Hanover County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Section 26-204 to 26-207
Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
Servicing
- Applies near
- U.S. Route 1
- Geographic extent
- Ashland Area Overlay DistrictOverlay districtA second set of rules laid over the base district, adding requirements without replacing it.; additional requirements for sites with frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street. on U.S. Route 1
Uses
Permitted by right1
Conditional / special use9
- Agricultural uses
- Raising for sale of birds, bees, fish, rabbits, and other small animals
- Animal, poultry, and bird raising, commercial
- Pulp mills
- Asphalt or asphalt products, including batching and mixing
- Fish curing and smoking, fish oils and meal
- Glue, hides, and raw fur curing, tanning, dressing, dyeing, and storage
- Leather tanning and curing
- Meat or fish products, including slaughtering of animals or poultry or preparation of fish for packing
Extracted standards
6 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Landscaping & trees
- Minimum deciduous trees per gross acreacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.5 trees/acreacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
Within the open space, at least five (5) deciduous trees per gross acre for each site shall be planted
Other
- Maximum access points per 500 feet of frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street.1 points/500ft
Access to U.S. Route 1 shall be limited to no more than one point of ingress/egress for every five hundred (500) feet of frontage
- Maximum caliper for tree removal without replacement15 in
no healthy trees with a caliper of fifteen (15) inches or greater ... shall be removed from the site unless such trees are replaced
- Minimum permanent open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted.10 pct
At least ten (10) percent of the lot area shall be permanent open space.
- Underground utilities required
All utilities shall be placed underground regardless of the underlying zoning district
Signage
- Sign program required
Signage shall be designed as part of a sign program for the development.
From the ordinance
All uses permitted in the underlying zoning districts shall be permitted in the Ashland Area Overlay District... At least ten (10) percent of the lot area shall be permanent open space.