Hanover County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Article 26-54
Dimensional standards
Density
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right49
- Single-family dwellings, detached
- Animal hospital or clinic for small animals
- Antiques stores
- Arts and craft stores
- Automobile parts and accessories sales
- Bakery, retail
- Banks and other financial institutions
- Bicycle sales and repair shops
- Catering or delicatessen business
- Clothing stores
- Consignment stores
- Convenience store without fuel sales
- Copy and print store
- Dry cleaners
- Electronics and appliance sales or repair
- Exam preparation and tutoring
- Fabric stores
- Farmers market
- Fitness center (indoor only)
- Flower shops
- Food and beverage stores
- Furniture stores
- Gift and novelty stores
- Hardware stores
- Health equipment rental
- Health supplement stores
- Hobby, toy and game stores
- Home furnishing stores
- Home hardware rental
- Laundromats
- Lawn and garden equipment and supply stores
- Musical instrument and supplies stores
- Office supplies and stationery stores
- Offices, business, governmental, medical or professional
- Packaging and mailing services
- Paint and wallpaper stores
- Party equipment rental
- Personal service establishment
- Pet shop or animal grooming establishment
- Pharmacies and drug stores
- Restaurants
- Restaurants, carry-out
- Restaurants, fast food, but not drive-through
- Restaurants with craft brewery
- Shoe repair shops
- Souvenir stores
- Sporting goods stores
- Studios for artists, photographers, sculptors, or musicians
- Tailors
Conditional / special use20
- Multiple-use structure with no more than three (3) residential units
- Any commercial use exceeding four thousand (4,000) square feet
- Hotel or motel with no more than twenty (20) rooms
- Nursery for growing or propagation of plants, trees, and shrubs
- Greenhouses, commercial, wholesale or retail
- Wineries (not including vineyards)
- Craft brewery
- Reupholstery and furniture, repair and maintenance
- Personal and household goods, repair and maintenance
- Sound recording industries
- Statuary goods stores
- Clinics
- Camps, day or boarding, private or commercial
- Institutions, educational or philanthropic
- Private clubs
- Meeting hall
- Public or governmental buildings and uses
- Public utilities or public service uses
- Swimming or tennis club or other recreational facility
- Churches, rectories, parish houses, convents and monasteries, temples, and synagogues
Accessory18
- Domestic storage
- Garage, private
- Home occupations
- Keeping of small animals, insects, reptiles, fish or birds
- Storage of recreational vehicles
- Swimming pool and game courts
- Signs
- Temporary buildings
- Accessory off-street parking
- Office or construction trailers
- Foster home
- Telecommunications arrays
- 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
- Short-term rental, owner-occupied
Extracted standards
5 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Maximum density with conditional useConditional useAllowed only after a discretionary approval — usually a public hearing and a board vote. permit3 units/acreacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
With approval of a conditional use permit, density may be increased to up to three (3) units per acre for this use.
- Maximum floor area for permitted commercial uses4,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
The following commercial uses are permitted, provided that the use occupies no more than four thousand (4,000) square feet.
- Maximum percentage of floor area for residential use50 pct
No more than fifty (50) percent of the floor area within such structure may be used for residential purposes.
- Maximum residential units in multiple-use structure3 units
Multiple-use structure, with no more than three (3) residential units.
- Maximum rooms in hotel or motel20 rooms
Hotel or motel with no more than twenty (20) rooms.
From the ordinance
Permitted commercial uses shall occupy no more than 4,000 square feet. Multiple-use structure with no more than 3 residential units, provided no more than 50% of floor area is residential.