Prince William County Unincorporated, Virginia · District
B-2
Neighborhood Business District
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right50
- Adult day center
- Assisted living facility
- Barber shop, beautician studio, tanning and toning salon (one set of toning equipment only)
- Bicycle service
- Business school
- Cafeteria/lunchroom/snack bar/automat
- Catering, commercial (off premises)
- Child-care facility
- Commercial artist or photographer's studio
- Computer and network services
- Craft brewery (not to exceed production of 10,000 barrels per year. May or may not be associated with a restaurant)
- Cultural arts center
- Dry cleaning/garment processing facility, retail less than 3,000 square feet
- Dry cleaning pick-up facility
- Event center/meeting hall
- Financial institution
- Garden center
- Greenhouse or nursery
- Household equipment and appliance service
- Institute for special education and training
- Interior design and decorating shop
- Laundromat
- Lawn mower service
- Locksmith
- Medical or dental offices and clinic
- Mortuary, funeral home (except in shopping centers or shopping malls)
- Neighborhood retail and fulfillment center, up to 30,000 square feet in gross floor area
- Nursing and convalescent care facility
- Office
- Office equipment service
- Optical and eye care facility
- Pet store, in accordance with the provisions of section 32-400.24
- Photographic processing laboratory
- Place of religious worship or assembly
- Private school (boarding prohibited)
- Quick service food store
- Recycling collection points, subject to the standards in section 32-250.84
- Religious institution
- Restaurant
- Restaurant, carry-out
- Retail store
- School of special instruction
- Shoe repair
- Shopping center A (See Part 100)
- Tailor; seamstress shop
- Theater (indoor)
- Tool and equipment rental (minor)
- Travel agency
- Veterinary hospital
- Wedding chapel (except in shopping centers or shopping malls)
Conditional / special use16
- Boarding/kenneling of pets accessory to a pet store
- Car wash (manned or self-service)
- Continuing care retirement community
- Catering, commercial (on or off premise)
- Donated materials collection center
- 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
- Crematory, secondary to a funeral home
- Farmer's market
- Marina
- Motor vehicle fuel station, retail
- Mixed-use building
- Neighborhood retail and fulfillment center, greater than 30,000 square feet in gross floor area, in accordance with county code section 32-400.27
- Pet care facility, in accordance with the provisions of section 32-400.24
- Recreation facility, commercial (indoor or outdoor)
- Shopping center B (see Part 100)
Accessory2
- Medical or dental laboratory, secondary to medical or dental clinic
- Live entertainment in accordance with the provisions of section 32-400.15
Extracted standards
4 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Maximum aggregate non-residential floor area120,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
The aggregate non-residential uses shall not exceed 120,000 gross square feet
- Maximum districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2. size15 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
The maximum district size shall be 15 acres.
- Maximum single use floor area (except grocery)12,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
with no single use larger than 12,000 gross square feet, except for grocery stores.
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. when abutting agriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them./residential25 ft
a minimum setback of 25 feet from the common property line for all structures and uses shall be required when the side or rear of a lot within a B-2 District abuts an agricultural or residential district.
From the ordinance
The B-2 District is intended to implement the neighborhood commercial land use classification... Development standards: max lot coverage 80%, max FAR 0.30, max height 45 ft, setbacks 20 ft from street ROW, 25 ft from ag/residential.
Use details
{
"dropped_conditions": {
"conditional_uses": [
"Any permitted use greater than 12,000 square feet of floor area. The requirement for a Special Use Permit shall not apply to grocery stores."
]
}
}