Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right76
- Adult day care center
- Boarding house
- Business residence/residential hotel
- Mixed use dwelling
- Boathouse
- Bed & Breakfast (§ 31-703)
- Civic building
- Day care (family day home), 1—4 children
- Health club/physical fitness facility
- Hotels and motels
- Libraries
- Medical clinics and dental offices
- Natural area preserve
- Parks, neighborhood
- Safety services
- School, charter, private, or parochial
- Schools, dance/art/music schools
- Schools, elementary
- Schools, nursery or preschool
- Offices
- Animal sales and care (indoor operations)
- Arts, crafts and boutique
- Automobile repair, minor
- Bakeries (excluding factory or distribution warehousing)
- Banks
- Book stores
- Catering
- Coffee houses
- Convenience retail center
- Convenience stores (as part of an office structure)
- Convenience stores (freestanding)
- Fertilizer and seed sales
- Fruit and vegetable stands
- Florists
- Pharmacy
- Photography studio
- Rental services other than passenger vehicles: indoor display/storage
- Day care (family day home), 1–4 children
- Day care center (commercial)
- Fire station
- Government offices
- Health club, gym, fitness center
- Library
- Park, playground, or recreational area (public)
- Place of worship
- Post office
- Public safety facility
- School, elementary or middle
- School, high
- Utility facility, minor
- Antique shops
- Art galleries
- Bank or financial institution
- Barber shop/beauty salon
- Business support services
- Day spa
- Drug store/pharmacy
- Dry cleaning/laundry
- Florist
- Grocery store/supermarket
- Hardware store
- Jewelry store
- Laundromat
- Medical/dental office
- Office, general
- Office, professional
- Pet store
- Restaurant, fast-food (no drive-through)
- Restaurant, sit-down/delicatessen
- Retail store, general
- Shopping center, less than 25,000 sq. ft.
- Forestry/silvicultural activity consistent with Code of Virginia § 10.1-1126.1
- Satellite dish antennas for private residential use (less than 36 inches in diameter)
- Small cell facilities (see Code of Virginia § 15.2-2316.3, § 15.2-2316.4, and § 15.2-2316.5)
- Telecommunications (co-location on existing tower or alternative tower structure)
- Bus/commuter stops/light rail stations
Conditional / special use86
- Dormitory
- Dwelling, garden apartment
- Dwelling, quadruplex (§ 31-712)
- Dwelling, townhouse or rowhouse (§ 31-712)
- Dwelling, triplex (§ 31-712)
- Group homes—Maximum of 8 residents not including onsite resident counselors (Ref. VC 15.2-2291)
- Retirement village (sec § 31-713)
- Subdivision, mixed use, TND option (§ 31-411(g))
- Animal pound/animal shelter
- Child-caring institution (including nursery schools)
- College or university
- Cultural uses, including museums, art galleries, opera houses
- Day care (family day home), 5—12 children
- Day care, child day center
- Day care, child (as accessory use to permitted place of worship or school)
- Fishing and boating facilities
- Club, golf, tennis, swim
- Lakes/reservoirs
- Marinas
- Medical, counseling centers (non-resident)
- Medical, counseling centers (non-resident) treatment of drug abuse and/or alcohol
- Medical, outpatient hospitals or special hospitals
- Medical, physical and mental rehabilitation (resident)
- Parking, commercial (not owned or operated by a public agency)
- Parks/open space (generally)
- Recreation, outdoor (generally)
- Place of worship, large, at least 6,000 square feet in main sanctuary
- Place of worship, small, under 6,000 square feet in main sanctuary
- Schools, boarding
- Schools, secondary or middle
- Swimming pools (not private residential)
- Utilities, electric transformer stations (excluding those exempt under local, state or federal law)
- Utilities, transmission lines (excluding those exempt under local, state or federal law)
- Utilities, utility installations (excluding installations by City of Suffolk and others exempt under state and federal law)
- Utility facilities, not specifically enumerated (excluding those exempt under local, state or federal law)
- Utility service facilities (excluding those exempt under local, state or federal law)
- Utility stations (excluding those exempt under local, state or federal law)
- Retail Sales and Service (Generally, not otherwise enumerated)
- Animal clinics
- Animal dealer
- Animal hospital
- Kennels, limited
- Animal sales and care (outdoor operations)
- Automobile repair, major and body shops
- Business services
- Car wash
- Convenience stores (with gasoline sales)
- Drive-through uses
- Food service: commissary, food bank
- Funeral home
- Gasoline service station
- Grocery stores
- Hardware stores (less than 60,000 square feet)
- Nurseries/greenhouses (primarily wholesale) with on-premises retail sales
- Rental services other than passenger vehicles: outdoor display or storage
- Group homes—Maximum of 8 residents not including onsite resident counselors (Ref. VA Code § 15.2-2291)
- Retirement village (see § 31-713)
- Fraternal organizations, lodges, and union halls
- Hotel/motel
- Museums
- Park, playground, or recreational area (private)
- Private club or lodge
- School, vocational or trade
- Utility facility, major
- Alcoholic beverage sales (off-premises consumption)
- Artisan manufacturing
- Catering establishment
- Convenience store
- Drive-through facility (accessory to a permitted use)
- Farmers market
- Gas station
- Liquor store
- Massage therapy establishment
- Microbrewery/micro-distillery (accessory tasting room)
- Outdoor display and sales (accessory)
- Restaurant, fast-food (with drive-through)
- Shopping center, 25,000–120,000 sq. ft. (see § 31-715 for supplemental regulations)
- Thrift stores, consignment stores
- Theaters
- Tobacco store
- Custom manufacturing
- Farmers markets
- Telecommunication towers (new construction or increase in height)
- Television or radio transmission towers
- Towers (50,000 volts or more)
- Transmitting facilities, not specifically enumerated
From the ordinance
| B-2 | 5,000 | — | 0.6 | 0.7 | 50 | 50 | — | 65 | 10 | 20 | (7) | 30 | — | — | — |