Front Royal, Virginia · General provision
175-37.1 through 175-37.5
Planned DevelopmentAll Front Royal districts0
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right23
- detached single-family dwelling
- two-family dwelling
- multi-family dwelling
- townhouse
- accessory building
- recreation facility
- retirement living facility
- municipal building
- public utility
- home occupation
- public library
- school
- church
- special childcare service
- open space
- day care center
- community hall
- neighborhood commercial business
- personal service
- business office
- professional office
- neighborhood restaurant
- bank
Conditional / special use4
Extracted standards
3 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Conservation lands
Lands with the following characteristics shall not be developed and shall not be platted as part of a residential, community, institutional or commercial lot within a planned neighborhood development: land within the 100-year floodplain; land with a natural slope in excess of forty percent (40%)
- Minimum contiguous acreage20 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
Planned neighborhood developments shall contain not less than twenty (20) contiguous acres.
- Single ownership or participation
The project area must be held in single ownership or all property owners within the proposed district must participate in the application.
From the ordinance
Planned neighborhood developments shall contain not less than twenty (20) contiguous acres... Overall residential density shall not exceed the overall allowable residential density of the parcel or parcels involved prior to the re-zoning... may be increased at the Town Council's discretion up to a maximum of six (6.0) dwelling units per acre... Conserves a minimum of twenty-five percent (25%) open space.