Big Stone Gap, Virginia · General provision
Section 1 - R-C Residential and Historical Conservation District
ConservationAll Big Stone Gap districts0
Dimensional standards
Lot
Density
Uses
Permitted by right5
- Detached single-family dwellings (including cottages, cabins, second hand homes, detached relocatable industrialized building units, but not mobile homes or manufactured homes)
- Facilities and structures necessary for rendering public utility service (poles, wires, transformers, telephone booths, pipelines, conduits)
- Military bases and appurtenances and parks operated by the United States Government or agencies of the Commonwealth of Virginia
- Public and private forests, wildlife reservations, similar conservation projects
- Recreational uses or facilities (commercially operated or private membership): archery range, hunting club, camping areas, picnic grounds, riding stable, and accessory facilities
Conditional / special use4
- Public or governmental buildings and uses (including parks, parkways, playgrounds) except those approved as part of subdivision plan
- Public utilities or public service uses, buildings, generating, purification or treatment plants, pumping or regulator stations, sub-stations, and transmission lines
- Bed and breakfast
- Temporary and special use permits for rifle/pistol ranges, sawmill for cutting timber on premises, private clubs (special exception)
Accessory5
- Guest houses
- Home occupations in a main building
- Swimming pools and game courts (lighted or unlighted) for occupants or guests
- Signs as regulated in Section 1.4
- Accessory off-street parking and loading spaces
Prohibited2
Extracted standards
5 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Front yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. when street width less than 50 ft50 ft
If street is less than 50 feet in width front yard shall be at least 50 feet measured from center line.
Signage
- Maximum name plate or directional sign area2 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
A name plate or directional sign, limited in area to two (2) square feet.
- Maximum no trespassing or no hunting sign area2 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
No trespassing or no hunting signs, without limitations on number or placement, limited in area to two (2) square feet.
- Maximum temporary construction sign area32 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Temporary signs from two hundred (200) square feet to thirty-two (32) square feet.
- Maximum temporary real estate sign area20 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
A temporary, non-illuminated sign, limited in area to twenty (20) square feet, advertising real estate for sale or lease.
From the ordinance
Lot area of less than 5 acres is permitted for single-family dwellings only in approved and recorded subdivisions of 5 or more lots... permanent maximum overall density of not more than 1 dwelling unit per 5 acres. No minimum street frontage is required.