Portsmouth, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 40.2-217(10)(d)

Dimensional standards

Extracted standards

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

Other

  • A hotel or motel, full service shall have its principal frontage, access, and orientation directly on an arterial street or collector street unless it is served by an interior private access road.

  • Maximum additional gross floor area for eating establishments20 pct

    In addition to the accessory uses allowed in Sec. 40.2-217(I) Accessory Use-Standards, up to an additional 20 percent of the gross floor area of a hotel or motel, full service may be devoted to eating establishments as an accessory use.

  • Maximum gross floor area for incidental uses15 pct

    Up to 15 percent of the gross floor area of a hotel or motel may be in nonliving-quarter incidental uses (accessory uses), including management/employee offices, meeting rooms, banquet halls, retail services (such as newsstands and gift shops), and similar uses, provided any incidental business is conducted primarily to service guests, and there is no entrance to such places of business except from the inside of the building.

  • Maximum individual stay30 days

    No individual stay shall extend for a period greater than 30 days in a 60-day period.

  • Vehicular access from an interior residential street is prohibited.

From the ordinance

Up to 15 percent of the gross floor area of a hotel or motel may be in nonliving-quarter incidental uses.
Sec. 40.2-217(10)(d)