Botetourt County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Sec. 25-446(d)
Wind EnergyAll Botetourt County Unincorporated districts0
Dimensional standards
Extracted standards
5 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
A temporary meteorological tower shall not exceed one hundred ninety-nine (199) feet in height.
Lighting
- Lighting restriction
A temporary meteorological tower shall not be artificially lighted unless required by the FAA or appropriate authority.
Other
- Maximum permit duration24 months
Any approved permit shall be valid for a period that does not exceed twenty-four (24) months.
- Minimum lot size5,000 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
No temporary meteorological tower shall be permitted by right on a lot or parcel smaller than five thousand (5,000) acres in size.
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. as % of heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. from property line400 pct
A temporary meteorological tower shall be setback a distance at least equal to four hundred (400) percent of the total structure height from any property line.
From the ordinance
A temporary meteorological tower shall not exceed one hundred ninety-nine (199) feet in height. No temporary meteorological tower shall be permitted by right on a lot or parcel smaller than five thousand (5,000) acres in size.