Virginia Beach, Virginia · District
B-2
Community Business District
Dimensional standards
Lot
Uses
Permitted by right11
- Automobile repair garages and small engine repair establishments where all repair work is performed within a building
- Automobile repair establishments dealing exclusively in minor repairs of the type provided at automobile service stations
- Automobile service stations
- Boat sales
- Commercial parking garages and storage garages which include car wash, car rental or car detailing services when wholly enclosed within a parking structure and accessory thereto
- Commercial indoor recreation facilities
- Fiber-optics transmission facilities
- Mini-warehouses
- Mobile home sales
- Motor vehicle sales on lots larger than twenty thousand (20,000) square feet
- Public utility storage or maintenance installations
Conditional / special use23
- tattoo parlors
- body piercing establishments
- Assembly uses
- Automobile museums
- Bars or nightclubs
- Body piercing establishments
- Borrow pits
- Colleges and universities, public or private
- Commercial parking garages and storage garages which include car wash, car rental or car detailing services when wholly enclosed within a parking structure and accessory thereto
- Communication towers standard process
- Fiber-optics transmission facilities
- Heliports and helistops
- Home-based wildlife rehabilitation facilities
- Hospitals and sanitariums
- Marinas, commercial
- Mobile home sales
- Open-air markets
- Passenger transportation terminals
- Public utility storage or maintenance installations
- Radio and television broadcasting stations
- Satellite wagering facility
- Tattoo parlors
- Wildlife rehabilitation centers
Extracted standards
3 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Automobile repair work must be performed within a building
where all repair work is performed within a building
- Car wash, car rental, or car detailing must be wholly enclosed within parking structure and accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office.
when wholly enclosed within a parking structure and accessory thereto
- Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built. for motor vehicle sales20,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Motor vehicle sales on lots larger than twenty thousand (20,000) square feet
From the ordinance
B-2 Community Business District: A. Automobile repair garages and small engine repair establishments where all repair work is performed within a building; B. Automobile repair establishments dealing exclusively in minor repairs...
Use details
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"dropped_conditions": {
"conditional_uses": [
"Automobile repair garages and small engine repair establishments, provided that all repair work shall be performed within a building",
"Recreational and amusement facilities of an outdoor nature, which may be partially or temporarily enclosed on a seasonal basis with approval of city council; provided that, in the development of such properties, safeguards are provided to preserve and protect the existing character of adjacent properties, except that riding academies and recreational campgrounds shall not be allowed as a conditional use or otherwise"
]
}
}