Dimensional standards
Lot
- Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built.
- 30,000 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (0.69 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)
- Minimum lot depth
- 200 ft
Height & bulk
Housing
Servicing
- Applies near
- James River
- Geographic extent
- Generally near the James River and its tributaries
Uses
Permitted by right20
- Greenhouse, private
- Roadside stand
- Stable, private
- Accessory apartment
- Dwelling, single-family, detached
- Family day care home
- Group home
- Home occupation, community
- Kennel, private
- Temporary emergency housing
- Cemetery
- Community center
- Community recreation
- Park and ride facility
- Public park and recreational area
- Religious assembly
- Utility service/minor
- Real estate office, temporary
- Studio, fine arts
- Amateur radio tower
Conditional / special use18
- Dwelling, multifamily conversion
- Manufactured home, Class A
- Manufactured home, temporary residence
- Windmill
- Condominium
- Dwelling, single-family, attached
- Dwelling, two-family
- Multifamily dwelling
- Townhouse
- Crisis center
- Day care center
- Educational facility
- Public facilities
- Utility service/major
- Convenience store
- Marina
- Restaurant, general
- Alternate discharge sewage system
Extracted standards
1 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Maximum accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure size4 pct
Accessory structures shall not exceed four percent of the lot area not to exceed 2,000 square feet unless a special use permit is approved by the BZA.
From the ordinance
Purpose: provide for vacation home development near James River. Lot requirements in 3-603. Height/bulk in 3-604.