This district is for those areas of the County, adjacent to residential and/or agricultural areas, where it is in the public interest to establish retail and service businesses of a type which are ordinarily and necessarily convenient to and designed primarily to serve adjacent residential uses and which are not characterized either by trucking other than stocking and delivery of light retail goods, or by any nuisance factors other than those occasioned by incidental light and noise of congregation of people and passenger vehicles. This includes such uses as retail convenience stores, banks, business and professional offices and service stations.

In Business District B-C, structures to be erected or land to be used shall be for one (1) or more of the following retail sales and/or service uses.

The following uses shall be permitted by right:

Civic Uses

Amusements, public

Cultural services

Public uses

Commercial Uses

Bakeries

Bed and breakfasts

Brewpub

Butcher shops

Child day centers

Daycare centers

Financial institutions

Funeral homes

Garden center

Gas stations

Greenhouses, commercial

Grocery stores

Medical clinics

Offices

Parking facilities

Personal service establishments

Pharmacies

Restaurants, fast food

Restaurants, general

Restaurants, small

Retail stores, general

Retail stores, neighborhood convenience

Retail stores, specialty

Studios, fine arts

Taxidermists

Vending carts

Miscellaneous Uses

Accessory uses

Mobile food unit

Small scale solar generation facility

Utilities, minor

(Ord. 9-17-08; Ord. 10-21-09; Ord. 11-3-10; Ord. 11-20-12; Ord. of 09-15-2021 (1); Ord. of 08-17-2022 (1); Ord. No. 24-08, § 1, 3-19-2025; Ord. of 09-17-2025(3), § 1)

The following uses shall be permitted by special use permit only:

Civic Uses

Educational facilities

Religious assembly

Sheltered care facilities

Commercial Uses

Amusements, commercial

Auction houses

Automobile repair service establishments

Car washes

Communications service

Dance halls

Guidance services

Hotels

Kennels, commercial

Landscaping materials supply

Laundromats

Laundries

Lodges

Microbreweries

Personal improvement services

Professional schools

Self-storage facilities

Veterinary offices

Miscellaneous Uses

Outdoor gatherings

Minor scale solar generation facility

Telecommunication facilities

Utilities, major

Utility scale solar generation facility

Residential Uses

Dormitories

(Ord. 9-17-08; Ord. 10-21-09; Ord. 11-3-10; Ord. 11-20-12; Ord. of 09-15-2021 (1); Ord. of 08-17-2022 (1); Ord. of 03-20-2024 (2))

All buildings, structures and uses in the B-C District shall be subject to the provisions of Article 23: Site Development Plans of this Code.

(Ord. 12-16-15)

None, except for permitted uses utilizing individual sewerage disposal system. The required area for any such use shall be approved by the administrator who may consult with the health official.

(A)

Buildings shall be located not less than fifty feet (50') from any public right-of-way. This shall be known as the "setback line." All parking lots shall be located not less than twenty-five feet (25') from any public right-of-way.

(B)

A variation to the setback regulations may be granted by the Planning Commission for projects in a designated growth area that meet new urban/neo-traditional planning principles, and further the objectives and goals set forth in the Comprehensive Plan. Appeals must be received in writing within thirty (30) days of the variation decision, and will then be forwarded to the Board of Supervisors for a final determination.

(Ord. 5-4-11)

The minimum yard requirements for permitted uses adjoining or adjacent to a residential or agricultural district shall be fifty feet (50'). All parking lots and accessory uses shall be located not less than twenty-five feet (25') from any residential or agricultural district.

Buildings may be erected up to thirty-five feet (35') in height from grade, except that:

(A)

Any building otherwise permitted may be erected to a height of forty-five feet (45') feet from grade and a public or semi-public building such as a school, place of worship, or library may be erected to a height of sixty feet (60') from grade; provided, in any such case, that required setback and side and rear yards each shall be increased one foot (1') for each foot in height over thirty-five feet (35').

(B)

Spires, belfries, cupolas, monuments, water towers, chimneys, flues, flagpoles, television antennas, and radio aerials are exempt. Parapet walls may be up to four feet (4') above the height of the building on which the walls rest.

Off-street parking shall conform with Article 26: Off-Street Parking and Loading Spaces of this chapter.

Sign regulations shall conform to Article 15 of this chapter.

Uses and structures which are customarily accessory and clearly incidental shall be permitted, provided establishment of the same shall not be permitted until construction has commenced on the principal building or the principal use has been established.

Sidewalks that comply with the most recent VDOT specifications shall be required on both sides of all roadways, public and private.

(Ord. 5-4-11)