Dimensional standards
Lot
Density
Height & bulk
- Minimum landscaping
- 20%
Uses
Permitted by right33
- 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
- Food trucks
- 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
- Pet shops
- 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
- Radio and television broadcasting stations, studios and offices
- Repair services and businesses
- Restaurants
- Retail sales establishments in buildings with a gross floor area not exceeding 50,000 square feet
- 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 use17
- Multifamily dwellings
- Senior housing
- Student designed dwellings
- Amusement arcades
- Billiard and pool rooms
- Bowling alleys
- Lighted athletic fields owned and/or operated by the City of Williamsburg
- Micro-brewery, micro-distillery, micro-winery and/or micro-cidery
- Museums and art galleries with outdoor display
- Nursing homes
- Offices in buildings with a gross floor area exceeding 50,000 square feet
- Parking garages
- Private Club or Lodge
- Recreation centers
- Retail sales establishments in buildings with a gross floor area exceeding 50,000 square feet
- Tourist or visitor information centers
- Use of land as parking for and/or access to a use in an adjoining jurisdiction
Accessory1
Extracted standards
4 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. with special use permitConditional useAllowed only after a discretionary approval — usually a public hearing and a board vote.66 ft
Buildings may be erected with a height greater than 45 feet from grade but not more than 66 feet from grade, subject to the exceptions set forth in section (1), paragraphs a, b and c above, pursuant to a special use permit approved by the city council
Landscaping & trees
- Greenbelt width50 ft
Along streets designated by the comprehensive plan as greenbelts, a greenbelt of at least 50 feet shall be provided along the street line; except that at least 75 feet shall be required along Route 199.
Other
- Rear yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. for non-multifamily uses15 ft
Other uses: There shall be a rear yard of not less than 15 feet.
- Transitional screening required when adjacent to residential
Transitional screening shall be required when a lot is adjacent to a residential zoning district, in accordance with subsection 21-357(4).
From the ordinance
The lot area and density requirements in the urban business district B-3 are as follows: (1) Dwelling units: There shall be a maximum density of 14 dwelling units per net acre...