Dimensional standards
Density
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
- Three-family
- by_right
- Four-plus family
- by_right
Servicing
- Applies near
- adaptive area
- Geographic extent
- Lands designated as adaptive area in the Herndon 2030 Comprehensive PlanComprehensive planThe long-range policy document zoning is meant to implement; it is not itself binding law.
Uses
Permitted by right13
- townhouse
- duplex
- quadraplex
- single-family detached dwelling
- group home
- family day care home
- park, playground, or community center
- library, museum, or similar public facility
- government building or facility
- home occupation
- accessory features (fences, walls, retaining walls, gate houses, trash enclosures, refuse containers, screening enclosures, storage sheds, swimming pools)
- accessory structures
- temporary uses and structures
Conditional / special use8
- assisted living facility
- continuing care retirement community
- place of worship
- school, public or private
- utility facility
- bed and breakfast
- social service and similar community service uses
- multifamily dwellings exceeding 15 dwelling units per acre and up to 22 units per acre
Prohibited3
- vehicle repair (engine, body, or other repair or repainting of vehicles owned by a person not residing at the address)
- commercial display and sale of vehicles
- portable storage units as accessory structures
Extracted standards
4 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Density
- Maximum density with special exception22 du/acdu/acreDwelling units per acre — the number of homes allowed on each acre of land.
Multifamily dwellings exceeding 15 dwelling units per acre and up to the maximum permissible gross density of 22 units per acre.
Fencing & walls
- Fences and walls
Development in the RM district shall conform to the applicable standards for residential districts in section 78-115.2 and 78-115.2(i), specifically.
Lighting
- Exterior lighting
Development in the RM district shall conform to the exterior lighting standards for residential districts in section 78-130.9.
Other
- Landscaping, buffering and screening
Development in the RM district shall conform to the landscaping, buffer and screening standards in Article XI, Development Standards and Perimeter Buffer Strip Requirements for Residential Districts in Tables 78-110.3(e)(4)a. and 78-110.3(e)(4)b.
From the ordinance
The maximum density allowed in the RM district is 15 dwelling units per acre. Multifamily dwellings exceeding 15 du/ac and up to 22 du/ac may be permitted by special exception.