Windsor, Virginia · District

B-1

General Business District

Dimensional standards

B-1 lot requirementsSTREETFront 40 ftRear 5 ftSide 65 ftMin width 100 ftMIN LOT AREA7,000 sq ftMAX HEIGHT35 ft
Plan view of the district’s stated lot requirements. Solid line: the property line. Dashed: the setback lines the ordinance imposes; a building must stay inside the tinted envelope. Drawn from the figures extracted below — illustrative, not a survey.

Uses

Permitted by right30

Conditional / special use17

  • Communications facilities
  • Television and radio transmitting antennas (if otherwise under 55 feet in height)
  • Athletic fields, stadiums, and arenas
  • Areas and grounds for outdoor events such as circuses, carnivals, fairs, and sideshows
  • Drive-in theaters
  • Recreational vehicle parks
  • Apartments in existing structures
  • Bowling alleys, skating rinks, miniature golf courses, or similar recreational use of facility if located at least 200 feet from any residential lot
  • Single or multifamily dwellings with lot and permit requirements being the same as those in the HDR District
  • Lumber and building supply, plumbing and electrical supply (all with storage under cover or concealed from public view) wholesale or retail sales
  • Automobile painting, upholstering, rebuilding, reconditioning, and body and fender works
  • Individual freestanding retail and wholesale providers (such as apparel, shoe stores, department stores, grocery stores, variety stores, specialty shops (retail), and appliance stores of over 10,000 square feet, which are not a part of a shopping center
  • Shopping centers
  • Business, professional and governmental offices including banks, loan and finance offices, police, fire, and rescue squad stations, post offices of over 10,000 square feet of usable office space, to include a combination of buildings in a unified office park
  • Movie and cultural art theaters, (not to include adult theaters), assembly halls, playhouses, dinner theaters of over 10,000 square feet
  • Hotels, motels and bed-and-breakfast houses of over 10,000 square of rentable area
  • Truck stop(s)

Accessory4

From the ordinance

Minimum lot area: No minimum lot area
B-1 General Business District

Use details

{
  "dropped_conditions": {
    "accessory_uses": [
      "Satellite television antennas or dishes and radio dispatching antennas of under 55 feet in height which shall be placed so as not to encroach upon the setback area for the principal structure on the property; and be placed in the rear or side of a property and not in front of the primary structure; and shall have a distance to all property lines exceeding the maximum height of the antenna"
    ],
    "permitted_uses": [
      "Contractors office for construction, electrical, plumbing, heating, provided all equipment and vehicles shall be completely enclosed either within a building or storage yard such that it not visible to the public",
      "Appliance, bicycle sales and repair, or any other similar shop, provided that business shall be conducted within a completely enclosed building",
      "Repair garages for vehicles (all repairs and storage of vehicles being repaired must be completely enclosed or screened from the public's view)",
      "Automobile sales, (all repairs and storage of cars being repaired that are or will be for sale must be completely enclosed or screened from the public's view)",
      "Mini storage warehouses (must be at least 50 feet from any residence)"
    ],
    "conditional_uses": [
      "Wholesale and processing, provided that the uses are not objectionable because of dust, noise or odors. Storage or warehousing must be a minimum of 50 feet from any residential structure",
      "Public billiard parlors and poolrooms, bowling alleys, dance halls, amusement centers, massage parlors, adult bookstores and adult entertainment establishments, and similar forms of public amusement. All such activities must not be within 250 feet of any residential structure",
      "Kennels and animal hospitals, provided such use is at least 200 feet from any adjoining residential lot"
    ]
  }
}