Essex County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Section 36.240-36.242
Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
- Three-family
- by_right
- Four-plus family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right7
- attached and detached single-family dwellings
- duplexes
- townhouses
- attached and detached multi-family (condominiums and/or apartments)
- non-residential uses as permitted in B-1 and B-2
- public spaces
- community and recreational uses
Extracted standards
4 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Maximum residential units before non-residential construction50 pct
Maximum of 50% of the total residential uses for the project are permitted to receive certificates of occupancy until such time as construction is complete on 40% of the non-residential uses for the project.
- Minimum commercial land area20 pct
Overall not less than 20% commercial uses
- Minimum non-residential land area30 pct
Minimum of 30% of the total land area of the PUD must include non-residential uses
- Minimum public/recreational/open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. land area10 pct
not less than 10% public/recreational and open space uses
From the ordinance
Minimum of 30% of the total land area of the PUD must include non-residential uses (Overall not less than 20% commercial uses and not less than 10% public/recreational and open space uses)