Sec 70-301 to 70-310
Dimensional standards
Lot
Height & bulk
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right17
- Agriculture
- Agritourism
- Bed and breakfast inn
- Short-term lodging facility
- Single-family dwelling
- Two-family dwelling
- Manufactured home
- Place of worship
- Cemetery or graveyard
- Sign
- Farm enterprise
- Farm stand
- Wayside stand
- Farmer's market (up to 4,000 sq ft)
- Temporary uses
- Accessory apartment
- Commercial kitchen or smokehouse
Conditional / special use24
- Agricultural equipment sales or service
- Airport
- Bed and breakfast inn with restaurant
- Boarding kennel
- Camp, campground or recreational vehicle park
- Fairground
- Elder care center, child day care center, or nursery school
- Livestock auction or farmer's market >4,000 sq ft
- Manufactured home park
- Mine or quarry
- Office not exceeding 4,000 sq ft
- Cultural use
- Commercial recreational use
- Institutional use
- Public garage
- Public use (school, park, library, fire/rescue)
- Retail store not exceeding 4,000 sq ft
- Restaurant accessory to agritourism
- Sanitary landfill
- Veterinary service
- Outdoor power equipment repair
- Public utility facility
- Pyrotechnics testing/manufacturing
- Rural retreat
Extracted standards
8 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure rear setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.10 ft
The minimum rear yard width for each accessory structure shall be ten feet.
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure side setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.10 ft
The minimum side yard width for each accessory structure shall be ten feet.
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from road with ROW <50 ft85 ft
The setback from any VDOT secondary road, private street, or subdivision street with a right-of-way less than 50 feet in width shall be 85 feet from the centerline of the road.
- Maximum guestrooms for rural retreat50 guestrooms
A rural retreat may be permitted an additional guestroom for every two (2) full acres above thirty (30) acres, not to exceed a total of fifty (50) guestrooms.
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from shoreline50 ft
The setback for any new dwelling shall be a minimum of 50 feet from the shoreline of any body of water.
- Temporary sales hours
Special events are permitted only between the hours of 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., Sunday through Thursday; and 7:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m., Friday and Saturday.
Signage
- Maximum total sign area32 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
The total area of permanent signs shall be 32 square feet or less.
- Maximum sign heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.8 ft
Monument signs and pylon signs shall be eight feet or less in height.
From the ordinance
In the agricultural zoning district, the minimum lot area shall be two acres, except in cluster developments subject to article VI, or manufactured home parks subject to article VII.