Buena Vista, Virginia · District
B-1
General Business District B-1
Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
- Minimum landscaping
- 3%
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right39
- Department stores, variety stores, specialty shops, discount shops, and appliance stores
- Bakeries
- Laundries, dry cleaning shops and clothes dyeing establishments
- One- or two-family dwellings; existing on the effective date of this section and dwelling units (apartments and efficiencies) in a building the first floor of which building is used for another permitted nonresidential use
- Retail stores and shops
- Theaters, assembly halls, playhouses and dinner theaters
- Hotels
- Banks and loan and finance offices, including drive-in types
- Churches and other places of worship, and church school buildings
- Libraries
- Hospitals as defined in 302.82
- Funeral home and/or mortuary
- Automobile service stations and public garages (with major repair under cover)
- Clubs and lodges
- Automobile sales
- Lumber and building supply (with storage under cover)
- Plumbing and electrical supply (with storage under cover)
- Carpenter, electrical, plumbing, heating, appliance, bicycle, watch and shoe repair, painting, publishing, lithographing, upholstering, gunsmith or similar shops
- Public utilities
- Public service and storage buildings
- Restaurants including dairy product stores and soda fountains, and drive-in restaurants
- Newspaper offices and printing shops
- Business and professional offices
- Greenhouses
- Police, fire and rescue squad stations
- Post offices
- Bus stations and taxi stands
- Radio and television broadcasting studios
- Public buildings and properties of a cultural, administrative, or service type
- Individual residential uses associated with a permitted use such as the residence of an entrepreneur, but not including subdivisions and multifamily complexes
- Parking garages and parking lots
- Business and vocational schools
- Off-street parking as required by this ordinance
- Signs as provided in article 7
- Museums
- Picture frame manufacturing and assembling
- Bed and breakfast Homestays and Inns
- Karate, aerobic, dance, weight training, etc.
- Child care centers and family day care homes
Conditional / special use14
- Wholesale and processing not objectionable because of dust, noise, or odors
- Public billiard parlors and pool rooms, bowling alleys, dance halls, and similar forms of public amusement
- Commercial radio, television, and communication towers along with related buildings and equipment
- Athletic fields, stadiums, and arenas
- Beverage manufacturing, bottling or distribution stations and food processing, packaging, or distribution stations
- Circuses, carnivals, fairs, and sideshows
- Drive-in theaters
- Livestock market and sales pavilions
- Overnight recreational vehicle park
- Shooting range or gallery
- Wholesale business, storage or warehouse
- Apartments in existing structures
- Kennels and animal hospitals
- Swimming pools, skating rinks, golf driving ranges, miniature golf courses, or similar recreational use or facility
Accessory7
- Living quarters in the main building of persons employed on the premises
- Private parking garage
- Temporary office or storage building for use during construction
- Signs
- Parking
- Existing structures to affix antennas
- Manufacture of goods to be sold as retail on site
Extracted standards
4 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Drive-in theater setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from residential districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.200 ft
Drive-in theaters provided all parts of such drive-in shall be distant at least two hundred (200) feet from any residential district
- KennelKennelBoarding or breeding animals above the number kept as household pets. setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from residential lot200 ft
Kennels and animal hospitals provided that any structure or premises used for such purposes shall be located at least two hundred (200) feet from any residential lot
- Landscaping heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. near intersection3 ft
Landscaping will be restricted to a height of three feet within 50 feet of the intersection of two roads.
- Wholesale business setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from residential districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.50 ft
Wholesale business, storage or warehouse provided that any such use shall be distant at least 50 feet from any residential district
From the ordinance
Within the General Business District B-1 the following uses are permitted: ...