Hanover County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 26-297

Dimensional standards

Extracted standards

10 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.

Other

  • Only storage of customers' goods

    Activity on-site other than storage of customers' goods and wares shall be prohibited.

  • Aisle widths

    Within the project, aisles which have units (doors) on both sides shall be a minimum of thirty (30) feet wide (two (2) ten-foot parking lanes; one (1) ten-foot travel lane); for aisles with units (doors) on one (1) side only, the aisle shall be a minimum of twenty-five (25) feet wide (one (1) ten-foot parking lane; one (1) fifteen-foot travel lane).

  • Buildings face center of property

    All storage buildings shall face the center of the property. All circulation on-site shall be designed to be internal; no aisles shall be placed between a building and a property line unless only one (1) building is proposed on site.

  • Conversion requires zoning compliance

    Conversion of any self-storage facilities to any other uses shall require review for zoning compliance, including the issuance of a new certificate of occupancy.

  • Compliance with fire code

    All storage shall be in compliance with the restrictions specified in the county fire code.

  • The storage building shall be limited to three (3) stories (forty-five (45) feet) in height. Elevations for all proposed structures shall be provided with the application.

  • Lighting compliance

    All on-site lighting shall comply with the requirements of division 6 of article 5.

  • Parking requirements

    Parking requirements shall be based on the number of storage units provided and the square footage of the office area. These requirements are additive and the spaces shall be located near the office at the rate of one (1) space per four hundred (400) square feet of office area (minimum two (2) spaces) plus one (1) space per fifty (50) storage units or fraction (minimum two (2) spaces).

  • Screening and landscaping

    The property shall be screened according to county standards around the perimeter of the property with either a fence or plantings. The front need not be screened, but landscaping shall be required as follows: per each twenty (20) linear feet of perimeter of the storage building, one (1) tree and two (2) shrubs shall be planted.

  • Site plan required

    A site plan shall be required regardless of square footage or location.

From the ordinance

Self-storage warehouses.
Sec. 26-297

Parking requirements

{
  "office": "1 per 400 sq ft (min 2)",
  "storage_units": "1 per 50 units (min 2)"
}