Louisa County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Sec. 86-292 to 86-302
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right35
- Agricultural activity passive
- Forestry
- Accessory dwelling unit
- Cottage
- Single-family dwelling, attached
- Single-family dwelling, detached
- Temporary family health care structure
- Two-family dwelling
- Civic use
- Club
- Cultural services
- Post office
- Religious assembly
- Utility service, minor
- Camp
- Campground
- Commercial indoor amusement
- Food truck
- General office
- Golf course
- Home occupation, class A
- Hotel
- Laundry
- Licensed medical facility
- Marina
- Medical office
- Personal improvement services
- Personal services
- Restaurant
- Short-term rental of dwelling—Subject to 86-114
- Store, general
- Store, neighborhood convenience
- Amateur radio tower
- Cemetery, private
- Solar generation facility, small-scale
Conditional / special use31
- Agricultural operation
- Stable, commercial
- Stable, private
- Educational facility, primary/secondary
- Public assembly
- Assisted living facility
- Clinic
- Commercial indoor entertainment
- Commercial indoor sports and recreation
- Commercial outdoor entertainment
- Commercial outdoor sports and recreation
- Day care
- Day care center
- Family day care home
- Financial institution
- Grocery store
- Life care facility
- Mini-warehouse
- Nursing home
- Parking facility
- Retail sales of controlled substances
- School, private
- Shooting range, indoor
- Special occasion facility
- Specialty shop
- Studio, fine arts
- Veterinary hospital/clinic
- Outdoor gathering
- Solar generation facility, minor scale
- Solar generation facility, utility scale
- Temporary conditional uses permitted under section 86-91
Extracted standards
4 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Two points of access for areas over 50 dwellings
contains at least two points of access for every area containing over 50 dwellings.
- AgriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them. buildings setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from adjacent property line250 ft
Any permanent, temporary, or mobile agricultural buildings allowed under agricultural activities passive may not be kept on lots or areas which are closer than 250 feet to any adjacent property line.
- Minimum contiguous acreage for districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.30 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
The resort development shall apply only to land having a minimum of 30 contiguous acres under common ownership or control.
- Minimum permanent open area25 pct
leaving as permanent open area not less than 25 percent of the total acreage
From the ordinance
In the resort development district (RD), the minimum lot area shall be 40,000 square feet for a lot served by individual water and sewage systems. Setback 50 ft from right-of-way if individual systems. Height: single-family 40 ft max. Side yard 10 ft, rear yard 25 ft. 25% open space required.