Culpeper County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
8B-3.1, 8B-3.2, 8B-3.7
Dimensional standards
Lot
Height & bulk
Uses
Permitted by right84
- Detached Single-Family Dwellings
- Modular Homes
- Manufactured Homes
- Zero Lot Line Detached Single-Family Dwellings
- Semi-Detached/Duplex
- Cottage Court/Bungalow Court/Tiny Home Community
- Zero Lot Line Attached and Townhouse
- Live-Work/Mixed Use
- Manufactured Home Communities
- Antique shop
- Beauty/barber shop
- Convenience or general store
- Delicatessen
- Gasoline station (sales only)
- Laundromat and dry cleaning pick-up station
- Music instruction, conservatory
- Post office
- Real estate office
- Religious institutions
- Tailor and dressmaker/seamstress
- Medical, professional and general offices
- Apparel/clothing
- Auto supplies
- Bakery and confectionery
- Banks and lending institutions
- Blueprinting and copying
- Book store
- Cabinet and furniture repair
- Catalogue sales
- Catering establishment
- Clothing store
- Dance studio
- Doctor/dentist office
- Florist
- Funeral home
- General and professional offices
- Grocery stores
- Hardware store
- Health club (spa, gym, tennis club)
- Interior decorating
- Locksmith
- Musical instruments, records, tapes
- Newsstand
- Pet shop
- Pharmacy
- Photo/film exchange and supplies
- Restaurant
- Retail stores
- Secondhand stores
- Shoe repair
- Small appliance sales, repair
- Tobacco sales
- Video sales/rentals
- Animal hospital, clinic
- Auditorium/theater/assembly hall
- Auto service station
- Private commercial recreation/amusement
- Art supplies
- Business/trade schools
- Car wash
- Department stores
- Discount stores
- Feed stores
- Furniture and appliance stores
- Garden and landscape center
- Hardware store
- Home improvement stores
- Medical or dental clinics and laboratories
- Motel, hotel
- Pawn shops
- Golf driving range
- Parks and playgrounds
- Public recreation
- Pathways and trails
- Conserved land for natural/open space
- Roadways and other rights-of-way
- Stormwater management and other environmental protection installations
- Public spaces such as plazas, squares, and Commons
- Churches, parish houses and Sunday schools
- Family day homes
- Kindergartens and day nurseries
- Private nonprofit clubs
- Libraries, museums and art galleries
- Nursing and convalescent homes
Conditional / special use13
- Bed and breakfast
- Passenger terminals
- Printing and publishing
- Sign printing
- Taxidermist
- Upholstery
- Wholesale and storage, if wholly contained within structures
- Community/public services, including fire and rescue stations, police stations, hospitals and mental clinics
- Public schools
- Institutional homes and health care facilities
- Public utilities
- Residential Professional
- Common recreation uses and structures
Prohibited25
- Auto, trailer sales and service
- Boat sales and service
- Building materials (screened storage only)
- Frozen food locker
- General contractor (screened equipment storage)
- Machinery and tool sales, service, rental
- Plumbing and electrical supplies (screened storage only)
- Golf courses, except driving tees and miniature courses
- Cemeteries
- Assembly of appliances, instruments, devices, radios, machine parts and office machines
- Automobile repair, painting, upholstery, dismantling, assembly
- Contractor's equipment storage yards, lumberyards, building materials and plumbing supply storage
- Fabrication of metal products
- Fabrication of wood products
- Manufacture, assembly and processing of products from previously prepared materials
- Manufacture of pottery and clay or ceramic products
- Public utility generation facilities
- Wholesale and warehouse operations
- Airports
- Debris, landfill and transfer stations
- Processing of extracted minerals and resources
- Outdoor storage
- Truck terminal, transfer and dispatch
- Amphitheaters, amusement parks, arenas, auditoriums, fairgrounds, race tracks, stadiums
- Additional heavy and high intensity commercial and industrial uses
Extracted standards
10 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Lighting
- Outdoor lighting shall be hooded or directed to avoid glare
All lighting shall be hooded or directed to avoid glare and the spread of unrestricted light on adjacent property and roadways.
Other
- Maximum lot coverageLot coverageThe share of a lot that buildings may cover, as a percentage. for mixed-use structures and non-residential developments60 pct
60% for mixed-use structures and non-residential developments.
- Minimum side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. between multiple principal structures15 ft
a side yard shall be provided of fifteen (15) feet or more between structures measured from the nearest building walls
- No residential units on first floor of live-work structures
Live-work structures, and other mixed-use structures that include residential uses, shall have no residential units on the first floor.
- Screening of parking areas for more than 10 vehicles
Parking areas for more than ten (10) vehicles shall be screened or buffered from view from existing public street by berms, landscaping, fences or walls.
- Screening of service, loading, storage and trash areas
All service, loading, storage and trash areas shall be fully screened from view from public streets and from adjacent properties.
- All common utility lines shall be placed underground
All common utility lines shall be placed underground and utilize common easements wherever possible.
Parking
- Green space required in parking areas for more than 10% vehicles5 pct
All parking areas for more than ten percent (10%) of vehicles shall include five percent (5%) green space landscaped
Signage
- Locational advertising signs prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
Locational advertising signs are prohibited.
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. of free-standing signs5 ft
All free-standing signs shall be of monument design and no greater than five (5) feet in height
From the ordinance
The minimum district size shall be twenty (20) acres... At least 50% of the PUD area is to be Open Space... The maximum height of any structure shall be forty-five (45) feet... The PUD shall be connected to public water and sewer.