James City County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 24-482 to 24-497

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETSTREETFront 75 ftRear 75 ftSide 75 ftStreet side 75 ftMAX HEIGHT60 ftMIN OPEN SPACE35%
Plan view of the district’s stated lot requirements. Solid line: the property line. Dashed: the setback lines the ordinance imposes; a building must stay inside the tinted envelope. Drawn from the figures extracted below — illustrative, not a survey.

Uses

Permitted by right18

Conditional / special use3

  • Group homes or residential facilities for nine or more adults
  • Water facilities (public) and sewer facilities (public), including but not limited to, treatment plants, pumping stations, storage facilities and transmission mains, wells and associated equipment such as pumps to be owned and operated by political jurisdictions
  • Manufacture, compounding, processing or packaging of beverages or food and food products, but not slaughter of animals

Extracted standards

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

Lighting

Other

  • Performance standards for contractor offices, shops, and warehouses

    All materials and equipment shall be stored in a fully enclosed building; all operations shall be conducted so that the effects of noise, dust, light or odor shall not extend beyond the limits of the area designated on a master plan as light industrial; oversized vehicles shall be parked behind a building or fully screened with landscaping from adjacent roadways.

  • Planned unit development districts shall be located on a single parcel of land or separate but adjacent parcels which are under one ownership or control and which shall total five acres or more.

  • For commercial uses a minimum landscape buffer of 75 feet shall be maintained from all property lines adjoining a different zoning district which abut the site and/or existing or planned public roads or properties that are peripheral to the planned unit development district.

  • Perimeter buffer for industrial, public or institutional uses100 ft

    For industrial, public or institutional uses a minimum landscaped buffer of 100 feet shall be maintained from all property lines adjoining a different zoning district which abut the site and/or existing or planned public roads or properties that are peripheral to the planned unit development district.

  • Perimeter buffer for industrial when adjoining residential125 ft

    Where industrial structures adjoin an existing residentially zoned district or an A-1 district that is designated low-density residential or rural lands on the Comprehensive Plan, the minimum landscaped buffer shall be increased to 125 feet.

Setback

From the ordinance

Planned unit development districts shall be categorized as either residential (PUD-R) or commercial (PUD-C). Minimum area 5 acres. Open space 35%. Height up to 60 ft. Commercial buffer 75 ft.
Sec. 24-482 to 24-497