities, microwave relay facilities, and radio broadcast antennas
- Short-term rental
- Accessory uses and structures
Accessory1
- Accessory uses and structures customarily incidental and clearly subordinate to uses permitted in this district
Extracted standards
3 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Maximum floor area for new buildings10,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
No newly constructed building shall contain more than 10,000 square feet of floor area.
- Outdoor accessory useAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. restrictions
Outdoor accessory uses such as displays, temporary sales areas, play equipment and similar activities shall not be permitted, nor shall any pay phone or vending machine be located outside of a completely enclosed building.
- Screening where side lot line abuts R districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.3.5 ft
Where a side lot line abuts property in an R district, there shall be a continuous evergreen vegetative screen not less than 3½ feet in height at the time of installation or opaque structural fence or wall not less than four feet in height erected along such lot line, but not within 15 feet of any street line.
From the ordinance
No building or structure in the B-1 Neighborhood Business District shall exceed 25 feet in height. No newly constructed building shall contain more than 10,000 square feet of floor area.