Cumberland County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Sec. 74-2 (Definitions)
Extracted standards
1 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- HeightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. measurement method
vertical distance from finished grade to the top of the highest roof beams on a flat or shed roof, to the deck level on a mansard roof, and the average distance between the eaves and the ridge level for gable, hip, and gambrel roofs
From the ordinance
Building, height of means the vertical distance from finished grade to the top of the highest roof beams on a flat or shed roof, to the deck level on a mansard roof, and the average distance between the eaves and the ridge level for gable, hip, and gambrel roofs. For buildings set back from the street line, the height shall be measured from the average elevation of the ground surface along the front of the building.