Hanover County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Sections 26-42 to 26-54
Single FamilyAll Hanover County Unincorporated districts0
Dimensional standards
Density
- Maximum density
- 0.16 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.
- 272,250 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (6.25 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)
Height & bulk
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right10
- Single-family dwellings, detached
- Facilities and structures necessary for rendering utility service
- Telecommunications towers and related facilities that do not exceed fifty (50) feet
- Natural or landscaped buffers
- Passive or active recreation areas
- Forests, wildlife reservations, and conservation areas
- Agricultural uses (with exceptions)
- Private stables and other facilities for keeping of horses or ponies
- Golf courses, public or private
- Common open space uses
Conditional / special use8
- Public utilities or public service uses
- Restaurant
- Antique stores
- Bed and breakfast
- Accessory housing unit
- Telecommunications towers and related facilities that exceed fifty (50) feet but do not exceed one hundred (100) feet
- Public or commercial stable on preservation lots
- Short-term rentals, non-owner-occupied, or short-term rental, accessory detached
Accessory35
- Domestic storage
- Private garages
- Guesthouses
- Home occupations
- Keeping of companion animals
- Quarters for domestic employees
- Storage of recreational vehicles
- Swimming pools and game courts
- Temporary buildings
- Accessory off-street parking
- Construction trailers
- Foster home
- Family day homes
- Temporary family health care structures
- Tier 1 battery energy storage systems
- Solar energy facility, accessory, ground-mounted
- Solar energy facility, accessory, roof-mounted
- Accessory housing unit
- Home occupation
- Keeping of animals
- Solar energy equipment
- Wind energy systems
- Family day care home
- Residential care home
- Swimming pools, hot tubs, and spas
- Recreational facilities, noncommercial
- Gardens, noncommercial
- Greenhouses, noncommercial
- Storage of boats, campers, travel trailers
- Storage of commercial vehicles
- Parking of vehicles
- Yard sales
- Temporary storage containers
- Short-term rental, owner-occupied
- Secondary kitchen
From the ordinance
Maximum density shall be one (1) residential unit per six and one-quarter (6.25) acres. A minimum of seventy (70) percent of the net acreage shall be conservation areas. Structures shall not exceed 2.5 stories or 35 feet.