Section 6 – B-1 General Commercial District.
Section 6
§ 19.6-72 B-1 General Commercial District.
A. Purpose. The purpose of this district is to provide locations for a variety of commercial and service-related activities within the suburban service area serving larger neighborhoods and the County in general. This district is intended for general application throughout the County. General Commercial Districts are most appropriately found along major arterial thoroughfares which serve large segments of the County’s population. This district provides a wide variety of retail and service-related uses.
B. Permitted uses: [Amended 8-3-2015; 3-29-2016]
| Accessory apartment | |
| Accessory uses/structures | |
| Administrative services | |
| Agricultural services | |
| Amateur radio tower | |
| Antique shops | |
| Automobile dealership | |
| Automobile parts/supply retail | |
| Automobile rental/leasing | |
| Automobile repair services | |
| Bed-and-breakfast | |
| Business or trade school | |
| Business support services | |
| Campground | |
| Car wash | |
| Cemetery | |
| Civic clubs | |
| Clinic | |
| Commercial indoor amusement | |
| Commercial indoor entertainment | |
| Commercial indoor sports and recreation | |
| Commercial outdoor entertainment | |
| Commercial outdoor sports and recreation | |
| Communications services | |
| Community recreation | |
| Construction sales and services | |
| Construction yard | |
| Consumer repair services | |
| Contractor yard | |
| Convenience store | |
| Crisis center | |
| Custom manufacturing | |
| Dance hall | |
| Day-care center | |
| Educational facilities, college/university | |
| Educational facilities, primary/secondary | |
| Equipment sales and rental | |
| Family day-care home | |
| Financial institutions | |
| Funeral services | |
| Garden center | |
| Gasoline station | |
| General office | |
| Guidance services | |
| Home beauty/barber salon | |
| Home occupation, Type I | |
| Home occupation, Type II | |
| Hospital | |
| Hotel/motel/motor lodge | |
| Landscaping and lawn care services | |
| Laundry | |
| Manufactured home sales | |
| Medical office | |
| Microbrewery | |
| Mini warehouse | |
| Park-and-ride facility | |
| Parking facility | |
| Pawnshop | |
| Personal improvement services | |
| Personal services | |
| Post office | |
| Public maintenance and service facility | |
| Public parks and recreational areas | |
| Recreational vehicle sales and service | |
| Religious assembly | |
| Residential human care facility | |
| Restaurant, general/drive-in/fast-food | |
| Retail sales | |
| Safety services, private | |
| Safety services, public | |
| Single-family dwelling | |
| Small Scale or Residential Solar Energy Farm | |
| Studio, fine arts | |
| Surplus sales | |
| Truck stop | |
| Utility services | |
| Veterinary hospital/clinic | |
| Wayside stand | |
| Wireless communications facility |
C. Conditional uses: [Amended 8-3-2015; 3-29-2016]
| Adult entertainment | |
| Automobile graveyard | |
| Brewery | |
| Distillery | |
| Fish hatchery | |
| Flea market | |
| Halfway house | |
| Home for adults | |
| Industrial manufacturing | |
| Kennel, commercial | |
| Laboratories | |
| Multifamily dwelling | |
| Outdoor gathering | |
| Planned unit development | |
| Public assembly | |
| Recycling center | |
| Scrap and salvage services | |
| Stable, commercial | |
| Transfer station | |
| Transportation terminal | |
| Truck terminal | |
| Two-family dwelling | |
| Wind energy system |
D. Site development regulations.
(1) Minimum lot requirements:
(a) Lots not served by public water or sewer:
[1] Area: one acre (43,560) square feet.
[2] Frontage: 100 feet on a publicly owned and maintained street.
(b) Lots served by either public water or sewer:
[1] Area: 15,000 square feet (0.34 acre).
[2] Frontage: 80 feet on a publicly owned and maintained street.
(c) Lots served by both public water and public sewer:
[1] Area: 10,000 square feet (0.23 acre).
[2] Frontage: 80 feet on a publicly owned and maintained street.
(2) Minimum setback requirements:
(a) Principal structure:
[1] Front: 35 feet from property line or 60 feet from center line of public road, whichever is greater.
[2] Side: none; except when adjacent to a residential use, then 10 feet.
[3] Rear: 15 feet.
(b) Accessory structure:
[1] Front: 35 feet from property line or behind the front building line, whichever distance is less.
[2] Side: 15 feet.
[3] Rear: five feet.
(c) Where a lot fronts on more than one street, front yard setbacks shall apply to all streets.
(3) Maximum height of structures:
(a) All structures: 45 feet.
(4) Maximum coverage:
(a) Building coverage: 50%.
(b) Lot coverage: 90%.
