Albemarle County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Sec. 23.2.1-23.2.2
Uses
Permitted by right25
- administrative office
- business office
- medical office
- dental office
- optical office
- financial institution
- religious assembly
- library
- museum
- accessory use
- utility distribution facility
- public use
- temporary construction headquarters
- temporary construction storage yard
- dwelling
- industrialized building
- child day center
- stormwater management facility
- personal wireless service facility (Tier I/II)
- farmers' market
- laboratory
- research and development facility
- experimental testing facility
- drive-through window
- restaurant
Conditional / special use17
- hospital
- funeral home
- energy and communications transmission facility
- stand alone parking
- school of special instruction
- club
- lodge
- residential use (R-15)
- hotel
- motel
- inn
- supporting commercial use
- indoor athletic facility
- personal wireless service facility (Tier III)
- storage/warehousing/distribution/transportation
- manufacturing/processing/assembly/fabrication/recycling
- data center
Extracted standards
2 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Maximum accessory useAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. floor area20 pct
The aggregate of all accessory uses shall not occupy more than 20 percent of the floor area of the buildings on the site.
- Maximum laboratory gross floor area4,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Laboratories/Research and Development/Experimental Testing; gross floor area of the establishment does not exceed 4,000 square feet per site.
From the ordinance
The following uses shall be permitted in the CO district... The following uses shall be permitted only by special use permit approved by the board of supervisors...