Hanover County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Section 26-264

Dimensional standards

Servicing

Applies near
Route 360, 301, 1, 33, 54, or 30
Geographic extent
Commercial sites on designated major thoroughfares; buffer increased to 25 ft on Route 360, 301, 1, 33, 54, or 30

Extracted standards

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

Noise

  • Outside speakers not audible beyond property line

    Outside speakers used in conjunction with any establishment shall not be audible beyond the property line of the establishment.

Other

  • Maximum berm gradient3 ratio

    gradient of no more than 3:1

  • the berms shall have a minimum height of three (3) feet and a gradient of no more than 3:1

  • Tree reduction with berms50 pct

    Where such berms are provided, there shall be a fifty-percent reduction in the number of required trees within the thoroughfare buffer

  • Buffer width along major thoroughfare15 ft

    at least fifteen (15) feet shall be maintained along the road frontage as a buffer

  • Buffer width on specified routes25 ft

    the buffer shall be increased to twenty-five (25) feet

  • Evergreen shrub spacing in buffer4 ft on center

    The following evergreen shrubs shall be planted four (4) feet on center with triangular spacing

  • Evergreen tree spacing in buffer8 ft on center

    The following evergreen trees shall be planted at eight (8) feet on center with the rows six (6) feet apart (staggered, triangular spacing)

  • at least one shrub... for each thirty (30) feet of lineal frontage

  • Deciduous or evergreen tree per 50 ft frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street.1 per 50 ft

    at least one deciduous tree... or one evergreen tree... for each fifty (50) feet of lineal frontage

From the ordinance

When a commercial site is located on a designated major thoroughfare, at least fifteen (15) feet shall be maintained along the road frontage as a buffer. When a site has frontage on Route 360, 301, 1, 33, 54, or 30, the buffer shall be increased to twenty-five (25) feet.
Section 26-264