Richmond
Zoning districts
57 districts, grouped by category.
Commercial
8B-1 Neighborhood Business District
- Max height
- 25 ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
- Permitted uses
- 23
Community Business District
- Min lot
- 10,000 sq ft
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 25 ft
- Permitted uses
- 45
General Business District
- Min lot
- 10,000 sq ft
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 0 ft
- Permitted uses
- 64
B-4
B-5 Central Business District
- Max height
- 5 ft
- Front setback
- 0 ft
- Permitted uses
- 29
B-6 District
- Min lot
- 25,000 sq ft (0.57 ac)
- Max height
- 5 ft
- Front setback
- 0 ft
- Permitted uses
- 30
B-7 District
- Min lot
- 25,000 sq ft (0.57 ac)
- Permitted uses
- 49
UB-2 Urban Business District
- Max height
- 4 ft
- Front setback
- 0 ft
- Permitted uses
- 33
Industrial
2Residential
24Single-Family Residential District
- Min lot
- 20,000 sq ft (0.46 ac)
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 35 ft
- Permitted uses
- 22
Single-Family Residential District
- Min lot
- 15,000 sq ft (0.34 ac)
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 30 ft
- Permitted uses
- 22
Single-Family Residential District
- Min lot
- 10,000 sq ft
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 25 ft
- Permitted uses
- 22
Single-Family Residential District
- Min lot
- 7,500 sq ft
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 25 ft
- Permitted uses
- 22
R-43 Multifamily Residential District
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 25 ft
- Permitted uses
- 5
R-48 Multifamily Residential District
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 25 ft
- Permitted uses
- 5
Single-Family Residential District
- Min lot
- 6,000 sq ft
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 25 ft
- Permitted uses
- 22
R-53 Multifamily Residential District
- Min lot
- 5,000 sq ft
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
- Permitted uses
- 7
Single- and Two-Family Residential District
- Min lot
- 5,000 sq ft
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 25 ft
- Permitted uses
- 23
Single-Family Attached Residential District
- Min lot
- 2,200 sq ft
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
- Max density
- 10 du/ac
- Permitted uses
- 25
R-63 Multifamily Residential District
- Min lot
- 2,200 sq ft
- Front setback
- 0 ft
- Permitted uses
- 23
R-7 Single- and Two-Family Urban Residential District
- Min lot
- 3,600 sq ft
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 10 ft
- Permitted uses
- 4
R-73 Multifamily Residential District
- Max height
- 150 ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
- Permitted uses
- 16
R-8 Urban Residential District
- Min lot
- 3,000 sq ft
- Max height
- 2 ft
- Front setback
- 10 ft
- Permitted uses
- 4
RO-2 Residential-Office District
- Min lot
- 5,000 sq ft
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 25 ft
- Permitted uses
- 21
RO-22 District
- Max height
- 150 ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
- Permitted uses
- 16
RO-23 District
- Max height
- 150 ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
- Permitted uses
- 16
RO-24 District
- Max height
- 150 ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
- Permitted uses
- 16
RO-25 District
- Max height
- 150 ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
- Permitted uses
- 16
RO-30 District
Residential Office-6 District
- Max height
- 150 ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
- Permitted uses
- 16
Residential Office-7 District
- Max height
- 150 ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
- Permitted uses
- 16
Residential Office-8 District
- Max height
- 150 ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
- Permitted uses
- 16
Residential Office-9 District
- Max height
- 150 ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
- Permitted uses
- 16
Mixed use
19RF-1 Riverfront District
- Min lot
- 25,000 sq ft (0.57 ac)
- Front setback
- 0 ft
- Permitted uses
- 27
RF-2 Riverfront District
- Front setback
- 0 ft
- Permitted uses
- 28
RO-1 District
- Max height
- 150 ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
- Permitted uses
- 3
RO-10 District
- Max height
- 150 ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
- Permitted uses
- 16
RO-11 District
- Max height
- 150 ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
- Permitted uses
- 16
RO-12 District
- Max height
- 150 ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
- Permitted uses
- 16
RO-13 District
- Max height
- 150 ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
- Permitted uses
- 16
RO-14 District
- Max height
- 150 ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
- Permitted uses
- 16
RO-15 District
- Max height
- 150 ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
- Permitted uses
- 16
RO-16 District
- Max height
- 150 ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
- Permitted uses
- 16
RO-17 District
- Max height
- 150 ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
- Permitted uses
- 16
- Max height
- 150 ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
- Permitted uses
- 16
- Max height
- 150 ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
- Permitted uses
- 16
- Max height
- 150 ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
- Permitted uses
- 16
- Max height
- 150 ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
- Permitted uses
- 16
RO-3 District
- Max height
- 150 ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
- Permitted uses
- 16
RO-4 District
- Max height
- 150 ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
- Permitted uses
- 16
RO-5 District
- Max height
- 150 ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
- Permitted uses
- 16
Transit-Oriented Nodal District
- Front setback
- 0 ft
- Permitted uses
- 34
General provisions
314 rules that bind every district rather than one — sign regulations, parking, floodplain and the rest of the code’s citywide chapters.
