Staunton, Virginia · District

B-2

General Business District

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Dimensional standards

Plan view of the district’s stated lot requirements. Solid line: the property line. Dashed: the setback lines the ordinance imposes; a building must stay inside the tinted envelope. Drawn from the figures extracted below — illustrative, not a survey.

Uses

Permitted by right16

Any use permitted in the B-1 local business district
Auto, manufactured home or truck parking, storage, service and repair shop, or sales lots
Bakeries employing not more than 10 persons and where products are sold at retail on the premises
Contractors' establishments, offices and display rooms where the business conducted on the premises is entirely within a completely enclosed building and where there is no storage of supplies or equipment on the premises outside the building
Custom dressmaking, millinery, tailoring, or similar retail trades employing not more than 10 persons on the premises
Laundry employing not over 10 persons on the premises, excluding owners or drivers
Plumbing, heating, electric or paperhanging offices and display rooms, where the business conducted on the premises is entirely within a completely enclosed building and where there is no storage of supplies of equipment on the premises outside the building
Radio or television broadcasting stations, studios, or offices, excepting transmission towers
Tire recapping and vulcanizing within a completely enclosed building and with no outdoor storage of tires, discarded rubber, or similar material
Parking garages and parking lots
Commercial, job, and newspaper printing not employing more than 10 persons on the premises
Utility substations
Business and vocational schools not involving operations of an industrial character
Outdoor advertising as regulated in Chapter 18.140 SCC
Accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental to the above uses
Co-location of telecommunication antenna and related equipment as regulated in SCC 18.185.020(4)

Conditional / special use6

Group care facility
Group house
Living and/or sleeping quarters in detached accessory buildings and on the ground and basement floors of main buildings
Multiple-family dwelling
Day nurseries, private
Automobile body repair shops including painting, upholstering, rebuilding, reconditioning, body and fender work

Accessory1

Accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental to permitted uses

Extracted standards

5 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.

Fencing & walls

Maximum screening height7 ft
screening shall not be required in excess of seven feet in height

Lighting

Full cut-off lighting fixtures
Full cut-off or equivalent fixtures shall be used

Other

Consider limiting hours near residential
When adjacent zoning districts include residential uses, consideration should be given to limiting hours of operation to normal daytime business hours.
Manufactured home condition
all manufactured homes are in a state of good repair and dismantled or junked cars or trucks unfit for operation on the highways shall not be stored therein
Sealed surface for driveways and parking
All of the driveway used for ingress and egress and all of the area used for parking and/or storage of vehicles must be constructed of a sealed surface

From the ordinance

Front yard setback not less than five feet; no building shall exceed six stories or 75 feet in height.
18.60 B-2 General Business District

Use details

{
  "dropped_conditions": {
    "permitted_uses": [
      "Cleaning and dyeing plants using not more than two units, neither of which shall exceed 36 inches by 54 inches in size",
      "Repair services or businesses, including repairing of bicycles, guns, radios, television sets and other home appliances, typewriters, watches, clocks, and shoes; provided, that no equipment of over two horsepower shall be used and provided not over 10 persons are employed on the premises",
      "Wholesaling from sample stocks only; provided, that no manufacturing or storage for distribution shall be permitted on the premises",
      "Processing and manufacturing establishments that are not objectionable because of smoke, odor, dust, or noise, but only when such processing and manufacturing is incidental to a retail business conducted on the premises and where not more than 10 persons are employed on the premises in the processing or manufacturing activities"
    ],
    "conditional_uses": [
      "Processing and manufacturing establishments that are not objectionable because of smoke, odor, dust, or noise when the processing and manufacturing activity is conducted entirely within a completely enclosed building and where there is no storage or supplies or equipment on the premises outside the building"
    ]
  }
}

B-2