Article 13, Section 13-1-1
Dimensional standards
Servicing
- Geographic extent
- Applies to all zoning districts in Nelson County
Extracted standards
4 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Major site plan threshold - disturbed area1 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
Exceeds one acre of land-disturbed area and is commercial or industrial in nature, or is a mobile home park, or contains three (3) or more dwelling units on one lot, or is an Intentional Community
- Major site plan threshold - structure size5,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Entails the erection of a structure or structures exceeding a total of five thousand (5,000) square feet, excluding agricultural and single family residential construction, on a single parcel.
- Site plan exemptions
Construction of, or addition to, a single family dwelling on an individual lot; two-family dwelling; accessory structures to single-family dwellings; agricultural buildings; harvesting; clearing for agricultural; Residential Planned Community.
- Site plan validity period5 years
An approved Minor Site Plan or Final Site Plan shall be valid for a period of five (5) years from the date of approval
From the ordinance
A site plan shall be required for any development on any site, in all zoning districts, in any case in which construction or a change in use of the existing site increases the number of on-site parking spaces or anything that causes a visible change in the site.