Goochland County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Sec. 15-171
Single FamilyAll Goochland County Unincorporated districts0
Dimensional standards
Lot
Density
- Maximum density
- 2.9 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.
- 15,000 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (0.34 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)
Height & bulk
Housing
Servicing
- Geographic extent
- Village areas as designated on the comprehensive planComprehensive planThe long-range policy document zoning is meant to implement; it is not itself binding law.
Uses
Permitted by right7
- Dwelling, manufactured home
- Dwelling, single-family
- Assisted living facility; group home for eight or fewer
- Family day home, four children or fewer
- Park; playground
- School, public
- Utility distribution facility, public, and all accompanying appurtenances and structures
Conditional / special use3
- School, private
- Utility - gas transmission line, compressor station, measurement station, regulator station
- Utility transmission substation; transmission line, other than normal distribution facility
Extracted standards
3 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
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
- Parapet wall heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.6 ft
Parapet walls may rise up to six feet above the finished roof surface.
Other
The area in roads and existing utility rights-of-way are not included in the required open space. The area in lakes, ponds and floodplains cannot exceed 50% of the required open space. There is no open space requirement for developments of six or fewer lots.
From the ordinance
The minimum lot size is 15,000 square feet which allows a density of 2.9 units per acre.