Albemarle County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Sec. 10.2.1 and 10.2.2
Dimensional standards
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right38
- single-family dwelling
- two-family dwelling
- agriculture
- forestry
- fishery
- game preserve
- wildlife sanctuary
- water distribution facility
- sewer distribution facility
- energy distribution facility
- communications distribution facility
- temporary construction use
- public use
- temporary sawmill
- veterinary services (off-site treatment only)
- agricultural service occupation
- division of land
- homestay
- manufactured home (individual qualifying)
- temporary manufactured home
- farm winery use
- borrow area (≤50,000 cu yd)
- manufactured home on individual lot
- commercial stable
- stormwater management facility
- personal wireless service facility (Tier I/II)
- farm worker housing (Class A)
- county store (Class A)
- small wind turbine
- farm stand
- family day home
- farm brewery use
- event at agricultural operation
- farm distillery use
- group home
- farmers' market
- religious assembly (≤200 persons)
- solar energy facility (≤21 acres)
Conditional / special use62
- community center
- club or lodge
- fire and rescue squad station
- swim/golf/tennis facility
- private school
- energy transmission facility
- communications transmission facility
- child day center
- manufactured home subdivision
- horse show grounds (permanent)
- sawmill
- planing mill
- woodyard
- commercial kennel
- veterinary services (animal hospital)
- private airport
- helistop
- heliport
- flight strip
- day camp
- boarding camp
- sanitary landfill
- country store (Class B)
- commercial fruit/agricultural produce packing plant
- flood control dam
- impoundment
- restaurant
- tavern
- inn
- division of land (special)
- boat livery
- residential use (special)
- cemetery
- crematorium
- religious assembly (>200 persons)
- gift/craft/antique shop
- public garage
- exploratory drilling
- hydroelectric power generation
- borrow area (not permitted by right)
- convent
- monastery
- temporary event (nonprofit)
- agricultural museum
- outdoor theatre
- off-site parking (historic/industrial)
- animal shelter
- personal wireless service facility (Tier III)
- historical center
- historical center special event
- historical center festival
- special event
- farm worker housing (Class B)
- sale of gasoline with country store
- farm winery use (c)(3)
- farmers' market (a-d)
- farm brewery use (c)(3)
- event at agricultural operation (SUP)
- farm distillery use (c)(3)
- solar energy facility (>21 acres)
- landscape contractor (≥3 acres)
- battery energy storage facility
Extracted standards
6 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Maximum development lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built. factor6 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones. per lot
The area devoted to development lots together with the area of roadway necessary to provide access to such lots shall not exceed the number of development lots multiplied by a factor of six expressed in acres
- Maximum development lots in rural preservation development20 lots
no rural preservation development shall contain more than 20 development lots
- Maximum dwelling unitsDwelling unitOne independent home: its own kitchen, bathroom and entrance. per rural preservation tract1 units
not more than one dwelling unit shall be located on any rural preservation tract or development lot
- Maximum parcels per parcel of record5 parcels
no parcel of land of record on the date of the adoption of this ordinance may be divided into an aggregate of more than five parcels
- Maximum dwelling unitsDwelling unitOne independent home: its own kitchen, bathroom and entrance. per parcel5 units
nor shall there be constructed on any such parcel an aggregate of more than five units
- Minimum rural preservation tract size40 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... The following uses shall be permitted by special use permit in the RA district...