Page County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Article VII, §125-45
Dimensional standards
Servicing
- Geographic extent
- All districts in Page County Unincorporated
Extracted standards
3 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Change of nonconformingNonconformingLawful when built, but not compliant with the rules now in force; usually allowed to continue but not to expand. use requires special exception
A nonconforming use may, by special exception, be changed to another nonconforming use, provided that the governing body shall find that the proposed use is equally appropriate or more appropriate in the zoning district than the existing nonconforming use.
- Discontinuance period for nonconformingNonconformingLawful when built, but not compliant with the rules now in force; usually allowed to continue but not to expand. use of land2 years
Wherever a nonconforming use of land has been discontinued for a period of two years, such use shall not thereafter be reestablished.
- Maximum extension of nonconformingNonconformingLawful when built, but not compliant with the rules now in force; usually allowed to continue but not to expand. use of land40 pct
No such nonconforming use shall be enlarged or increased, nor extended to occupy a greater area of land than 40% more land than was owned or leased by the user at the effective date
From the ordinance
No such nonconforming use shall be enlarged or increased, nor extended to occupy a greater area of land than 40% more land than was owned or leased by the user at the effective date of adoption or amendment of this chapter. Wherever a nonconforming use of land has been discontinued for a period of two years, such use shall not thereafter be reestablished.