Virginia Beach, Virginia · District

O-1

O-1 Office District

Dimensional standards

O-1 lot requirementsSTREETFront 30 ftRear 10 ftSide 30 ftMin width 50 ftMIN LOT AREA5,000 sq ftMAX HEIGHT35 ft
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 right11

  • Business offices of advertising, real estate, insurance, commercial or industrial establishments
  • Child care education centers in connection with public or private elementary schools or religious uses
  • Day-care centers
  • Finance agency offices, banks
  • Florists retail
  • Governmental centers and offices and other public uses and structures appropriate to the character of the district, necessary to its servicing, or requiring location within the district
  • Medical, optical and dental offices and clinics; legal, engineering, architectural and similar professional offices, accounting, auditing and bookkeeping service offices
  • Offices in which goods, wares or merchandise are not commercially created, displayed, stored, exchanged or sold
  • Offices of miscellaneous business services such as consumer credit reporting agencies, mailing list and stenographic services, business and management consulting services
  • Veterinary establishments, except for boarding of animals
  • Wind energy conversion systems, roof-mounted, except as provided below

Accessory3

Prohibited3

Extracted standards

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

Other

Signage

  • Freestanding sign restrictions

    No establishment having a frontage of less than one hundred (100) feet shall have a freestanding sign. No establishment having a frontage of at least one hundred (100) feet but less than or equal to two hundred (200) feet shall have a freestanding sign exceeding thirty-two (32) square feet in area per face, and no establishment having a frontage of more than two hundred (200) feet shall have a freestanding sign exceeding seventy-five (75) square feet in area per face.

  • No sign shall exceed one hundred fifty (150) square feet in area.

  • Sign frequency

    For each forty (40) feet of frontage and for each eighty (80) feet of lot line adjoining a street, but not constituting frontage, not more than one (1) sign and not more than thirty-two (32) square feet of signage shall be permitted.

From the ordinance

The following chart lists those uses permitted within the O-1 and O-2 Office Districts. No portion of any building or other structure located within an O-1 Office District shall exceed thirty-five (35) feet.
Article 8, Sec. 801-805

Use details

{
  "dropped_conditions": {
    "permitted_uses": [
      "Offices of nonprofit organizations, such as professional organizations, civic, social and fraternal associations, political organizations, religious organizations, and labor unions; provided, however, that no hiring halls shall be permitted in this district"
    ]
  }
}