Big Stone Gap, Virginia · General provision
Section 2 - RR Rural Residential District
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right5
- Detached single-family dwellings (including detached relocatable industrialized building units, but not mobile homes or manufactured homes)
- Churches and Sunday Schools, rectories, parish houses, convents and monasteries, temples, and synagogues
- Facilities and structures necessary for rendering public utility service (poles, wires, transformers, telephone booths, underground pipelines or conduits)
- Private stable or keeping of horses, ponies or other livestock for personal enjoyment (building at least 100 ft from side/rear lot lines, max one animal per acre)
- Yard sale or garage sale (max once per year, max 3 days, permit required)
Conditional / special use12
- Special agriculture use (confinement operations)
- Cemeteries, including crematorium
- Convalescent homes, nursing homes or homes for the aged
- Dog kennel, commercial or non-commercial, or any place where more than 5 adult dogs are kept
- Family care homes, foster homes or group homes serving mentally retarded or other developmentally disabled persons
- Hospital or clinic for humans
- Nursery schools, kindergartens, child care centers, day nursery, or day care centers
- Private schools, colleges, or universities
- Public or governmental buildings and uses (including schools, fire stations, parks, parkways, playgrounds)
- Radio or television transmission or receiving tower more than 50 ft in height
- Recreational uses or facilities for private membership (clubs, lodges, golf courses, game courts, swimming pools, archery range, fishing or boating lakes, picnic grounds)
- Any uses permitted as special exceptions in R-C Residential and Historical Conservation District
Accessory8
Prohibited5
- Mobile homes
- Manufactured homes
- Raising large animals (pigs, cows, horses, sheep, goats) on farms less than 10 acres
- Raising for sale of birds, bees, fish, rabbits, or other small animals on lots less than 2 acres
- Commercial slaughtering or processing of animals or poultry
Extracted standards
4 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Accessory dwelling unitsAccessory dwelling unit (ADU)A second, smaller home on a lot that already has one — a garage flat, basement flat or backyard cottage. permitted by special exception
Accessory dwelling units are permitted by special exception approved by the Board of Zoning Appeals and subject to conditions as set forth herein.
- 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 ft60 ft
If street is less than fifty (50) feet in width front yard shall be at least sixty (60) feet measured from centerline.
Signage
- Maximum farm or estate identification sign area20 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
A sign, limited in area to twenty (20) square feet, for identification of a farm or estate or a subdivision or its occupants, for advertisement of farm products raised on the premises, for a church bulletin board or identification of permitted public and semi-public uses.
- Maximum temporary construction sign area32 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
A temporary sign limited in area to thirty-two (32) square feet erected in connection with new construction work.
From the ordinance
Accessory dwelling units are permitted by special exception approved by the Board of Zoning Appeals. Minimum street frontage is fifty (50) feet. If street is less than fifty (50) feet in width front yard shall be at least sixty (60) feet measured from centerline.
Use details
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"dropped_conditions": {
"permitted_uses": [
"General agriculture, farming and forestry (including tilling, raising crops, truck gardens, orchards, nurseries, temporary open air stands not exceeding 200 sq ft, but not raising large animals on farms less than 10 acres, not raising small animals for sale on lots less than 2 acres, not commercial slaughtering)"
]
}
}