Goochland County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Article 6, Sec. 15-131 through 15-134
Dimensional standards
Lot
Height & bulk
Housing
Servicing
- Geographic extent
- Areas designated as rural enhancement areas on the comprehensive planComprehensive planThe long-range policy document zoning is meant to implement; it is not itself binding law.
Uses
Permitted by right8
- Dwelling, manufactured home
- Dwelling, single-family
- Assisted living facility; group home for eight or fewer
- Equestrian - horse boarding; horse breeding stable; barn and other facility for keeping of livestock, horses, or ponies
- Family day home, four children or fewer
- Fire and rescue station
- Park; playground
- Utility distribution facility, public, and all accompanying appurtenances and structures
Extracted standards
5 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Environmental
- Limit gradingGrading (cut & fill)Reshaping land by removing earth (cut) or adding it (fill), often capped by volume. and native plant removal
Developments should include a significant amount of open space, limit the amount of grading and native plant removal, and create minimal visual and other adverse impacts.
Height
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.
Accessory structure height less than main building height.
Other
- Maximum share of open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. from lakes/ponds/floodplains50 pct
The area in lakes, ponds and floodplains cannot exceed 50% of the required open space/natural area.
- Minimum open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted./natural area25 pct
A minimum of 25% of this district's acreage must be open space/natural area.
- Open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. exemption for developments of six or fewer lots
There is no requirement for open space/natural area for developments of six or fewer lots.
From the ordinance
Minimum lot size of five acres... minimum 25% open space/natural area.