Where can I put a personal service in Alexandria, VA?

“personal service” matches 6 uses this ordinance names separately. We do not choose between them — they can have different answers, so every one is shown.

Personal service
Personal service establishment
Personal service establishment, pursuant to section 5-509
Personal service or building or hotel lobby, extending for 30 feet or more along King Street
Personal service, except, pawnshops, check cashing, payday loan and title loan businesses
Personal service, with a frontage of less than 30 feet along King Street

Personal service

In 1 district below, this ordinance gives two different answers for this use, and we serve both. The use table lists it on two separate rows, under two different headings, and the rows do not agree. Both are in the tables below, each with its own section, its own quote and its own box on the page, so you can read them side by side. Where the two answers straddle the by-right line, the same district appears in both tables below — that is the ordinance, not a duplicate.

RC — the table gives both Allowed and Conditional

We cannot tell you which row applies to you. We do not choose the stricter one for you — the ordinance never says the stricter row wins, so picking it would be us making a rule up. Ask the city which category your proposal falls under.

Allowed by right in 17 districts

District	Properties loaded	Code	What says so
CD the ordinance paragraph quoted here	419	Allowed	Sec. 4-502(I) Personal service;
CDD#1 when the use is in a location that Sec. 5-608 allows here	74	Allowed	Sec. 4-802(H) Personal service;
CG the ordinance paragraph quoted here	52	Allowed	Sec. 4-402(I) Personal service;
CL the ordinance paragraph quoted here	408	Allowed	Sec. 4-102(H) Personal service;
CR the ordinance paragraph quoted here	no parcels loaded	Allowed	Sec. 4-702(E) Personal service;
CRMU/H the ordinance paragraph quoted here	186	Allowed	Sec. 5-302(F) Personal service;
CRMU/L the ordinance paragraph quoted here	202	Allowed	Sec. 5-102(F) Personal service;
CRMU/M the ordinance paragraph quoted here	200	Allowed	Sec. 5-202(F) Personal service;
CSL the ordinance paragraph quoted here	145	Allowed	Sec. 4-302(H) Personal service;
I the ordinance paragraph quoted here	54	Allowed	Sec. 4-1202(S) Personal service;
OC the ordinance paragraph quoted here	43	Allowed	Sec. 4-802(H) Personal service;
OCH the ordinance paragraph quoted here	234	Allowed	Sec. 4-1102(J) Personal service;
OCM the ordinance paragraph quoted here	no parcels loaded	Allowed	Sec. 4-902(H) Personal service;
OCM(100) the ordinance paragraph quoted here	273	Allowed	Sec. 4-1002(H) Personal service;
OCM(50) the ordinance paragraph quoted here	117	Allowed	Sec. 4-902(H) Personal service;
RD the ordinance paragraph quoted here	1	Allowed	Sec. 3-1001(C)(2) The following uses within a multi-unit building provided they occupy no more than an aggregate measure of ten percent of the gross floor area of said building: ... (2) Personal service;
RMF the ordinance paragraph quoted here	5	Allowed	Sec. 3-1402(C)(1) The following uses shall be permitted within a multi-unit building: ... (1) Personal service;

It depends in 1 district — but the table gives 1 of them a second, different answer as well

District	Properties loaded	Code	What says so
RC one of two rows the table prints for this use in this district, and they do not agree — see the note above this table	169	Allowed	Sec. 3-902(J)(3) The following commercial uses in a residential development of at least 2,000 dwelling units if limited to an area the size of the first floor or any floor below it, whichever is less, and located on the first floor or any floor below the first floor of the building: ... (3) Personal service;
RC (same district) one of two rows the table prints for this use in this district, and they do not agree — see the note above this table	169	Conditional	Sec. 3-903(K)(5) The following commercial uses in a multi-unit building of four or more stories in height if limited to an area the size of the first floor or a floor below it, whichever is less, and located on the first floor or any floor below the first floor of the building: ... (5) Personal service;

Allowed only with a discretionary approval in 2 districts

These require a hearing or an approval from the city. They are not a “no”, and they are not a “yes” either.

District	Properties loaded	Code	What says so
CRMU/X when the use meets the conditions in Sec. 5-406(A)	179	Conditional	Sec. 5-402(O) Personal service;
RCX the ordinance paragraph quoted here	45	Conditional	Sec. 3-803(J)(5) The following commercial uses in a multi-unit building of four or more stories in height if limited to an area the size of the first floor or a floor below it, whichever is less, and located on the first floor or any floor below the first floor of the building: ... (5) Personal service;

