B-2
Dimensional standards
Lot
Density
Height & bulk
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right49
- Home occupations (including homeshares)
- Accessory uses
- Automobile and truck sales and service establishments and rental agencies
- Banks and financial institutions (not alternative)
- Bowling alleys
- Building supplies and service with storage under cover
- Car washes
- Churches
- Contractors' establishments, offices and display rooms
- Convenience and service establishments (barber shops, beauty parlors, tailors, automatic self-service laundries)
- Day nursery or day care center
- Fire stations and rescue squad stations
- Funeral homes, and crematories when accessory to a funeral home
- Government offices
- Bed and Breakfast Inns, Bed and Breakfast Homestays, Hotels and motels
- Institutions of higher education
- Laundry, cleaning, and dyeing works (no combustible solvent)
- Library
- Machinery sales and service
- Museums and art galleries
- Newspaper office buildings
- Office, business and professional
- Parking garages and parking lots
- Pet shops
- Philanthropic and charitable institutions
- Plant nurseries and greenhouses
- Artisan manufacturing (<=7,500 sq ft)
- Public utilities
- Radio and television broadcasting stations
- Repair services or businesses
- Restaurants
- Retail stores
- Schools
- Service stations (repair in enclosed building)
- Outdoor storage of materials and supplies and display of merchandise (incidental)
- Theaters, motion picture theaters, and assembly halls
- Veterinary hospitals
- Wholesale businesses (screened loading)
- Off-Street Parking Areas (for permitted and conditional uses in B-2 and access drives for other districts)
- Signs (in accordance with Section 18-8)
- Commercial Records Center
- Print Shops
- Physical fitness or martial arts establishments
- Assembling establishments (<=10 employees, no manufacturing)
- Bakery
- Entertainment Establishments (>=200 ft from residential)
- Home Improvement Donation Center
- Microdistillery, microbrewery, nanobrewery, or winery
- Wireless facilities (eligible for administrative review)
Conditional / special use26
- Mini-warehouses/mini-storage
- Adult bookstores, adult motion picture theaters, adult mini-motion picture theaters
- Miniature golf courses and golf driving ranges
- Entertainment Establishments (<200 ft from residential or outdoor)
- Nursing and rest homes, assisted living facilities
- Pool and billiard rooms
- Private clubs and lodges
- Roller Rinks
- Tourist homes
- Kennels
- Pet Daycare Center
- Single family detached dwellings
- Bus terminals
- Wireless facilities (not eligible for administrative review)
- Group Home and assisted living facility (<=8 persons)
- Extended stay lodging
- Multifamily and Condominium dwellings
- Motor vehicle painting, upholstering, body and fender work (replacing nonconforming)
- Alternative financial institutions
- Crematories
- Hookah establishment
- Accessory structure as subordinate dwelling unit for domestic employee
- Arenas, Amphitheaters, Stadiums
- Home occupations (in accordance with 18-19-2.6)
- Artisan manufacturing (>=7,501 sq ft) or vertical farming in container
- Solar energy systems (principal use)
Accessory1
Extracted standards
37 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 increased yards55 ft
A building may be erected up to 55 feet provided that the required side and rear yards are increased by one foot for each foot of building height over 35 feet.
Other
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for canopies over gasoline pumps20 ft
there shall be a 20-foot setback required from any street or highway
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for canopies at angle less than 45 degrees10 ft
Where the above angle is less than 45 degrees, there shall be a ten-foot setback.
- Corner side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. minimum35 ft
For all uses: 35 feet or more.
- Density adjustment for LEED certified units
except where dwelling units are certified by the standards outlined in the United States Green Building Council LEED® for Homes program; and, with each dwelling unit having no more than two bedrooms, the following Density Adjustment shall be applied: (table)
- Fire wall separation
Attached dwellings shall be separated by a wall meeting fire protection requirements as set forth in the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code
- Ground floor dwelling unitsDwelling unitOne independent home: its own kitchen, bathroom and entrance. restriction
No dwelling units shall be located on the ground floor unless... (conditions)
- Maximum number of animals25 animals
limited to a maximum of 25 animals at any one time.
