Virginia Beach, Virginia · District
B-3
B-3 Central Business District
Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
Servicing
- Applies near
- residential or apartmentMultifamily dwellingA building of four or more dwelling units. Where zoning is most restrictive. districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.
- Applies within
- 100 ft
- Geographic extent
- Within 100 feet of adjoining residential or apartmentMultifamily dwellingA building of four or more dwelling units. Where zoning is most restrictive. districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2. without intervening street or alley over 25 feet wide or body of water over 50 feet wide
Uses
Permitted by right27
- Business studios, offices and clinics
- Commercial parking lots, parking garages, parking structures and storage garages
- Day-care centers and child care education centers
- Drugstores, beauty shops and barbershops and other similar personal service establishments
- Dwellings, Attached
- Eating and drinking establishments with drive-through windows, except as specified below
- Eating and drinking establishments without drive-through windows, except as specified below
- Funeral homes
- Furniture repair and upholstering, repair services for radio and television and household appliances other than those with gasoline engines; carpet and linoleum laying; tile setting, sign shops and other small service businesses
- Hotels and motels
- Laboratories and establishments for the production and repair of eye glasses, hearing aids and prosthetic devices
- Laundry and dry cleaning agencies
- Liquor stores, package only
- Medical and dental offices and clinics
- Medical laboratories
- Museums and art galleries
- Newspaper printing and publishing, job and commercial printing
- Off-site parking facilities, subject to the provisions of subsection (d)
- Outdoor cafes
- Outdoor plazas
- Personal service establishments, other than those listed separately
- Public buildings and grounds
- Public utilities offices
- Repair and sales for radio and television and other household appliances and small business machines
- Specialty shops
- Storage garages
- Wind energy conversion systems, roof-mounted, except as provided below
Conditional / special use15
- Assembly uses
- Automobile museums
- Bars or nightclubs
- Colleges and universities, public or private
- Commercial parking garages and storage garages which include car wash, car rental or car detailing services when wholly enclosed within a parking structure and accessory thereto
- Communication towers standard process
- Fiber-optics transmission facilities
- Heliports and helistops
- Hospitals and sanitariums
- Marinas, commercial
- Open-air markets
- Passenger transportation terminals
- Public utility storage or maintenance installations
- Radio and television broadcasting stations
- Satellite wagering facility
Prohibited18
- Bed and breakfast inns
- Bicycle and moped rental establishments
- Boat sales
- Body piercing establishments
- Borrow pits
- Dormitories for marine pilots
- Dwellings, Multi-family
- Eating and drinking establishments without drive-through windows, when not freestanding and incorporated inside a mixed use building, except as otherwise specified in this section
- Greenhouses and plant nurseries
- Group Home
- Home-based wildlife rehabilitation facilities
- Home occupations
- Mobile home sales
- Short-term rental
- Single room occupancy facility
- Tattoo parlors
- Wildlife rehabilitation centers
- Wind energy conversion systems, freestanding, except as provided below
Extracted standards
4 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. when adjacent to A-12 or A-18 ApartmentMultifamily dwellingA building of four or more dwelling units. Where zoning is most restrictive. Districts35 ft
When adjacent to A-12 or A-18 Apartment Districts, the maximum height shall be thirty-five (35) feet.
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. when adjacent to A-24 ApartmentMultifamily dwellingA building of four or more dwelling units. Where zoning is most restrictive. DistrictZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.45 ft
When adjacent to A-24 Apartment District, the maximum height shall be forty-five (45) feet.
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. when adjacent to A-36 ApartmentMultifamily dwellingA building of four or more dwelling units. Where zoning is most restrictive. DistrictZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.120 ft
When adjacent to A-36 Apartment District, the maximum height shall be one hundred twenty (120) feet.
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. when adjacent to residential districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.35 ft
When adjacent to residential district, the maximum height shall be thirty-five (35) feet.
From the ordinance
Where a zoning lot within the B-3 Central Business District ... adjoins the side or rear yard of a zoning lot in a residential or apartment district ... the following maximum height regulations shall apply on that portion of the commercial zoning lot within one hundred (100) feet of the adjoining residential or apartment district.
Use details
{
"dropped_conditions": {
"permitted_uses": [
"Animal hospitals, veterinary establishments, pounds, shelters, commercial kennels, provided all animals shall be kept in soundproofed, air-conditioned buildings",
"Bakeries, confectioneries and delicatessens, provided that products prepared or processed on the premises shall be sold only at retail and only on the premises",
"Public utilities installations and substations provided storage and maintenance facilities shall not be permitted; and provided further that utilities substations, other than individual transformers, shall be surrounded by Category IV screening solid except for entrances and exits; and provided also, transformer vaults for underground utilities and the like shall require only Category I screening, solid except for access openings"
],
"prohibited_uses": [
"Automobile repair garages and small engine repair establishments, provided that all repair work shall be performed within a building",
"Motor vehicle sales and rental, provided such use is wholly enclosed within a building, and further provided that no outdoor use accessory to or in conjunction with the principal use shall be allowed"
],
"conditional_uses": [
"Recreational and amusement facilities of an outdoor nature, which may be partially or temporarily enclosed on a seasonal basis with approval of city council; provided that, in the development of such properties, safeguards are provided to preserve and protect the existing character of adjacent properties, except that riding academies and recreational campgrounds shall not be allowed as a conditional use or otherwise"
]
}
}