Albemarle County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Sec. 30.7
Steep SlopesAll Albemarle County Unincorporated districts0
Dimensional standards
Housing
Servicing
- Applies near
- Steep Slopes Overlay DistrictOverlay districtA second set of rules laid over the base district, adding requirements without replacing it.
- Geographic extent
- Applies to all privately and publicly owned lands within the county that are within the boundaries of the steep slopes overlay districtOverlay districtA second set of rules laid over the base district, adding requirements without replacing it. as depicted on maps.
Uses
Permitted by right8
- existing single-family dwelling unit expansion
- first single-family detached dwelling unit on lot of record
- necessary public facilities
- trails
- accessory uses and structures
- distribution facilities
- legislative zoning actions
- uses on slopes less than 25% based on new topographic information
Conditional / special use1
- private facilities such as accessways, utility lines and appurtenances, and stormwater management facilities
Accessory1
Extracted standards
2 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Design standards
Land disturbing activity to establish a use permitted by right or by special use permit in the steep slopes overlay district is subject to the design standards of Section 4.3.3.
- Slope threshold for preserved slopes25 pct
Slopes less than 25 percent based on new topographic information may be treated as underlying district.
From the ordinance
The uses permitted by right on preserved slopes are the following: ...