Loudoun County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Section 6.01
Stream CorridorAll Loudoun County Unincorporated districts0
Dimensional standards
Servicing
- Applies near
- rivers and streams
- Applies within
- 50 ft
- Geographic extent
- Applies to river and stream corridors, including scenic rivers, Potomac River, Bull Run, Broad Run, and all other rivers and streams, measured outward from the Ordinary High Water Mark.
Uses
Permitted by right6
- single-family dwelling (existing legal lot)
- accessory driveway or parking area
- detached garage
- bus station or transit shelter (<=1,000 sq ft disturbance)
- structure accessory to permitted use
- parking for publicly accessible trails or passive recreation or community open space
Prohibited2
- diversion of scenic river (except public utility or road crossing)
- motorized recreation
Extracted standards
4 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Maximum land disturbance for bus station/transit shelterShelterTemporary accommodation for people without housing, usually with support services.1,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Bus stations or Transit or bus shelter structures requiring 1,000 square feet of land disturbance or less
- Maximum footprint increase for existing structures25 pct
additions must not increase the total footprint of the structure by more than 25%
- Riparian Protection Buffer Width50 ft
The addition of the required Riparian Protection Buffer width (50 feet) to the Resource Area Width may result in a total RSCR width that is greater than the Minimum Buffer Width.
- Scenic river diversion prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
The permanent or temporary diversion of any Scenic River is prohibited, except as required for any public utility or for any road crossing identified in the Countywide Transportation Plan.
From the ordinance
The addition of the required Riparian Protection Buffer width (50 feet) to the Resource Area Width may result in a total RSCR width that is greater than the Minimum Buffer Width.