Article 5, §§ 175-5.2 through 175-5.8
Dimensional standards
Lot
Height & bulk
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right45
- Accessory uses
- Agriculture
- Alternative support structures
- Aquaculture
- Bed-and-breakfast establishment
- Cemeteries
- Churches
- Cluster development of single-family dwellings
- Dairying
- Data poles
- Day-care centers
- Drainage, erosion and flood control facilities
- Dwelling, single-family
- Dwelling, two-family
- Facilities for grading, packing, marketing and storage of agricultural, horticultural, and forestal products
- Fire stations
- Forestry activities and facilities
- Game preserves and conservation areas
- General farming
- Golf clubs and courses
- Home occupations
- Horticulture
- Hunting blinds and stands
- Hunting clubs
- Kennels
- Livestock/fowl horse penning and stables
- Lodges
- Manufactured homes located on individual lots
- Museums
- Nurseries and greenhouses
- Post offices and other governmental buildings
- Private piers, docks and ramps
- Professional offices within occupant's dwelling
- Recycling location (dropoff) with a total capacity of 10 cubic yards or less
- Rescue and police stations
- Schools
- Short-term vacation rental
- Signs
- Silviculture
- Subdivisions, major
- Subdivisions, minor
- Tennis clubs
- Tractor and farm equipment sales rental and repair
- Utility use, minor
- Wayside stands, roadside stands, and wayside markets
Conditional / special use29
- Auto service (owner-operator only)
- Aviation facility
- Conditional sewage disposal permits granted by the Virginia Department of Health for less than year-round occupancy
- Fairgrounds, carnivals
- Farmer's market
- Health care facilities
- Home enterprise
- Light manufacturing and cottage and craft industries
- Manufacture of cement and stone products
- Manufactured homes, individual, which are not permitted by § 175-5.2
- Manufactured home parks
- Office buildings
- Parks
- Playgrounds
- Radio, television, and other communications towers and facilities
- Recreational facilities
- Recycling location (dropoff) with a total capacity in excess of 10 cubic yards
- Rehabilitation and group homes or centers
- Retail general, and convenience stores and shops, including storage facilities
- Restaurants
- Sand and gravel operations
- Sewage treatment systems (private)
- Shellfish and finfish processing, packing and storage facilities
- Telecommunication towers
- Event venue
- Transfer stations (publicly owned or operated)
- Travel trailers (licensed) for temporary habitation
- Utility use, major
- Veterinary hospitals with or without kennels
Accessory1
Extracted standards
8 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- ConditionalConditional useAllowed only after a discretionary approval — usually a public hearing and a board vote. manufactured homeManufactured homeA dwelling built in a factory to a federal standard and transported to the site. doubled setbacksSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
The minimum lot size and width as well as the front, side and rear yards setback shall be doubled for the respective zoning districts, and the maximum height allowed will be 25 feet measured from the bottom to the top of the manufactured home.
- Corner lot front definition
Of the two sides of a corner lot, the front shall be deemed to be the shorter of the two sides fronting on streets.
- Corner lot side street setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.40 ft
The minimum side yard on the side facing the side street shall be 40 feet or more for main buildings, accessory buildings and piers.
- Freestanding canopy setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from right-of-way15 ft
Freestanding canopies over commercial fuel pumps shall be setback a minimum of 15 feet from the edge of the right-of-way.
- Lot size exception for family member
The minimum lot area for a single-family dwelling or manufactured home shall be one acre, provided such lot is subdivided for the purpose of development or placement of such structures for occupancy by a member of the immediate family of the property owner.
- Permanent foundation for manufactured homesManufactured homeA dwelling built in a factory to a federal standard and transported to the site.
Manufactured homes shall be provided with a permanent foundation meeting the requirements of the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code.
- Sewage treatment systems outside floodplainFloodplainLand expected to flood at a stated frequency, where building carries extra conditions.
Sewage treatment systems (private) where the subject lot or parcel shall be located outside the area identified by the Floodplain Management Ordinance of Mathews County as being subject to inundation by waters of the one-hundred-year flood event.
- Skirting for manufactured homesManufactured homeA dwelling built in a factory to a federal standard and transported to the site.
Skirting shall be provided so as to conceal from view the frame, axles, wheels, crawl space and all utility connections.
From the ordinance
The minimum lot area for each principal permitted use shall be 2.5 acres; buildings set back 50 feet from right-of-way; side yard 10 feet; rear yard 50 feet; height up to 50 feet.