Staunton, Virginia · District
B-4
Cultural and Recreational Planned Business District
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right10
- Banks
- Bakeries employing not more than five persons and when products are sold only at retail on the premises
- Custom dressmaking, millinery, tailoring, or similar retail trades employing not more than five persons on the premises
- Drug store
- Motels, hotels, and bed and breakfast establishments
- Offices, business and professional only
- Accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental to permitted uses not otherwise prohibited in this district which comply with Chapter 18.110 SCC
- Specialty shops catering to local and tourist markets
- Art galleries, museums, tourist centers, community centers, libraries, and similar types of uses intended to promote cultural and/or recreational resources
- Co-location of telecommunication antenna and related equipment as regulated in SCC 18.185.020(4)
Conditional / special use3
- Any other business use, not specifically set forth above, considered compatible with the above and the cultural and/or recreational use of the district
- Automobile service establishments, including gasoline service stations and automatic car-washing establishments
- Food stores, fruit or vegetables stands
Accessory1
- Accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental to permitted uses
Prohibited3
Extracted standards
5 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- All buildings and improvements require review and approval
no building or structure shall be erected, altered or expanded, nor shall the premises, including parking and landscaping, be altered or expanded, until the same has been reviewed by the planning commission and approved by city council
Signage
- Maximum freestanding sign area30 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
one freestanding sign for each street frontage, which sign shall not exceed 30 square feet
- Maximum freestanding sign heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.30 ft
nor exceed the height of 30 feet
- Maximum wall sign area per linear foot of building frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street.1.5 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000./ft
one wall sign attached to the building having a maximum area of one and one-half square feet for each linear foot of building frontage
- Minimum freestanding sign setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from property lines5 ft
Freestanding signs shall be set back a minimum or five feet from all property lines.
From the ordinance
No structure shall be built closer than 35 feet of the front lot line. No building or structures of any type shall be erected within the district that exceed 35 feet in height.
Use details
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"dropped_conditions": {
"permitted_uses": [
"Eating and drinking establishments, including restaurants and tea rooms; provided, no drive-in service shall be permitted"
]
}
}