Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right48
- Dwelling, garden apartment
- Dwelling, quadruplex (§ 31-712)
- Dwelling, townhouse or rowhouse (§ 31-712)
- Dwelling, multi-family and apartment buildings (not otherwise enumerated)
- Mixed use dwelling
- Residential subdivisions, major, conventional option
- Residential subdivisions, minor (Art. 5, § 31-506(b)), conventional option
- Civic building
- Cultural uses, including museums, art galleries, opera houses
- Day care (family day home), 1—4 children
- Hotels and motels
- Libraries
- Medical clinics and dental offices
- Natural area preserve
- Parks, neighborhood
- Parks/open space (generally)
- Safety services
- Offices
- Arts, crafts and boutique
- Banks
- Book stores
- Business services
- Catering
- Coffee houses
- Convenience stores (as part of an office structure)
- Fruit and vegetable stands
- Florists
- Pharmacy
- Photography studio
- Day care (family day home), 1–4 children
- Fire station
- Government offices
- Library
- Museums
- Park, playground, or recreational area (public)
- Place of worship
- Post office
- Public safety facility
- School, elementary or middle
- School, high
- Utility facility, minor
- Restaurant, sit-down/delicatessen
- Forestry/silvicultural activity consistent with Code of Virginia § 10.1-1126.1
- Neighborhood gardens
- 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 use34
- Adult care residence/assisted living facility
- Adult day care center
- Day care, child day center
- Day care, child (as accessory use to permitted place of worship or school)
- Fishing and boating facilities
- Health club/physical fitness facility
- Club, golf, tennis, swim
- Marinas
- 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, business or trade
- School, charter, private, or parochial
- Schools, dance/art/music schools
- Schools, elementary
- Schools, nursery or preschool
- 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)
- Grocery stores
- Hardware stores (less than 60,000 square feet)
- Golf course
- Nursing home
- Park, playground, or recreational area (private)
- Private club or lodge
- Utility facility, major
- Thrift stores, consignment stores
- Theaters
- Television or radio transmission towers
- Towers (50,000 volts or more)
- Transmitting facilities, not specifically enumerated
From the ordinance
| B-1 | 5,000 | — | 0.5 | 0.7 | 50 | 50 | — | 50 | 10 | 10 | (7) | 20 | — | — | — |