Personal service establishment

Allowed by right in 9 districts

District	Properties loaded	Code	What says so
CC the ordinance paragraph quoted here	2	Allowed	Sec. 4-202(H) Personal service establishment;
CDD when the use is in a location that Sec. 5-602(E) allows here	no parcels loaded	Allowed	Sec. 5-602(E)(6) Personal service;
CDD#1 when the use is in a location that Sec. 5-602(E) allows here	74	Allowed	Sec. 5-602(E)(6) Personal service;
CDD#10 when the use is in a location that Sec. 5-602(E) allows here	696	Allowed	Sec. 5-602(E)(6) Personal service;
CDD#16 when the use is in a location that Sec. 5-602(E) allows here	190	Allowed	Sec. 5-602(E)(6) Personal service;
CDD#5 when the use is in a location that Sec. 5-602(E) allows here	372	Allowed	Sec. 5-602(E)(6) Personal service;
CDD#9 when the use is in a location that Sec. 5-602(E) allows here	990	Allowed	Sec. 5-602(E)(6) Personal service;
CDX the ordinance paragraph quoted here	74	Allowed	Sec. 4-602(G) Personal service establishment;
KR when the use is in a location that Sec. 6-702 allows here	160	Allowed	Sec. 6-702(B)(1)(f) Personal service establishment;

Personal service establishment, pursuant to section 5-509

Allowed by right in 1 district

District	Properties loaded	Code	What says so
W-1 the ordinance paragraph quoted here	250	Allowed	Sec. 5-502(C.2) Personal service establishment, pursuant to section 5-509;

Personal service or building or hotel lobby, extending for 30 feet or more along King Street

Allowed only with a discretionary approval in 1 district

These require a hearing or an approval from the city. They are not a “no”, and they are not a “yes” either.

District	Properties loaded	Code	What says so
KR the ordinance paragraph quoted here	160	Conditional	Sec. 6-702(A)(2)(i) Personal service or building or hotel lobby, extending for 30 feet or more along King Street;

Personal service, except, pawnshops, check cashing, payday loan and title loan businesses

Allowed by right in 1 district

District	Properties loaded	Code	What says so
NR the ordinance paragraph quoted here	10	Allowed	Sec. 4-1403(A)(2) Permitted ground floor uses. The following uses are permitted on the ground floor of buildings facing the sidewalk: ... (2) Personal service, except, pawnshops, check cashing, payday loan and title loan businesses;

Personal service, with a frontage of less than 30 feet along King Street

Allowed by right in 1 district

District	Properties loaded	Code	What says so
KR the ordinance paragraph quoted here	160	Allowed	Sec. 6-702(A)(1)(c) Personal service, with a frontage of less than 30 feet along King Street;

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This answer is good through January 24, 2026 — that is the date the ordinance we hold runs to, as published by Municode. We last checked with the city on September 24, 2026 and found nothing newer. That is a check on that date, not a promise about today.

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What this does not cover

25,869 properties are loaded, county-wide. The city’s parcel record gives a street address but no ZIP code, so there is no ZIP breakdown to give and none is shown.
A further 4,248 properties carry a parcel zone code this page cannot match to a single column of the use table: (none), CC;CG, CC;CG;R, CC;R (3 variants, e.g. CC;R5), CD;CDD #, CD;CDX;OC;OCM(, CD;CDX;OCM(, CD;CDX;RM, CD;CL, CD;CL;CRMU/L, CD;CL;KR, CD;CL;RB, CD;CL;RM, CD;CRMU/L and 177 more.
3,800 of those lie in TWO OR MORE districts at once. Their code below holds every district the parcel really shares area with, joined by a semicolon — CC;CG, CC;CG;R5, CC;R5, CC;R5;R8, CC;R8 and 424 more. The ordinance does not say the larger share wins, so we do not pick one: the parcel is shown as straddling and is not counted under either district.
392 of those carry a code that looks like one of the districts above and is not one. CDD #11, CDD #12, CDD #14, CDD #15, CDD #17, CDD #17a and 14 more — these are separate zone classifications in their own right, not the same zone with something added, and the use table has no column for them. We do not fold them in.
(none) above means a parcel with no zone code assigned in the city's own data — 1 of them.
Owner filters. We have an owner of record for 25,099 of Alexandria’s 25,869 parcels, of which 3,100 are owned by a company, trust or other organization, including 368 owned by public bodies — governments, authorities, schools, churches. That split is Zonescore’s reading of the owner’s name, not something the city published, and we keep the two apart rather than deciding for you which counts as an investor. 1,828 have an owner whose mailing address is outside VA — the city publishes the owner’s state as its own field, so this is its answer rather than our reading of an address. It carries one for 25,749 of them; the rest are not counted either way. 15,915 are worth more as land than as building — the city’s own land assessment is at least 50% of its total. 70 properties carry no pair of assessments and are left out of that count rather than treated as zero, which would make every one of them look like bare land.
Owner data from GIS Division of the ITS, City of Alexandria, VA's real estate parcel records, retrieved September 4, 2026.
The parcel record we fetch carries no ZIP code for the property itself, so the district counts above carry no ZIP breakdown. It gives the street address only; the one ZIP it does carry belongs to the owner’s mailing address, which is a fact about a different place and is not used here. We do not infer a ZIP we were not given.
Overlay districts are not modeled here. An overlay can change what a property allows.
Some cells in this ordinance state two outcomes without saying what separates them; those are shown with their code and their source, and not guessed at.

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