Article 7, Sec. 15-141 through 15-146
Dimensional standards
Lot
Density
- Maximum density
- 0.5 du/acredu/acreDwelling units per acre — the number of homes allowed on each acre of land.
- Lot area per dwelling unitLot area per dwelling unitLand required for each home — the same limit as du/acre, expressed per unit instead of per acre.
- 87,120 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (2 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)
Height & bulk
Housing
Servicing
- Applies near
- Rural Enhancement Areas
- Geographic extent
- Areas designated 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 right9
- Dwelling, manufactured home
- Dwelling, single-family
- Assisted living facility; group home for eight or fewer
- Family day home, four children or fewer
- Horticulture and garden associated with a residential use
- Recreation area, passive or active; pedestrian and jogging trail; bicycle path; picnic and sitting area; similar facility serving residents of the development
- Utility distribution facility, public, and all accompanying appurtenances and structures
- Buffer, natural or landscaped
- Recreation, passive
Conditional / special use5
- Equestrian - horse boarding; horse breeding stable; barn and other facility for keeping of livestock, horses, or ponies
- Recreation, active
- Utilities, public or public service uses, buildings, treatment plants, pumping or regulator stations, substations and power transmission lines within the preservation tract
- Well; disposal facility, including drainfields, for community recreational facilities
- Agriculture (with approved management plan)
Accessory3
- Structures for sale of farm products raised on the premises
- Open or enclosed storage of farm materials, products, or equipment
- Farm buildings, including barns, stables, sheds, tool rooms, shops, bins, tanks and silos
Extracted standards
8 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Environmental
- Intermittent stream bufferRiparian bufferA strip along a stream or wetland that must be left undisturbed.50 ft
50-foot buffers on each side of all intermittent streams
- Perennial stream bufferRiparian bufferA strip along a stream or wetland that must be left undisturbed.100 ft
100-foot buffers on each side of all perennial streams
Other
- AgriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them. accessory usesAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. on parcels 25 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones. or more
On parcels of 25 acres or more used for agricultural purposes, the following are permitted only as accessory uses... structures for sale of farm products, storage, farm buildings.
- Management plan required for agriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them./forestal uses
When the preservation tract will be used for agriculture, forests, wildlife reservations, or conservation areas, a management plan is required.
The district requires 50% open space and requires a minimum lot size of two acres.
- Minimum preservation tract percentage50 pct
The preservation tract must consist of at least 50% of the acreage of the district.
- Preservation tract must be owned by HOA
All of the preservation tract must be owned by a homeowners' or property owners' association.
- Preserve rural viewsheds
The preservation tract must be designed to preserve rural viewsheds from public roads and other public areas.
From the ordinance
This district requires 50% open space and requires a minimum lot size of two acres.