B-2
Dimensional standards
Lot
Density
Height & bulk
- Minimum landscaping
- 20%
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right32
- Automobile rental agencies with no storage of vehicles on the premises
- Bake shops
- Banks and financial institutions
- Churches and other permanent buildings used for religious worship
- Convenience service establishments
- Convenience stores
- Day care centers
- Fitness studios
- Fitness centers
- Freestanding automatic teller machines
- Funeral homes
- Hotels/motels and timeshare units
- Medical and dental offices and clinics
- Museums and art galleries without outdoor display
- Offices in buildings with a gross floor area not exceeding 50,000 square feet
- Parking lots as a principal use
- Playgrounds, parks and unlighted athletic fields owned and/or operated by the City of Williamsburg
- Printing and photocopying shops
- Public art approved through the City's public arts program
- Public buildings owned and/or operated by the City of Williamsburg
- Public or private elementary, middle and high schools, colleges and universities
- Repair services and businesses
- Restaurants
- Retail sales establishments in buildings with a gross floor area not exceeding 50,000 square feet
- Service stations
- Storage of materials and supplies incidental to the conduct of a permitted use
- Theaters and assembly halls
- Veterinary hospitals and clinics
- Off-street parking and loading areas for permitted uses
- Signs
- Accessory uses
- Home occupations
Conditional / special use23
- Multifamily dwellings
- Townhouses
- Automobile rental agencies with storage of vehicles on the premises
- Carwashes as a principal use
- Contractor's establishments, offices and display rooms
- Family Entertainment Center
- Garden centers
- Lighted athletic fields owned and/or operated by the City of Williamsburg
- Micro-brewery, micro-distillery, micro-winery and/or micro-cidery
- Miniature golf courses
- Ministorage warehouses
- Motor vehicle, boat and watercraft, sales and service establishments
- Museums and art galleries with outdoor display
- Newspaper printing and publishing facilities
- Not-for-profit retail and distribution center
- Offices in buildings with a gross floor area exceeding 50,000 square feet
- Parking garages
- Retail sales establishments in buildings with a gross floor area exceeding 50,000 square feet
- Rooming facilities for exchange visitors
- Tourist or visitor information centers
- Use of land as parking for and/or access to a use in an adjoining jurisdiction
- Warehouses
- Wholesale businesses
Accessory1
Extracted standards
19 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Front yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. on Richmond Road between New Hope/Bypass Road and Ironbound Road, Parkway Drive, Penniman Road and Second Street15 ft
For lots fronting on Richmond Road between New Hope/Bypass Road and Ironbound Road, Parkway Drive, Penniman Road and Second Street, there shall be a front yard of not less than 15 feet.
- Front yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. on Second Street between Page Street and Parkway Drive5 ft
For lots fronting on Second Street between Page Street and Parkway Drive there shall be a front yard of not less than five feet.
- Minimum landscaped open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted.20 pct
At least 20 percent of the gross lot area of a lot in the corridor business district B-2 shall be landscaped open space.
- Recreation area for multifamilyMultifamily dwellingA building of four or more dwelling units. Where zoning is most restrictive. developments over 25 units200 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000./unit
A minimum of 200 square feet of recreation area shall be provided for each dwelling unit in a multifamily development of more than 25 dwelling units.
- Side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. on corner lots17.5 ft
The other yard abutting the street shall be a side yard and shall not be less than 17½ feet for both main and accessory buildings.
- Side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. on corner lots adjacent to Parkway Drive, Penniman Road and Second Street15 ft
Not less than 15 feet for both main and accessory buildings adjacent to Parkway Drive, Penniman Road and Second Street.
- TownhouseTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot. accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. buildings0 prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance. except detached garages
No accessory buildings shall be permitted, except for detached garages.
- TownhouseTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot. density14 du/acredu/acreDwelling units per acre — the number of homes allowed on each acre of land.
The density of a townhouse development shall not exceed 14 townhouses per net acre.
- TownhouseTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot. front yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. from street right-of-way35 ft
All buildings in the townhouse development shall be located at least 35 feet from any street or highway right-of-way.
- TownhouseTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot. front yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. on Parkway Drive, Penniman Road and Second Street15 ft
For lots fronting on Parkway Drive, Penniman Road and Second Street, all buildings in the townhouse development shall be located at least 15 feet from any street or highway right-of-way.
- Greenbelt along streets designated as greenbelts50 ft
Along streets designated by the comprehensive plan as greenbelts, a greenbelt of at least 50 feet shall be provided along the street line.
- Greenbelt along Route 19975 ft
At least 75 feet shall be required along Route 199.
- TownhouseTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot. minimum lot widthLot widthHow wide a lot must be, usually measured at the front setback line.20 ft
The minimum lot width for each townhouse shall be 20 feet.
- TownhouseTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot. rear yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates.15 ft
Each townhouse shall have a rear yard of not less than 15 feet.
- TownhouseTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot. recreation area for 25+ units200 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000./unit
A minimum of 200 square feet of active or passive recreation area shall be provided for each dwelling unit in a townhouse development having 25 or more dwelling units.
- TownhouseTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot. side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. for end units7.5 ft
Each townhouse located at the end of a group of townhouses shall have a side yard of at least seven and one-half feet.
- TownhouseTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot. sidewalk width5 ft
Sidewalks of at least five feet in width, constructed of concrete, brick or other material of reasonable durability.
- Transitional screening width when adjacent to residential or Colonial Parkway35 ft
A landscaped open space area for transitional screening at least 35 feet in width shall be provided along side and rear property lines when adjacent to a lot in a residential zoning district or to the Colonial Parkway.
- Transitional screening width on Second Street between Page Street and Parkway Drive10 ft
A landscaped open space area for transitional screening at least ten feet in width shall be provided along side and rear property lines when adjacent to a lot in a residential zoning district for lots fronting on Second Street between Page Street and Parkway Drive.
From the ordinance
There shall be a maximum density of 14 dwelling units per net acre