Certain types of commercial activities either require waterfront
locations or are enhanced by such locations. Such activities usually
have special requirements for physical design, layout, and supporting
facilities and services which may be incompatible with other uses.
The Business-1 District is intended to accommodate these uses with
special needs. As a general rule, uses which do not require waterfront
location, or which do not complement uses requiring waterfront location,
are not permitted in the B-1 District. District regulations are designed
to afford adequate protection to the natural environment.
The following uses shall be permitted subject to all other requirements
of this chapter as a matter of right in the Business-1 District (B-1):
B.
Agriculture, including the growing of fruit, forest, field, vegetable
crops and, for personal and home occupation uses only, fowl and animal
handling and containment, excluding hogs; grain dryers, feeder lots,
dairy barns, agricultural lagoons, poultry and hog houses and other
structures or areas involving the concentrated handling or containment
of animals and fowl are excluded.
D.
Aquaculture.
E.
Bait and tackle shops, boat and motor sales, and other retail sales
catering to marine trade.
F.
Boat ramps.
G.
Boats-for-hire.
H.
Boatyards, boat building and boat repairs.
I.
Campgrounds.
J.
Cruise and tourist ship dockage.
L.
Docks, commercial and private.
M.
Fishing piers.
N.
Forestry.
O.
Grain storage and transport facilities.
Q.
Hotels, motels and tourist homes.
R.
Local, state and federal water-based facilities.
S.
Marinas and yacht clubs.
T.
Marine railways.
U.
Marine salvage.
V.
Recycling location (dropoff) with a total capacity of 10 cubic yards
or less.
W.
Restaurants.
X.
Retail marine fuel sales.
Y.
Seafood sales.
Z.
Shellfish and finfish processing, packing and storage facilities.
AA.
Shops offering such services as marine welding, sheet metal fabrication,
small engine repair, and sail mending.
BB.
Signs, subject to Article 13.
CC.
Single-family residences for occupancy by business owner or tenant.
DD.
Utility use, minor.
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EE.
Water-powered facilities such as grist mills.
FF.
Watercraft clubs and schools.
GG.
Wood landings.
A.
In order to ensure that special uses will not harm the natural environment,
no zoning permit shall be issued therefor unless and until all other
required permits are first obtained from environmental protection
agencies, including the Mathews County Wetlands Zoning Board, the
Virginia Marine Resources Commission, the State Water Control Board,
the Virginia Department of Health, the United States Army Corps of
Engineers, and any other applicable agency.
B.
The following uses shall be permitted in the Business-1 District
(B-1) subject to all the other requirements of this chapter, only
upon the obtaining of a conditional use permit from the Board of Supervisors.
(2)
Museums.
(3)
Recycling location (dropoff) with a total capacity in excess
of 10 cubic yards.
(4)
Sewage treatment systems (private) where the subject lot or
parcel shall be located outside the area identified by the Floodplain
Management Ordinance of Mathews County[2] as being subject to inundation by waters of the one-hundred-year
flood event.
(6)
Utility
use, major.
[Added 2-23-2021]
A.
In order to ensure that permitted uses will not harm the natural
environment, no zoning permit shall be issued therefor unless and
until all other required permits are first obtained from environmental
protection agencies, including the Mathews County Wetlands Board,
Virginia Marine Resources Commission, State Water Control Board, State
Department of Health, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and any other
applicable agency.
B.
The Administrator may require landscaping within any established
or required setback area and that sufficient area be provided:
A.
Lot size. The minimum lot area for each principal permitted use shall
be one acre (43,560 square feet).
B.
Setback regulations. Buildings and piers on all public or private
rights-of-way shall be set back 50 feet or more from the edge of the
right-of-way or 75 feet from the center line, whichever is greater.
C.
Frontage and lot width regulations. The minimum frontage for permitted
uses shall be 24 feet on any street or right-of-way and 100 feet at
the setback line.
D.
Yard regulations.
(1)
Side: The minimum side yard for each main building shall be
20 feet, and the total width of the two required side yards shall
be 40 feet or more. The minimum side yard for accessory buildings
and piers shall be five feet.
(2)
Rear: Each main building of a lot bordering on the water and
not requiring on-the-waterfront location shall have a rear yard of
50 feet or more. There is no minimum rear yard requirement for main
buildings requiring on-the-waterfront location for the practical operation
of the permitted activity. There is no minimum yard requirement for
accessory buildings.
A.
Buildings and accessory buildings may be erected up to 50 feet in
height.
B.
Public utility buildings, church spires, belfries, cupolas, monuments,
water towers, chimneys, flues, flagpoles, television antenna, radio
aerials, farm buildings and buildings excluding dwellings, smoke stacks,
observation towers are exempt. Parapet walls may be up to four feet
above the height of the building on which the walls rest.
Sign regulations shall conform to Article 13 of this chapter.
Off-street parking shall be provided in conformance with Article
12 of this chapter.
