The B-2 district is designed to provide for a concentration of a limited range of commercial uses that serve the residents of the area to which the public requires direct and frequent access. To enhance the convenience of shoppers, this district has direct access to a major street or highway. All goods and articles for sale are kept in an enclosed area. The manufacture, compounding, processing or treatment of products is prohibited in this district. This district is also designed to exclude uses and operations that are objectional because of odor, dust, smoke, noise, litter or similar causes.

(Code 1990, § 14-45A; Ord. of 3-23-2004(4))

Permitted uses in a B-2 district are as follows:

(1)

Accessory structures, excluding storage containers unless screened or shielded from view from any road or adjoining property.

(2)

Auctions.

(3)

Bakeries.

(4)

Barbershops and beauty shops, massage therapy.

(5)

Cabinet-making furniture and upholstery shops.

(6)

Car washes.

(7)

Childcare centers.

(8)

Churches, libraries.

(9)

Convenience stores.

(10)

Drugstores.

(11)

Dry cleaners/laundries.

(12)

Event facilities.

(13)

Exercise facilities.

(14)

Financial services.

(15)

Fire and rescue stations.

(16)

General stores.

(17)

Gift shops.

(18)

Government offices/post offices.

(19)

Home appliance/hardware stores.

(20)

Kennels, commercial (no outdoor confinement).

(21)

Laundromats.

(22)

Liquor stores.

(23)

Lumber and building supply (storage under cover).

(24)

Office buildings.

(25)

Plumbing/electrical supply (storage under cover).

(26)

Recreation centers.

(27)

Retail farm and garden centers.

(28)

Retail food stores or supermarkets.

(29)

Retail stores.

(30)

Tanning salons.

(31)

Truck, automobile, trailer, and equipment rental as an accessory to an existing establishment.

(32)

Vehicle painting, upholstering, repairing, rebuilding and reconditioning.

(33)

Veterinary hospitals (no outdoor confinement).

(34)

Wearing apparel stores.

(Code 1990, § 14-45B; Ord. of 3-23-2004(4); Ord. No. 10-09, 10-13-2010; Ord. No. 12-02, 11-13-2012; Ord. No. 16-05, 4-12-2016; Ord. No. 21-11, 2-8-2022; Ord. No. 22-11, 12-13-2022)

Permitted uses with conditional use permit in a B-2 district are as follows:

(1)

Reserved.

(2)

Childcare.

(3)

Hotels, motels.

(4)

Kennels, commercial (with any outdoor confinement).

(5)

Mini storage warehouses.

(6)

Printing businesses.

(7)

Public utilities.

(8)

Radio, TV, cable stations and accessories.

(9)

Radio stations, television stations and cable TV facilities, communication station an/or tower or related facilities; subject to provisions of section 74-731 et seq.

(10)

Restaurants.

(11)

Restaurants, drive-in.

(12)

Service stations (major repair under cover).

(13)

Shopping centers, subject to provisions of section 74-711 et seq.

(14)

Veterinary hospitals (with any outdoor confinement).

(Code 1990, § 14-45C; Ord. of 3-23-2004(4); Ord. No. 08-02, § 8., 5-13-2008(2); Ord. No. 10-09, 10-13-2010)

(a)

In B-2 areas served by central water and central sewer, there are no area requirements.

(b)

In areas not served by central water and central sewer, the minimum area shall be that area required by the health official for the safe installation and operation of an individual sewage treatment and wastewater disposal system and water supply well.

(Code 1990, § 14-45D; Ord. of 7-14-1999)

(a)

Front setback. No structures in a B-2 district shall be located closer to the centerline of any road right-of-way on any designated primary highway than one hundred (100) feet, or sixty (60) feet from the centerline of any secondary road right-of-way or street right-of-way for any private road, except that temporary signs advertising sale or rent of premises may be erected up to the property line. This shall be known as the setback line.

(b)

Side. The minimum side yard setback for the main structure shall be fifteen (15) feet. The minimum side yard setback for accessory structures under the size requiring a building permit shall be five (5) feet. The minimum side yard setback for all other accessory structures shall be fifteen (15) feet.

(c)

Rear. The minimum rear yard for the main structure shall be thirty-five (35) feet. The minimum rear yard setback for accessory structures under the size requiring a building permit shall be five (5) feet. The minimum rear yard setback for all other accessory structures shall be fifteen (15) feet.

(Code 1990, § 14-45E; Ord. of 7-14-1999; Ord. of 1-10-2006; Ord. No. 18-04, 5-14-2019; Ord. No. 21-11, 2-8-2022)

The minimum lot primary, secondary and access road frontage in a B-2 district shall be at least eighty percent (80%) of the lot width determined at the building setback line.

(Code 1990, § 14-45F; Ord. of 7-14-1999; Ord. No. 18-04, 5-14-2019)

During hours of darkness when business establishments in a B-2 district are in operation, parking areas, sidewalks and building entrance areas on the premises shall be lighted to allow safe ingress and egress. No such lighting shall be directed in a manner which illuminates adjoining residential premises.

(Code 1990, § 14-45G)

Except for emergency activities of physicians, dentists, fire and rescue, no business establishment in a B-2 district shall be open for business between the hours of 12:00 midnight and 6:00 a.m.

(Code 1990, § 14-45I)

There shall be no storage outside a building used by a business establishment in a B-2 district visible from a state highway. No public address system or devices for reproducing or amplifying voices or music shall be audible beyond the business district.

(Code 1990, § 14-45J; Ord. No. 08-02, § 8., 5-13-2008(2))

Buildings in a B-2 district may be erected to a maximum height of thirty-five (35) feet. For purposes of this section:

(1)

Any building may be erected to a height of sixty (60) feet from grade, provided that the required front, side and rear yards shall be increased by one (1) foot for each foot in height over thirty-five (35) feet.

(2)

Church spires, belfries, cupolas, chimneys, flues, flagpoles, television antennas, radio aerials, and bona fide farm buildings or structures as defined by Code of Virginia, § 36-97, as that section may from time to time be amended and/or recodified are exempt from the height requirement contained herein.

(Code 1990, § 14-45K; Ord. No. 18-04, 5-14-2019)

Distribution lines and service connections in a B-2 district shall be installed underground in accordance with the provisions of the tariff of the utility then on file with the state corporation commission; however, a lot which abuts an existing major street or highway where overhead electric or telephone distribution lines have theretofore been installed on any portion which is abutted by the lot may be supplied with electric and telephone service from such overhead lines, but the service connections from such overhead lines shall be installed underground.

(Code 1990, § 14-45M; Ord. No. 18-04, 5-14-2019)

Editor's note— Ord. No. 18-04, adopted May 14, 2019, repealed former § 74-471 and renumbered former §§ 74-472, utilities, and 74-473, off-street parking, as §§ 74-471 and 74-472. The former § 74-471 pertained to limitations on access, and derived from Code 1990, § 14-45L.

(a)

There shall be provided at the time of erection of any main building in a B-2 district or at the time any main building is enlarged or structurally altered and converted to another use, adequate minimum off-street parking spaces.

(b)

Each business shall provide one (1) parking space per two hundred (200) square feet of floor area.

(c)

All parking spaces required in this section shall be located on the same lot with the building or use served.

(d)

All parking spaces must be surfaced with asphalt or concrete.

(e)

All parking facilities shall be drained to eliminate standing water and prevent damage to abutting property and/or public streets and surfaced with erosion-resistant materials as specified in section 34-31 et seq.

(Code 1990, § 14-45N; Ord. No. 18-04, 5-14-2019)

Note— See editor's note at § 74-471.