Culpeper County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Article 8B, Section 8B-3
Planned Unit DevelopmentAll Culpeper County Unincorporated districts0
Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
- Three-family
- by_right
- Four-plus family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right77
- Detached Single-Family Dwellings, Modular Homes, and Manufactured Homes
- Semi-Detached/Duplex
- Manufactured Home Communities
- Antique shop
- Beauty/barber shop
- Convenience or general store
- Delicatessen
- Gasoline station (sales only, automotive repair prohibited)
- 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 (billiards, bowling alley, miniature golf, etc.)
- Art supplies
- Business/trade schools
- Car wash
- Department stores
- Discount stores
- Feed stores
- Furniture and appliance stores
- Garden and landscape center
- Home improvement stores
- Medical or dental clinics and laboratories
- Motel, hotel
- Pawn shops
- Golf driving range
- Parks and playgrounds
- Public recreation (swimming pool, tennis courts, community center, etc.)
- 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 use21
- 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 subject to certification by the Commonwealth of Virginia and excluding those of a correctional nature or uses where involuntary detention is intended
- Residential Professional
- Public utilities
- Common recreation uses and structures
- Private schools
- Agriculture
- Data processing and computing, secure messaging services and customer support
- Dry cleaners and laundries
- Indoor sports facility
- Parking structures
- Radio and television studios and broadcasting facilities
- Research and development activities, including laboratories, testing, prototype manufacture, experimental work and related operations
Prohibited22
- 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. Also the manufacture of small parts, such as coils, condensers, transformers, etc.
- Automobile repair, painting, upholstery, dismantling, assembly
- Contractor's equipment storage yards, lumberyards, building materials and plumbing supply storage, all subject to screening and landscaping
- Fabrication of metal products, such as bicycles, toys, jewelry, furniture, instruments, but excluding sheet metal products
- Fabrication of wood products such as cabinetry, furniture, toys, boats and woodworking
- Manufacture of pottery and clay or ceramic products using only previously pulverized clay and kilns fired by electricity or natural gas
- Public utility generation facilities
- Wholesale and warehouse operations
- Airports
- Processing of extracted minerals and resources and related wholesale operations subject to the screening and landscaping of any outdoor stockpile and storage
- Outdoor storage subject to screening and landscaping. Storage of explosive or hazardous materials incidental to production or use
- Truck terminal, transfer and dispatch
- Additional heavy and high intensity commercial and industrial uses deemed by the Zoning Administrator to be similar in nature to other permitted uses in the HI zoning district
Extracted standards
12 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Design
- No residential units on first floor for live-work
Live-work structures, and other mixed-use structures that include residential uses, shall have no residential units on the first floor.
Lighting
- Lighting glare control
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
There shall be a maximum lot coverage of: i. 35% for residential developments. ii. 60% for mixed-use structures and non-residential developments.
- Minimum districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2. area20 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
The minimum district size shall be twenty (20) acres, whether on a single parcel or on multiple contiguous parcels.
- Minimum side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. between structures15 ft
Whenever there is more than one (1) detached principal structure on a lot, a side yard shall be provided of fifteen (15) feet or more between structures measured from the nearest building walls (excluding porches, balconies, stairs and eaves).
- Open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. maintenance required
All common open space shall be protected by covenants and open space easements setting forth the provisions for its ownership and maintenance.
- Parking area screening
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.
- Service area screening
All service, loading, storage and trash areas shall be fully screened from view from public streets and from adjacent properties.
- Underground utility lines
All common utility lines shall be placed underground and utilize common easements wherever possible.
Parking
- Parking area green space5 pct
All parking areas for more than ten percent (10%) of vehicles shall include five percent (5%) green space landscaped to break up the continuity of impervious surface.
Signage
- Locational advertising signs prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
Locational advertising signs are prohibited.
- Maximum free-standing sign heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.5 ft
All free-standing signs shall be of monument design and no greater than five (5) feet in height and shall be sited to avoid obscuring entry or egress sight distance.
From the ordinance
The minimum district size shall be twenty (20) acres... There shall be no minimum lot size... The maximum height of any structure shall be forty-five (45) feet... At least 50% of the PUD area is to be Open Space.
Use details
{
"dropped_conditions": {
"permitted_uses": [
"Zero Lot Line Detached Single-Family Dwellings (may be modular)",
"Cottage Court/Bungalow Court/Tiny Home Community developments of only Detached Single-Family Dwellings (may be modular)(can be in a condominium format)",
"Zero Lot Line Attached and Townhouse (may be modular)",
"Live-Work/Mixed Use (see commercial matrix for allowed commercial uses) (may be attached)"
],
"prohibited_uses": [
"Manufacture, assembly and processing of products from previously prepared materials including: electrical and electronic components and equipment; musical, scientific, medical, dental and photographic equipment; pharmaceutical, cosmetics, toiletries; frozen foods, beverages, confections, horticultural products; clothing and textiles",
"Debris, landfill and transfer stations, subject to screening and acceptable soil conditions, state permitting, annual inspection and restriction on any burning. Adequate buffer and demonstration of compatibility with adjacent uses without nuisance is required prior to special permit approval; recycling centers"
],
"conditional_uses": [
"Amphitheaters, amusement parks, arenas, auditoriums, fairgrounds, race tracks, stadiums or similar public gathering facilities mainly intended for recreational uses. Ancillary and related uses such as associated offices, equipment testing facilities, assembly, food services and the like are also permitted"
]
}
}