Albemarle County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Sec. 10.2.1 (by right) and Sec. 10.2.2 (special use permit)
Dimensional standards
Density
- Maximum units
- 5
Uses
Permitted by right30
- agriculture, forestry, and fishery uses
- game preserves, wildlife sanctuaries, fishery uses
- water, sewer, energy, communications distribution facilities
- temporary construction uses
- public uses
- temporary sawmill
- veterinary services (off-site treatment only)
- agricultural service occupation
- divisions of land
- homestays
- manufactured homes (individual)
- temporary manufactured home
- farm winery uses
- borrow area/borrow pit
- manufactured homes on individual lots
- commercial stable
- stormwater management facilities
- personal wireless service facilities (Tier I and II)
- farm worker housing (Class A)
- county store (Class A)
- small wind turbines
- farm stands
- family day homes
- farm brewery uses
- events at agricultural operations
- farm distillery uses
- group home
- farmers' markets
- religious assembly use (≤200 persons)
- solar energy facilities (≤21 acres)
Conditional / special use49
- community center
- clubs and lodges
- fire and rescue squad stations (volunteer)
- swim, golf, tennis or similar athletic facilities
- private schools
- energy and communications transmission facilities
- child day centers
- manufactured home subdivisions
- horse show grounds, permanent
- sawmills, planing mills and woodyards
- commercial kennel
- veterinary services, animal hospital
- private airport, helistop, heliport, flight strip
- day camp, boarding camp
- sanitary landfill
- country store, Class B
- commercial fruit or agricultural produce packing plants
- flood control dams and impoundments
- restaurants, taverns, and inns (historic or nonconforming)
- divisions of land as provided in section 10.5.2.1
- boat livery
- permitted residential uses as provided in section 10.5.2.1
- cemetery
- crematorium
- religious assembly use (>200 persons)
- gift, craft and antique shops
- public garage
- exploratory drilling
- hydroelectric power generation
- borrow area, borrow pit not permitted under 10.2.1.18
- convent, monastery
- temporary events sponsored by local nonprofit organizations
- agricultural museum
- theatre, outdoor drama
- off-site parking for historic structures or sites
- animal shelter
- Tier III personal wireless service facilities
- historical centers, historical center special events, historical center festivals
- special events
- farm worker housing, Class B
- sale of gasoline and other fuels in conjunction with a country store
- farm winery uses (c)(3)
- farmers' markets (a-d)
- farm brewery uses (c)(3)
- events and activities at agricultural operations by special use permit
- farm distillery uses (c)(3)
- solar energy facilities (>21 acres)
- landscape contractors on lots three acres or more
- battery energy storage facilities
Extracted standards
5 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Environmental
- Development lot restrictions
Development lots shall not encroach into prime agricultural or forestal soils, critical slope, flood plain, or public drinking water supply tributaries.
Other
- Conventional development limits
Division of a parcel into five or fewer lots of less than 21 acres; aggregate acreage not exceed 31 acres; five or fewer dwelling units.
- Large parcel dwelling
Parcels 21 acres or more may have not more than one dwelling unit.
- Rural preservation maximum lots20 lots
No rural preservation development shall contain more than 20 development lots.
- Rural preservation tract minimum area40 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
No rural preservation tract shall consist of less than 40 acres.
From the ordinance
The following uses shall be permitted by right in the RA district, subject to the applicable requirements of this chapter