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Hanover County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Section 26-138, 26-139, 26-140, 26-141, 26-142, 26-144, 26-145, 26-146, 26-147, 26-148

OfficeAll Hanover County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

Height & bulk

Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.
45 ft
Maximum storiesStoreysHabitable floor levels. Whether a basement or attic counts is defined by the local code.
3
Minimum open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted.
20%
Minimum landscaping
10%

Uses

Permitted by right13

  • Any use permitted in the B-1 Neighborhood Business District
  • Business and professional schools and trade or vocational schools, but not involving combustion engines, heavy duty trucks, heavy equipment, construction machinery, or similar vehicles or equipment
  • Data processing center, internet service providers (ISPs), search portals and related services
  • Hotel, motel, or motor lodge
  • Motion picture and sound recording industries
  • Drafting services
  • The permanent placement or removal of clean earth fill, including all related excavation and filling activities
  • Photographic processing or blueprinting
  • Printing and publishing
  • Railroad spur tracks
  • Research and development in the physical, engineering and life sciences (not testing of combustion engines or explosives)
  • Telecommunications towers and related facilities, in accordance with the standards of sections 26-282 through 26-292
  • Warehousing, storage, wholesaling and distribution (not truck terminals or self-storage facilities)

Conditional / special use14

  • Any B-2 or B-3 use not already specifically allowed in this district
  • Any project wherein the total floor area for limited industrial uses exceeds fifty (50) percent of the project's gross floor area
  • Auditorium or lecture hall
  • Fitness center
  • Golf course (not miniature golf)
  • Heliport or helistop
  • Limited industrial uses which exceed the floor area limitations set forth in section 26-141
  • Public or governmental buildings and uses, including libraries, fire stations (volunteer or otherwise), parks, parkways, and playgrounds
  • Public utilities or public service buildings; generating, purification, or treatment plants; pumping or regulator stations, substations; and power transmission lines not otherwise allowed as a permitted use
  • Recreation facility, indoor
  • Recreation facility, outdoor
  • Research and development in the physical, engineering and life sciences (including testing of combustion engines as accessory to principal use)
  • Sports and recreational instruction (indoor)
  • Telecommunications towers and related facilities that exceed one hundred forty (140) feet in height and temporary telecommunications towers and related facilities of any height

Accessory8

Extracted standards

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

Fencing & walls

Height

Landscaping & trees

Lighting

Lot

Other

  • All uses shall be conducted within a completely enclosed building

    All uses shall be conducted within a completely enclosed building.

  • Required architectural materials

    Materials to be used within the district shall also be specified, and shall be limited to brick, granite, marble, decorative block glass wall, glass curtain wall, architectural stone, architectural precast, architectural concrete, architectural block (including split face block), metal and glass curtain wall, metal curtain construction systems, architectural metals, synthetic stucco, or other materials accepted by the Board at the time of rezoning as being of similar quality.

  • Maximum limited industrial floor area percentage50 pct

    Limited industrial uses shall be limited to fifty (50) percent of the gross floor area of the district

  • Maximum caliper of healthy tree that can be removed without replacement15 in

    No healthy tree with a caliper of fifteen (15) inches or greater, measured six (6) inches from the ground, shall be removed from the site unless such trees are replaced.

  • Minimum districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2. area10 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.

    To be eligible for development under the provisions of this article, a tract of land must comprise a minimum of ten (10) acres.

  • Minimum project perimeter buffer width50 ft

    A continuous buffer no less than fifty (50) feet in width shall be established along the boundary of the office/service district, where the boundary is contiguous with a residential district.

  • Minimum project perimeter buffer width (other cases)25 ft

    In all other cases, a buffer no less than twenty-five (25) feet in width shall be established and maintained.

  • Minimum street buffer width20 ft

    There shall be a continuous buffer no less than twenty (20) feet in width along each side of every public road within the office/service district.

  • Outside storage prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.

    There shall be no outside storage of equipment, materials, or supplies, except that an outdoor trash receptacle may be used as long as it is enclosed within an area which is completely screened from view and which is architecturally compatible with the building(s) on site.

  • Underground utilities required

    All utility lines, such as electric, telephone, cable television, or other similar lines, shall be placed underground.

Parking

  • Parking lot landscaping threshold10 spaces

    Any parking lot containing more than ten (10) spaces shall be landscaped according to the requirements specified in section 26-192.

From the ordinance

Dwellings, business buildings, and all other structures not specifically exempted in section 26-248: Permitted by right: shall not exceed three (3) stories or forty-five (45) feet, whichever is greater. Any development within the office/service district shall be served by public water and sewer.
Section 26-138, 26-139, 26-140, 26-141, 26-142, 26-144, 26-145, 26-146, 26-147, 26-148

Use details

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  "dropped_conditions": {
    "accessory_uses": [
      "Residence, when located within a permitted principal structure, for a person employed on the premises as a resident manager, caretaker, or security guard. There shall be only one (1) such residence per structure"
    ],
    "permitted_uses": [
      "The manufacturing, compounding, processing, packaging or treatment of cosmetics, electrical appliances and machinery and hardware products, electronic and computer products, medical equipment and supplies, musical instruments, perfumes, pharmaceuticals and medicines, soaps (compounding only), tools and dies, toys, games and dolls"
    ]
  }
}