Urbanna, Virginia · District

B-2

Special Waterfront Mixed Use
Mixed useWaterfrontAll Urbanna districts0

Dimensional standards

B-2 lot requirementsSTREETbuildable areaFront 35 ftMAX HEIGHT35 ft / 3 storiesMAX DENSITY12 du/acMIN OPEN SPACE20%
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 right2

  • Marinas, docks, and small-scale associated buildings and uses related to water activities
  • Stores for the sale of retail and wholesale seafood

Conditional / special use8

Extracted standards

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

Density

Height

Other

  • No buildings shall be located closer than 35 feet from any public right-of-way or closer than 15 feet from a private drive or access road except that parking areas and sidewalks may be located within five feet and private drives may be located within ten feet of any blank or windowless wall.

  • Emergency vehicle access width to waterside20 ft

    The waterfront planned unit development shall provide emergency vehicle access at least 20 feet in width to the waterside portion of the project.

  • Preservation of natural amenities

    The overall site design of the waterfront planned unit development shall demonstrate a reasonable effort to preserve the natural amenities of the site, particularly mature trees and existing vegetation.

  • Public accessway to water per 100 feet of water frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street.1 accessway per 100 ft

    A public accessway to the water shall be provided for each 100 feet of water frontage the project occupies.

  • Underground telephone and electrical service

    Each site shall be provided with telephone and electrical service buried underground and installed in accordance with applicable codes and ordinances.

  • Furthermore, usable common open space of at least 20 percent of the project area shall be reserved for public use.

From the ordinance

The overall residential density of the waterfront planned unit development shall not exceed 12 units per gross acre and the maximum density shall not exceed 20 units per acre of any particular acre within the waterfront planned unit development.
Sec. 34-189 to 34-193