Woodstock, Virginia · District

B-2

Highway Commercial District

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Dimensional standards

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.

Lot

Minimum lot area: 10,000 sq ft
Minimum lot width: 75 ft

Setbacks

Front: 40 ft
Rear: 20 ft
Side: 15 ft

Height & bulk

Maximum height: 45 ft
Maximum lot coverage: 80%

Uses

Permitted by right5

Farm supplies, with storage under cover.
Commercial greenhouses; nurseries.
Churches, schools, police, fire and rescue squad stations and other public uses.
Public utilities, such as poles, lines, distribution transformers, meters, water and sewer lines, booster or relay stations and transformer substations.
Any use permitted in the B-1 central business district, except those uses provided in subsection 90-187(1).

Conditional / special use3

Retail establishments exceeding 50,000 square feet.
Apartments.
Exceptions for height up to 55 feet for non-livable space for lots located outside the area designated as the Town of Woodstock Historic District, subject to special permit approval.

Extracted standards

2 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.

Other

Minimum buffer height when abutting residential4 ft
All property lines in the B-2 highway commercial district abutting a residential district shall be appropriately screened, fenced, walled or enclosed with a suitable enclosure of a minimum height of four feet, unless natural vegetation of wooded areas are used as buffer strips.
Sidewalk width on new street construction5 ft
five-foot sidewalks will be required if a grass strip is to be provided or six-foot sidewalks will be required if no grass strip is to be provided, on both sides of the street on new street construction.

From the ordinance

Minimum lot size 10,000 sq ft. Setback 40 ft from ROW >=50 ft. Side yards 15 ft, rear 20 ft. Max coverage 80%. Max height 45 ft. Buffer 4 ft when abutting residential.
Sec. 90-222 through 90-231

Use details

{
  "dropped_conditions": {
    "accessory_uses": [
      "Off-street parking areas, pursuant to the provisions of section 90-387.",
      "Signs, pursuant to sections 90-384 and 90-385.",
      "Customary accessory uses and buildings, provided they are clearly incidental to the principal use, pursuant to section 90-378."
    ],
    "permitted_uses": [
      "Farm machinery sales and service; provided, that servicing is conducted in buildings.",
      "Businesses for the rental of equipment of all sizes and designs and rental of supplies or any other items, except that no equipment or other items for rental shall be stored outside, not under cover, unless such equipment or other items for rental are appropriately screened, fenced, walled, or enclosed with a suitable enclosure of a minimum of four feet."
    ],
    "conditional_uses": [
      "Carwashes, pursuant to section 90-390, subsection (2).",
      "Wayside stands for display and sale of farm products, pursuant to section 90-390, subsection (5).",
      "Dancehalls, pursuant to section 90-391.",
      "Drive-in restaurants, pursuant to section 90-391.",
      "Gasoline service stations, pursuant to section 90-390, subsection (1).",
      "Cottage apartment or condominium (CAC), pursuant to section 90-393."
    ]
  }
}

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