Prince William County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Sec. 32-403.34 (development standards), Sec. 32-403.31 (uses), Sec. 32-403.35 (setbacks)
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right77
- Alarm systems operations, offices
- Ambulance service, commercial
- Ambulance service maintenance facility
- Animal shelter
- Assembly (non-HAZMAT)
- Bakery, industrial
- Blacksmith, welding or machine shop
- Boat building and repair yard
- Boat sales, rental or lease, storage, service, or repair
- Brewery and bottling facility
- Building materials sales yard
- Catalog sales, contractor, tradesman or industrial equipment (with or without showroom)
- Coal, wood and lumber yards
- Cold storage
- Commercial bus terminal
- Commercial parking
- Company vehicle service facility
- Computer and network services
- Contractor or tradesman's shop (limited); no trash or refuse removal service
- Contractor or tradesman's shop (unlimited); no trash or refuse removal service
- Data Center within the Data Center Opportunity Zone Overlay District
- Distillery
- Distribution and fulfillment center
- Dry cleaning/garment processing plant, wholesale facility
- Dry cleaning/garment processing facility retail, greater than 3,000 square feet
- Electronic component, assembly and repair
- Equipment and material storage yard; no trash or refuse removal service
- Farmer's market
- Feed and grain storage and distribution center
- Furniture repair, dipping and stripping, upholstery
- Greenhouse or nursery (wholesale) (not more than 20 percent garden center uses)
- Janitorial service
- Kennel, commercial
- Laundry, industrial
- Marble/tile processing, cutting and polishing
- Manufacturing and fabrication of signs
- Manufacturing, candy/confectioners
- Manufacturing, cosmetics and perfume
- Manufacturing, electronic components
- Manufacturing, fabricated metal
- Manufacturing, musical instruments and toys
- Manufacturing, pharmaceuticals (non-HAZMAT process)
- Manufacturing, pottery, ceramics (using only previously pulverized clay and kiln fired only by electricity or gas)
- Motor vehicle auction (wholesale)
- Motor vehicle impoundment yard
- Motor vehicle parts, with service
- Motor vehicle repair
- Motor vehicle sales, rental or lease (recreational)
- Motor vehicle sales, rental or lease (unlimited)
- Motor vehicle service
- Motor vehicle storage lot
- Moving and storage
- Neighborhood retail and fulfillment center
- Office
- Parking, fleet (in accordance with the provisions of county code section 32-400.27)
- Publishing and printing
- Radio or TV broadcasting station
- Railroad freight depot
- Railroad passenger station
- Railroad yard
- Recording studio
- Recyclable materials separation facility
- Recycling collection points, subject to the standards in section 32-250.84
- Research and development (non-HAZMAT)
- Self-storage center, in accordance with the provisions of section 32-400.14
- Solar energy facility
- Taxi or limousine operations and service facility
- Tool and equipment rental, service and repair (heavy and minor)
- Trade, technical or vocational school
- Trailer sales (retail), lease, storage, repair and maintenance
- Trash and refuse removal service (local only)
- Truck terminal
- Truck wash
- Veterinary hospital
- Warehouse (non-HAZMAT)
- Waterfront and maritime uses
- Wholesaling (non-HAZMAT)
Conditional / special use24
- Asphalt/concrete plant
- Assembly (HAZMAT)
- Data Center outside the Data Center Opportunity Zone Overlay District
- Day care center
- Extraction of mineral resources and related industrial wholesaling operations, including operation of crushers and sorting equipment customarily accessory thereto
- Heliport
- Manufacturing and processing, other (HAZMAT or non-HAZMAT)
- Marina
- Mobile home and office sales, lease or service
- Motor vehicle fuel station
- Motor vehicle graveyard
- Motor vehicle sales secondary to motor vehicle repair
- Racetrack (motorized vehicles)
- Range, shooting (indoor or outdoor)
- Recycling plant
- Research and development (HAZMAT)
- Sawmill
- Stadium, arena, or amphitheater, indoor or outdoor
- Storage facility (HAZMAT)
- Testing/experimental laboratories (HAZMAT)
- Truck stop, with related facilities
- Warehouse (HAZMAT)
- Water transportation facility
- Wholesaling (HAZMAT)
Accessory7
- Locksmith
- Motor vehicle fuel station (limited to vehicles associated with the primary business or use)
- Recreation facility, commercial (indoor)
- Quick service food store
- Restaurant
- Restaurant, carry-out
- Retail store
Extracted standards
4 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. retail sales limit20 pct
Except for retail dry cleaning/garment processing facilities greater than 3,000 square feet, no more than 20 percent of the gross floor area devoted to any use may be used for accessory retail sales of products made or stored on the premises.
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from agriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them. or residential districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.50 ft
When the side or rear of a lot within a M/T District abuts an agricultural or residential district, a minimum setback of 50 feet from the common property line shall be required for all structures and uses
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from commercial or office districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.20 ft
When the side or rear of a lot within a M/T District abuts a commercial or office district, a minimum setback of 20 feet from the common property line shall be required for all structures and uses
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from street right-of-way20 ft
At least 20 feet from all street rights-of-way
From the ordinance
There shall be no minimum lot size. The maximum lot coverage shall be 85 percent, with a required minimum open space area of 15 percent. The maximum floor area ratio (FAR) shall be 0.75. The maximum height for all structures shall be 75 feet.