- Maximum bedrooms per dwelling2 bedrooms
No dwellings shall have more than two bedrooms
- Minimum square feetsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. of total project area per dwelling unitDwelling unitOne independent home: its own kitchen, bathroom and entrance.3,500 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Density shall not exceed one dwelling unit for each 3,500 square feet of the Total Project Area
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. of storage section25 ft
The maximum height of the storage section of a mini-warehouse/mini-storage building shall be 25 feet.
- Maximum total storage area7,500 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
The maximum total storage area in a mini-warehouse/mini-storage building shall be 7,500 square feet.
- Maximum dwelling unitsDwelling unitOne independent home: its own kitchen, bathroom and entrance. per building8 units
A maximum of eight dwelling units per building
- Minimum paved radius of cul-de-sacs40 ft
The paved radius of all cul-de-sacs shall be at least 40 feet.
- Minimum distance from residential districts and sensitive uses500 ft
no such uses shall be permitted within 500 feet of any residentially zoned district or the nearest property line of any church, school, library, or playground.
- Minimum distance from residential districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.500 ft
provided no such use is situated within 500 feet of any residential district
- Minimum distance from residential districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.500 ft
provided no such use is situated within 500 feet of any residential district
- Minimum fence heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. when adjacent to residential6 ft
When a mini-warehouse/mini-storage is built adjacent to or within 100 feet of a lot in a residential district without an intervening street, a solid wall or fence at least six feet in height...
- Minimum floor areaMinimum floor areaThe smallest dwelling the district permits, in square feet of living space. for two or more bedrooms900 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
900 square feet for two or more bedrooms
- Minimum floor areaMinimum floor areaThe smallest dwelling the district permits, in square feet of living space. for efficiency and one bedroom units700 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
700 square feet for efficiency and one bedroom units
- Minimum lot widthLot widthHow wide a lot must be, usually measured at the front setback line. for townhousesTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot.24 ft
the minimum lot width may be reduced down to 24 feet per unit.
- Minimum pavement width for private street20 ft
a 20-foot minimum pavement width private street
- Minimum separation between adult uses1,000 ft
no two such uses shall be permitted within 1,000 feet of each other
- Minimum sidewalk width4 ft
A sidewalk four feet in width on at least one side of the street
- Operating hours
No such uses shall be open for business later than 11:00 p.m. or earlier than 9:00 a.m.
- Outdoor animal hours
no animals are kept outdoors between the hours of 7:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.
- Minimum rear yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates.25 ft
Each main structure shall have a rear yard of at least 25 feet
- Minimum rear yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. when abutting residential50 ft
except when such use abuts a residential district in which case there shall be a minimum rear yard of 50 feet
- Minimum rear yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. for multifamilyMultifamily dwellingA building of four or more dwelling units. Where zoning is most restrictive. abutting LR or MR residential75 ft
When a multifamily structure abuts a LR or MR residential district in which case there shall be a rear yard minimum of 75 feet.
- Side and rear yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. exception within commercial center
No side or rear yard shall be required along the common shared property line of buildings within the same commercial center provided the following conditions are met...
- Minimum side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. for single family and two-family dwellings10 ft
The minimum width for each side yard for single family detached dwellings and two-family dwellings shall be ten feet
- Minimum side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. for townhousesTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot.10 ft
The minimum width of each side yard for townhouse dwellings shall be ten feet
- Minimum side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. for townhousesTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot. abutting LR or MR residential25 ft
except that townhouse dwellings abutting a LR or MR Residential District in which case a 25-foot minimum side yard is required.
- Minimum side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. for multifamilyMultifamily dwellingA building of four or more dwelling units. Where zoning is most restrictive. structures15 ft
The minimum width of each side yard for a multifamily structure shall be 15 feet
- Minimum side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. for multifamilyMultifamily dwellingA building of four or more dwelling units. Where zoning is most restrictive. abutting LR or MR residential50 ft
except when abutting a LR or MR Residential District in which case a 50-foot minimum side yard is required.
- Minimum side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. for other permitted or conditionalConditional useAllowed only after a discretionary approval — usually a public hearing and a board vote. uses10 ft
The minimum width of each side yard for a main structure for other permitted or conditional uses shall be ten feet
- Minimum side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. for other uses abutting residential25 ft
except that when such use abuts a residential district, there shall be a side yard of 25 feet
From the ordinance
The minimum lot area for uses shall be as follows: Single family detached dwellings - 10,000 square feet per unit.