Prince William County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Sec. 32-307.20-23
Dimensional standards
Density
Height & bulk
Uses
Permitted by right89
- Adult day center
- Alarm systems operations, office
- Assembly (non-HAZMAT)
- Assisted living facility
- Bakery, industrial
- Barber shop, beautician studio, tanning and toning salon (one set of toning equipment only)
- Bicycle service
- Blacksmith, welding, or machine shop
- Boat building and repair yard
- Brewery and bottling facility
- Business school
- Cafeteria/lunchroom/snack bar/automat
- Catering—Commercial (on or off premises)
- Child-care facility
- Civic club
- College, university, or seminary
- Continued care retirement community
- Commercial artist or photographer's studio
- Computer and network services
- Craft brewery (not to exceed production of 10,000 barrels per year)
- Cultural arts center
- Distillery
- Dry cleaning/garment processing facility, retail less than 3,000 square feet
- Dry cleaning pick-up facility
- Duplex dwelling
- Food Store
- Funeral Home
- Gunsmith shop
- Event Center/meeting hall
- Financial institution
- Furniture repair, dipping and stripping, upholstery
- Garden Center
- Greenhouse or nursery
- Hospital
- Hotel or motel
- Household equipment and appliance service
- Institute for special education and training
- Interior design and decorating shop
- Laundromat
- Lawn mower service
- Locksmith
- Marble/tile processing, cutting, and polishing
- Medical or dental laboratory
- Medical or dental offices and clinic
- Merchant craftsman/artisan shop
- Motor vehicle parts/repairs
- Mixed-use buildings
- Motor vehicle parts, retail
- Multi-family dwellings
- Office
- Office equipment sales, lease, and services
- Optical and eye care facility
- Package, telecommunications, and courier service
- Parking, public
- Pet care facility
- Pet store, in accordance with the provisions of County Code Sec. 32-400.24
- Pet grooming service
- Place of religious worship or assembly
- Private school (boarding prohibited)
- Publishing and printing
- Quick service food store
- Radio or TV broadcasting station
- Recording studio
- Recovery home
- Recycling collection points, subject to standards in County Code section 32-250.84
- Recreation facility, commercial (indoor)
- Religious institution
- Research and development (non-HAZMAT)
- Restaurant
- Restaurant, carry-out
- Retail store, less than 80,000 square feet
- School of special instruction
- Shoe repair
- Shopping Center A, B, C, or D (see part 100)
- Single family-attached dwelling
- Single-family detached dwelling
- Tailor, seamstress shop
- Theater (indoor)
- Theater (outdoor)
- Townhouse
- Tool and equipment rental (minor)
- Trade, conference, or convention center
- Trade, technical or vocational school
- Travel agency
- Veterinary hospital
- Village House
- Warehousing (non-HAZMAT)
- Wholesaling (non-HAZMAT)
- Continuing Care Retirement Community
Conditional / special use19
- Bed and breakfast, subject to the standards of County Code 32-300.15
- Drive-in facility, in accordance with the standards for drive-in facilities specified in county code section 32-400.07
- Drive-through facility, in accordance with the standards for drive-through facilities specified in county code section 32-400.07
- Electronic equipment and component manufacturing, assembly, processing, and distribution
- Heliport
- Manufacturing of musical instruments and toys
- Manufacturing, cosmetics, and perfume
- Manufacturing, pharmaceuticals (non-HAZMAT process)
- Manufacturing, pottery, ceramics (using only previously pulverized clay and kiln fired only by electricity or gas)
- Metal fabrication of signs
- Motor vehicle fuel station, retail
- Parking Commercial, secondary only
- Range, indoor shooting
- Retail store, greater than 80,000 square feet
- Self-storage center, in accordance with the provisions of County Code Section 32-400.16
- Small Urban Data Center outside the Data Center Opportunity Zone Overlay District
- Stadium or arena, indoor or outdoor
- Testing and experimental labs (HAZMAT processes)
- Uses not set forth herein that are designed as interim uses
Accessory7
- Catalog sales, contractor, tradesman, or industrial equipment (without showroom)
- Farmers market
- Live entertainment in accordance with the provisions of County Code section 32-400.15
- Photographic processing laboratory, ancillary to retail store
- Watchman's dwelling
- Attached single-family dwellings on land bays in excess of one acre
- Janitorial Services
Extracted standards
3 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Ground floor non-residential requirement
Except for entrances and lobbies, the ground floor of a mixed-use building shall be limited to non-residential uses in areas designated as commercial in the Master Zoning Plan.
Parking
- Parking prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance. in front setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
Parking shall not be permitted within any front setback area or within the side setback area on a corner lot.
- Parking setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from side and rear lot lines10 ft
All parking shall be set back a minimum of ten feet from the side and rear lot lines.
From the ordinance
Transect 4 allows for a residential density of 8—24 du/acre and non-residential density of up to 0.1.38 FAR.