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Madison County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

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All Madison County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA10 ac
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.

Lot

Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built.
435,600 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (10 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

Uses

Conditional / special use2

Extracted standards

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

Environmental

  • Lead recovery plan

    Outdoor firearm ranges must have a plan for scheduled periodic recovery, removal, and disposal of lead.

Other

  • Indoor ventilation

    Indoor firearm ranges shall be properly and adequately ventilated and filtered at all times and comply with all applicable OSHA, NIOSH, EPA standards to mitigate lead particles in the air.

  • Liability insurance for archery ranges1,000,000 dollars

    Commercial outdoor and indoor archery ranges shall maintain general liability insurance through a Virginia licensed insurance company in an amount not less than $1,000,000.00.

  • Liability insurance for firearm ranges3,000,000 dollars

    Commercial outdoor and indoor firearm ranges shall maintain general liability insurance coverage in an amount of not less than $3,000,000.00

  • Perimeter fencing

    The entire perimeter of all outdoor firearm and archery ranges shall be fenced and signed to reduce the potential for trespass.

Signage

  • Warning sign interval100 ft

    Warning signs shall be posted around the perimeter of the range at 100-foot intervals.

From the ordinance

The minimum lot area shall be ten acres for an outdoor firearm range or three acres for an outdoor archery range. ... at a minimum, there shall be one parking space for each firing position, range official, and instructor.
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Parking requirements

{
  "instructor": "1 space",
  "range official": "1 space",
  "firing position": "1 space"
}