B-4
Dimensional standards
Lot
Density
Height & bulk
- Minimum landscaping
- 20%
Housing
Servicing
- Applies near
- Capitol Landing Road
- Geographic extent
- Capitol Landing Road corridor between the Colonial Parkway and Merrimac Trail
Uses
Permitted by right24
- Banks and financial institutions
- Convenience service establishments
- Convenience stores
- Restaurants
- Bake shops
- Micro-brewery, micro-distillery, micro-winery and/or micro-cidery
- Brew pubs
- Food trucks
- Schools for the culinary arts
- Day care centers
- Freestanding automatic teller machines
- Hotels/motels and timeshare units
- Medical offices, 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
- Playgrounds, parks and unlighted athletic fields owned and/or operated by the City of Williamsburg
- Public art approved through the City's public arts program
- Public buildings owned and/or operated by the City of Williamsburg
- 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
- Off-street parking and loading areas for permitted uses
- Signs
- Accessory uses
- Home occupations
Conditional / special use7
- Multifamily dwellings
- Garden centers
- Museums and art galleries with outdoor display
- Offices in buildings with a gross floor area exceeding 50,000 square feet
- 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
Accessory1
Extracted standards
6 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. for gasoline pump islands, pump island canopies and outdoor dining areas15 ft
Gasoline pump islands, pump island canopies and outdoor dining areas shall be required to have a front yard of not less than 15 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 culinary arts district B-4 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.
- 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