Orange County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Sec 70-542, 70-543, 70-544, 70-545, 70-546
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right22
- Accessory retail or office use, not exceeding twenty percent (20%) of the gross floor area of the principal use
- Brewery
- Building materials sales establishment
- Contractor's shop
- Data center
- Distillery
- Feed, grain, and fertilizer sales
- Greenhouse, commercial
- Laboratory
- Lumberyard or sawmill
- Machine shop
- Machinery and heavy equipment sales, rental, and service
- Manufacturing, processing, assembly, and/or packaging of goods within specified categories
- Outdoor power equipment, motorcycle, all-terrain vehicle, and watercraft repair and storage
- Printing and publishing facility
- Publicly-owned recreational uses and facilities
- Self-storage facility
- Signs in accordance with sections 70-547 and 70-696 et seq.
- Temporary uses, with an approved zoning permit
- Vehicular repair, storage, and service
- Vocational training facility
- Wholesale or distribution center
Conditional / special use17
- Accessory retail or office use exceeding twenty percent (20%) but not greater than fifty percent (50%) of the gross floor area of the principal use
- Airport
- Brewery or Distillery with on-site food preparation
- Bulk fuel storage and distribution as a principal use
- Commercial recreational use
- Flea market
- Junkyard or salvage operation
- Landfill
- Manufacturing, processing, assembly, and/or packaging of goods within specified categories
- Materials recovery facility
- Mining, including stone-crushing and immediate on-site processing of mined materials
- Office/Office building as a principal use
- Place of worship
- Public utility facility
- Rendering plant, tannery, or other similar use of an odorous nature involving the production or processing of animal products
- Telecommunications tower
- Vehicular sales and rental
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Extracted standards
6 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Landscaping requirement adjacent to residential/agriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them.
Landscaping shall at least consist of two rows of evergreen trees, at least eight feet in height and located 20 feet apart and staggered.
- Minimum fence heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. adjacent to residential/agriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them.8 ft
Fencing shall be at least eight feet in height as measured from grade and shall consist of a solid material such that the industrial use is effectively screened from view.
Signage
- Maximum off-site sign heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.8 ft
The height of off-site signs shall not exceed eight feet.
- Maximum pylon sign heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.18 ft
The height of on-site pylon signs shall not exceed 18 feet.
- Maximum permanent sign area on improved lot1 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. per linear foot of building frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street.
The total area of permanent signs on any improved lot shall not exceed one square foot of sign for each linear foot of building frontage.
- Maximum permanent sign area on unimproved lot32 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
The total area of signs on any unimproved lot shall not exceed 32 square feet.
From the ordinance
Setback from any VDOT secondary road, private street, or subdivision street shall be 35 feet from the right-of-way. Minimum side or rear yard width adjacent to residential or agricultural district shall be 100 feet. Structures shall be 100 feet or less in height.