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B2
Limited Business District
This district is designed to provide a limited range of commercial uses needed to meet the daily
convenience shopping and service needs of residents of a neighborhood or small community. It is
a district wherein all articles for sale, rent, display, storage or hire are kept within an enclosed
building. In addition, the manufacture, compounding, processing or treatment of products is
prohibited in this district. In addition, this district is designed to exclude uses, operations and
products which are objectionable because of odor, dust, smoke, noise, vibration or other similar
causes. In particular, uses which include the sale, repair, service, maintenance or storage of
motor vehicles and accessories thereto are prohibited in this district.
M2 General Industrial District:
The primary purpose of this district is to establish an area where the principal use of land is for
heavy commercial and industrial operations, which may create some nuisance, and which are not
properly associated with nor particularly compatible with residential, institutional and
neighborhood commercial service establishments. The specific intent of this district is to:
(a) Encourage the construction of and the continued use of the land for heavy commercial and
industrial purposes.
(b) Prohibit residential and neighborhood commercial use of the land and to prohibit any other
use which would substantially interfere with the development, continuation or expansion of
commercial and industrial uses of the district.
(c) Encourage the discontinuance of existing uses that would not be permitted under the
provisions of this ordinance.
RO
Residential Office District
This district is intended to include suburban residential and professional office uses that are in
areas undergoing a transition, or in areas where commercial uses might be damaging to
established residential neighborhoods. This district is further intended to provide a mix of
residential uses with certain specified business, personal and professional services that can
function efficiently without generating large volumes of vehicular traffic. Access to such uses shall
be direct from a major street or highway. The regulations and restrictions in this district are
intended to protect, to preserve and to enhance the residential uses while permitting uses
characterized principally by consultative, personal, executive, administrative services. Strong
preference shall be given to location of complementary additions in the immediate vicinity of
existing uses in patterns which facilitate easy pedestrian circulation from the surrounding area
and from one establishment to another, and to arrangements which encourage joint use of
parking areas and automotive entrances and exits.
R1 Limited Residential District
This district is designed for certain quiet, low-density residential areas plus certain open areas
where similar residential development appears likely to occur. The regulations for this district are
designed to stabilize and protect the essential characteristics of the district, to promote and
encourage a suitable environment for family life where there are children, and to prohibit
commercial activities. To these ends, development is limited basically to relatively low
concentrations, and permitted uses are limited to one-family dwellings providing homes for the
residents plus certain additional uses, such as schools, parks, churches and certain public
facilities, that serve the residents of the district. No home occupations as defined or the
maintenance of poultry or livestock or kennels as defined are permitted in this district.
A Master Plan for Courthouse Village Page 24 of 96
Spring, 2006
Goochland County