Essex County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Section 36.176(a)
Extracted standards
6 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
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- Site plan exception - accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. under 2500 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.2,500 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Accessory Uses where the area of land disturbance is less than 2,500 square feet.
- Site plan exception - agriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them.
Bona fide agricultural operations and the customary accessory uses and structures associated with bona fide agricultural operations.
- Site plan exception - fillGrading (cut & fill)Reshaping land by removing earth (cut) or adding it (fill), often capped by volume./gradingGrading (cut & fill)Reshaping land by removing earth (cut) or adding it (fill), often capped by volume. under 2500 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.2,500 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Filling and grading operations where the area of land disturbance is less than 2,500 square feet where no impervious structures, surfaces or improvements will be installed and no clearing undertaken.
- Site plan exception - repairs
Repairs of a general nature to existing buildings.
- Site plan exception - single family
Individual Single-Family Dwellings.
- Site plan exception - two family
Individual Two-Family Dwellings.
From the ordinance
Site plans are required and shall be submitted for all new structures, all renovated structures, and all additions to existing structures, with the following exceptions: (1) Individual Single-Family Dwellings. (2) Individual Two-Family Dwellings. (3) Accessory Uses where the area of land disturbance is less than 2,500 square feet.