Williamsburg, Virginia · District
LB-2
Limited Business Neighborhood District
Dimensional standards
Lot
Density
Height & bulk
- Minimum landscaping
- 15%
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right19
- single-family detached dwelling
- duplex dwelling
- hotel/motel with 10 or fewer bedrooms
- playground, park, unlighted athletic field (city-owned)
- public art
- public building (city-owned)
- bake shop (≤10,000 sqft building)
- bank/financial institution (≤10,000 sqft building)
- convenience service establishment (barbershop, beauty parlor, spa, tailor, shoe repair) (≤10,000 sqft building)
- medical/dental office/clinic (≤10,000 sqft building)
- museum/art gallery (≤10,000 sqft building)
- office (≤10,000 sqft building)
- printing/photocopying shop (≤10,000 sqft building)
- restaurant without drive-thru, ≤2,500 sqft (≤10,000 sqft building)
- retail sales ≤5,000 sqft (≤10,000 sqft building)
- off-street parking/loading
- signs per Article VI
- accessory uses per Section 21-603
- home occupation per Section 21-606
Conditional / special use14
- studio/workshop for artists/artisans (special exception)
- multifamily dwelling (special use permit)
- student dwelling (special use permit)
- townhouse (special use permit)
- church/religious worship (special use permit)
- day care center in church/school building (special use permit)
- hotel/motel/timeshare >10 bedrooms (special use permit)
- laundry/dry cleaning (special use permit)
- lighted athletic field (city-owned) (special use permit)
- school/college/university (special use permit)
- radio/TV broadcasting station (special use permit)
- restaurant >2,500 sqft (special use permit)
- retail >5,000 sqft (special use permit)
- uses in building >10,000 sqft (special use permit)
Accessory1
Prohibited1
Extracted standards
6 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Maximum unrelated persons per dwelling unitDwelling unitOne independent home: its own kitchen, bathroom and entrance.3 persons
No more than three unrelated persons; or four unrelated persons in a single-family detached dwelling if the provisions of section 21-619 et seq. are met.
- Maximum townhouseTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot. density8 du/acdu/acreDwelling units per acre — the number of homes allowed on each acre of land.
The density of a townhouse development shall not exceed eight townhouses per net acre.
- Minimum townhouseTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot. 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.
- Rear yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. for townhouseTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot.25 ft
Each townhouse shall have a rear yard of not less than 25 feet.
- Side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. for end townhouseTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot.5 ft
Each townhouse located at the end of a group of townhouses shall have a side yard of at least five feet.
- Transitional screening width when adjacent to residential districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.10 ft
A landscaped open space 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.
From the ordinance
This district is established to allow a mixture of office, commercial and residential uses in areas that are designated by the Comprehensive Plan as Mixed Use land use, and which are located outside of the Center City area.