Hanover County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Section 26-61, 26-62, 26-64, 26-65
Single FamilyAll Hanover County Unincorporated districts0
Dimensional standards
Lot
Density
Uses
Permitted by right4
- Dwellings, both detached and attached
- Facilities and structures necessary for rendering utility service
- Public and private forests, wildlife reservations, and similar conservation projects
- Telecommunications towers and related facilities that do not exceed fifty (50) feet in height
Conditional / special use10
- Camps, day or boarding, private or commercial
- Institutions, educational or philanthropic, including museums, art galleries and libraries
- Private clubs
- Public or governmental buildings and uses, including schools, fire stations, parks, parkways, and playgrounds
- Public utilities or public service uses, buildings, generating or treatment plants, pumping or regulator stations, substations, and transmission lines
- Swimming or tennis club or other recreational facility
- Churches, rectories, parish houses, convents and monasteries, temples, and synagogues
- Golf courses
- Railroad rights-of-way
- Business or professional office use in an existing residential structure
Accessory19
- Domestic storage in main building or in an accessory building
- Garage, private
- Home occupations in a main building
- Keeping of small animals, insects, reptiles, fish or birds
- Storage of recreational vehicles, utility trailers, boat trailers and similar vehicles
- Swimming pool and game courts, lighted or unlighted, and community buildings or clubhouses
- Signs as regulated in division 7 of article 5
- Temporary buildings, the uses of which are incidental to construction operations
- Accessory off-street parking and loading spaces
- The location of office or construction trailers for a period not to exceed one (1) year
- Foster home
- Telecommunications arrays, located on an existing structure
- 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
- Secondary kitchen
From the ordinance
The base density shall be one (1) residential unit per full acre... The minimum lot size per unit in a District for which development at a density of less than two (2) units per acre has been approved... shall be twenty thousand (20,000) square feet. Structures... shall not exceed a height of three (3) stories or forty-five (45) feet... All development within an RS District shall be served by public water and sewer systems.