The aggregate area of all signs visible from any street frontage shall not exceed 32 square feet. In addition thereto, where two or more main buildings are located on a lot, each building may be permitted to have a wall sign not exceeding 12 square feet in area.
In the UB and UB-2 Urban Business Districts: ...
The aggregate area of all signs located on a lot shall not exceed one square foot for each linear foot of street frontage nor in any case 100 square feet, provided that no individual sign shall exceed the smaller of 32 square feet in area or such smaller sign area specified elsewhere in this article.
In the CM Coliseum Mall District: ...
The aggregate area of all signs directed toward or intended to be viewed from any street or mall frontage shall not exceed two square feet for each linear foot of lot frontage along the street or mall nor in any case 300 square feet for each street frontage.
In the DCC Downtown Civic and Cultural District: ...
The aggregate area of all signs directed toward or intended to be viewed from any street or mall frontage shall not exceed two square feet for each linear foot of lot frontage along the street or mall.
In the OS Office-Service District: ...
The aggregate area of all signs directed toward or intended to be viewed from any street frontage shall not exceed 12 square feet for street frontages of less than 100 feet, 20 square feet for street frontages of 100 feet to 300 feet, and 32 square feet for street frontages of greater than 300 feet.
The aggregate area of all signs directed toward or intended to be viewed from any street frontage shall not exceed two square feet for each linear foot of lot frontage along the street nor in any case 200 square feet for each street frontage.
The aggregate area of all signs directed toward or intended to be viewed from any street frontage shall not exceed two square feet for each linear foot of lot frontage along the street nor in any case 200 square feet for each street frontage.
On any lot utilized for a nonconforming use and located in an R-1, R-2, R-3, R-4, R-5, R-5A, R-6, R-7, or R-8 residential district, one wall sign shall be permitted, provided that such sign shall not exceed 12 square feet in area and shall not be illuminated.
A nonconforming sign that is destroyed or damaged by any casualty to an extent not exceeding 50 percent of its area may be restored within two years after such destruction or damage but shall not be enlarged in any manner.
any sign permitted by this article for which a permit to erect a sign is not required by the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code or any other building code which may be adopted by the City shall require a certificate of zoning compliance
Every building erected and every use established shall be located on a lot having frontage on an improved public street or access thereto by means of a recorded permanent easement... A permitted accessory building, structure or use may be located on a lot or portion thereof having frontage only on an improved public alley, provided that... The accessory building or structure shall not exceed 12 feet in height.
a single-family detached or two-family dwelling on a lot less than 50 feet in width legally recorded prior to the effective date of the ordinance from which such requirements are derived shall have a side or street side yard adjacent to each side lot line of not less than ten percent of the width of the lot, but in no case less than three feet.
a single-family detached, attached, or two-family dwelling on a lot less than 50 feet in width along the principal street frontage legally recorded prior to the effective date of the ordinance from which such requirements are derived shall have a street side yard along any street frontage where a front yard is not required of not less ten percent of the width of the lot, but in no case less than three feet.
In any R district, a two-family dwelling shall be located on a lot having an area of not less than 6,000 square feet, except that in the R-7, R-8, and R-63 districts, a two-family dwelling shall be located on a lot having an area of not less than 4,000 square feet.
More than one main building containing a permitted use, other than a single-family dwelling, or a two-family dwelling in an R-5A, R-6, R-7 or R-8 district, may be erected on a lot, provided that the regulations applicable in the district are met. A parsonage in a detached or attached building located on the same lot as a church or other place of worship shall be considered a permitted accessory use.
Where lots of record existing at the effective date of the ordinance from which this chapter is derived are to be combined or divided to create not more than two new lots, and where the width of such lots cannot be increased by acquisition of additional abutting land by reason of applicable sections of this chapter or other chapters of this Code, the width of such lots may be reduced by not more than ten percent of the minimum lot width required in the district in which they are located.
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