James City County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Sec. 24-535.1 to 24-535.9
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right17
- Accessory buildings and structures
- Accessory uses, as defined in section 24-2 and including privately owned uses that are either limited to a fully enclosed building and encompassing less than 25 percent of the floor area of the public use or are a free-standing building or area covering less than ten percent of the overall land area
- General Agriculture, dairying, forestry, general farming and specialized farming, excluding the raising of hogs, but not commercial livestock or poultry operations which require a special use permit in the General Agricultural District, A-1
- Governmental or non-profit offices under 30,000 square feet
- Mobile food vending vehicles in accordance with section 24-49
- Neighborhood resource centers
- Non-profit medical clinics or offices under 30,000 square feet
- Off-street parking as required by section 24-53
- Petroleum storage on a farm as an accessory use and not for resale
- Preserves and conservation areas for protection of natural features and wildlife
- Public meeting halls under 30,000 square feet
- Rest homes for fewer than 15 adults
- Storage and repair of heavy equipment as accessory use to a farm
- Timbering in accordance with section 24-43
- Water impoundments, new or expansion of, less than 20 acres and with dam heights of less than 15 feet
- Wayside stands for seasonal sale of agricultural products, limited in area to 500 square feet
- Wireless communications facilities that utilize alternative mounting structures, or are building mounted, or are camouflaged, and comply with division 6, Wireless Communications Facilities
Conditional / special use33
- Adult day care centers
- Airports and landing fields, helistops or heliports and accessory uses
- Campgrounds
- Cemeteries and memorial gardens, not accessory to a church or other place of worship
- Community recreation facilities, public, including parks, playgrounds, clubhouses, boating facilities, swimming pools, ball fields, tennis courts, and other similar recreation facilities
- Electrical generation facilities (public or private), electrical substations with a capacity of 5,000 kilovolt amperes or more and electrical transmission lines capable of transmitting 69 kilovolts or more
- Farmers markets, temporary or seasonal
- Fire stations or rescue squad stations, volunteer or otherwise
- Flea markets, temporary or seasonal
- Golf courses and country clubs
- Governmental institutions
- Governmental or non-profit offices over 30,000 square feet
- Horse show areas, polo fields
- Hospitals
- Marinas, docks, and waterfront recreation facilities
- Mental health facilities
- Non-profit medical clinics or offices over 30,000 square feet
- Nursing homes and facilities for the residence and/or care of the aged
- Post offices
- Public meeting halls over 30,000 square feet
- Publicly owned operational centers including equipment storage/warehouses
- Radio and television stations or towers
- Rest homes for 15 or more adults
- Retreat facilities
- Riding stables
- Sanitary landfills in accordance with section 24-40, waste disposal or publicly owned solid waste container sites
- Schools, libraries, museums and similar institutions
- Solid waste transfer stations
- Telephone exchanges and telephone switching stations
- Utility substations
- Water impoundments, new or expansion of, 20 acres or more or with dam heights of 15 feet or more
- Wayside stands for sale of agricultural products over 500 square feet in area
- Yacht clubs and marinas and commercial and service facilities accessory thereto
Extracted standards
5 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Accessory structures
- Maximum accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.45 ft
In no case shall an accessory building be more than 45 feet in height.
- Maximum accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. within 15 feet of lot line1 story
No accessory building which is within 15 feet of any lot line shall be more than one story high.
Other
- Corner lot side street setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.35 ft
No structures shall be located closer than 35 feet to the side street.
- Minimum lot widthLot widthHow wide a lot must be, usually measured at the front setback line. at setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. line100 ft
Lots of up to 43,560 square feet shall have a minimum width at the setback line of 100 feet. Lots of 43,560 square feet or more shall have a minimum width at the setback line of 150 feet.
- Minimum lot widthLot widthHow wide a lot must be, usually measured at the front setback line. at setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. line for large lots150 ft
Lots of 43,560 square feet or more shall have a minimum width at the setback line of 150 feet.
From the ordinance
Structures shall be located a minimum of 35 feet from any street right-of-way which is 50 feet or greater in width. The minimum side yard for each main structure shall be 15 feet. Each main structure shall have a rear yard of 35 feet or more. Structures may be erected up to two stories and shall not exceed 35 feet in height from grade.
Use details
{
"dropped_conditions": {
"permitted_uses": [
"Communications facilities (public or private) in compliance with article II, division 6 of this chapter"
],
"conditional_uses": [
"Communications facilities (public or private) in compliance with article II, division 6 of this chapter",
"Railroad facilities including tracks, bridges, switching yards and stations. However, spur lines, which are to serve and are accessory to existing or proposed development adjacent to existing railroad right-of-ways, and track and safety improvements in existing railroad right-of-ways, are permitted generally and shall not require a special use permit",
"Transmission pipelines (public or private), including pumping stations and accessory storage, for natural gas, propane gas, petroleum products, chemicals, slurry coal and any other gases, liquids or solids. However, private extensions or connections to existing pipelines, which are intended to serve an individual residential or commercial customer and which are accessory to existing or proposed development, are permitted generally and shall not require a special use permit",
"Water facilities (public or private), 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. However, the following are permitted generally and shall not require a special use permit: 1. Private connections to existing mains that are intended to serve an individual customer and are accessory to existing or proposed development, with no additional connections to be made to the line; 2. Distribution lines and local facilities within a development, including pump stations"
]
}
}