Sec. 90-101 through Sec. 90-111
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right20
- Agricultural uses involving tilling of the soil, the raising of crops, horticulture, forestry and gardening
- Detached single-family dwelling on an individual lot
- Public school
- Church, church bulletin board, parish house, convent, monastery
- Park, playground
- Wildlife preserve, conservation area
- Home occupations: Office
- Home occupation child care
- Volunteer fire or rescue squad
- General store with business sign
- Mobile home on farm operation
- Mobile home as a temporary use during construction of a conventionally built residence
- Mobile home or travel trailer as a temporary use during construction of a commercial, industrial or public structure
- Offstreet parking as required by this chapter
- Public utility distribution facilities and temporary structure, with a floor area of 100 square feet or less, used in support thereof for a period of 12 months or less
- Aquaculture
- Manufactured houses at least 19 feet in width and placed in a manner which renders the unit no longer transportable
- Temporary outdoor Christmas tree sales and holiday items
- Temporary outdoor Virginia legal fireworks sales
- Animal boarding place, private, on parcels of more than one acre in size
Conditional / special use56
- Airport, private landing area
- Riding school, riding stable
- Lodge, hunting club, yacht club, golf course, country club
- Small boat landing with repair facilities
- Cemetery
- Mobile home park
- Service station, public garage, repair shop
- Lumber building, fencing and landscaping supplies and equipment
- Assembly hall
- Custom cabinet-making shop, furniture sales and repair shop, reupholstery shop
- Processing plant for agricultural and forest products
- Home professional and trade offices
- Sawmill
- Planing mill
- Public utility generating station, transmission line and tower other than normal distribution facilities, pipe, meter, railroad, water and sewerage installation, compressor station, measurement station, regulator station
- Business sign
- Directional sign
- Home occupation sign
- Mobile home located on an individual lot
- Horse racetrack, polo field
- Extraction of natural resources
- Recreation structure and uses related to outdoor recreation, commercial and noncommercial recreational vehicle park
- Animal hospital, animal boarding place, veterinary service
- Sanitary landfill
- Golf driving range, miniature golf course
- Boys' home with a resident population not exceeding 20
- Gun club with or without indoor or outdoor shooting range, rifle range, skeet shooting range
- Radio-controlled model airplane club
- Commercial child care center
- Home for the aged
- Nursing home
- Private school, private kindergarten, nursery school
- Structure for exhibits and demonstrations operated by nonprofit organizations
- Day camp, boarding camp
- Buildings or uses primarily for federal, state, county or local governmental purposes except public school, park or playground
- Livestock market
- Wayside stand for display and sale of farm products
- Tire retreading or recapping in conjunction with a service station, public garage or repair shop
- Gift shop
- Storage of explosives in conformance with all applicable federal and state regulations
- Agricultural equipment sales and service
- Asphalt mixing plant
- Corporate training facility with overnight accommodations
- Tree stump landfills
- Processing plant for aquaculture products
- Storage of portable toilets
- Turkey shoot
- Retail sale of firearms
- Plumbing and electrical supply business with storage under separate cover
- Embroidery operation
- Family day care home (large)
- Cottage industry home occupation on a parcel of five acres or more in area
- Home occupation within an accessory building
- Bingo hall
- Vehicle impound facility
- Tier 2 battery energy storage system
Accessory3
- Garages, carports, porches and stoops attached to the main building
- Contained or fenced animal and poultry operations
- Roof- or ground-mounted small solar energy facility or large-scale solar energy facility
Extracted standards
30 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Distance from main building for 35-foot accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure150 ft
an accessory structure may be erected up to a height of 35 feet when located at least 150 feet from the main building and at least 100 feet from any party lot line.
- Distance from party lot line for 35-foot accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure100 ft
an accessory structure may be erected up to a height of 35 feet when located at least 150 feet from the main building and at least 100 feet from any party lot line.
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. when located at least 150 feet from main building and 100 feet from party lot line35 ft
an accessory structure may be erected up to a height of 35 feet when located at least 150 feet from the main building and at least 100 feet from any party lot line.
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. within 20 feet of party lot line1 storiesStoreysHabitable floor levels. Whether a basement or attic counts is defined by the local code.
No accessory building which is within 20 feet of any party lot line shall be more than one story high.
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from property line5 ft
No accessory structure may be closer than five feet to any property line.
- Christmas tree sales removal date
All Christmas tree products... shall be removed no later than January 15.
- Christmas tree sales start date
Sales shall not begin before November 15th
- Fireworks sales removal date
All Virginia legal fireworks products... shall be removed no later than July 15.
- Fireworks sales start date
Sales shall not begin before June 15
- Maximum brood goats or sheep per acreacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.4 head/acreacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
Brood goats or sheep: four or less per acre per tract, not to exceed 75 head.
- Maximum brood goats or sheep per tract75 head
Brood goats or sheep: four or less per acre per tract, not to exceed 75 head.
- Maximum beef, dairy cattle or livestock per acreacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.1 head/acreacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
Beef, dairy cattle or livestock: one or less per acre per tract, not to exceed 125 head
- Maximum beef, dairy cattle or livestock per tract125 head
Beef, dairy cattle or livestock: one or less per acre per tract, not to exceed 125 head
- Maximum embroidery operation employees2 employees
The operation can employ no more that two employees, including the owner.
- Maximum embroidery machine heads2 heads
The use is limited to machines with no more than two heads.
- Maximum embroidery operation area1,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
The use is limited to a portion of the main structure or an outbuilding not exceeding 15 percent of the main structure or 1,000 square feet including storage areas.
- Maximum fowl and poultry per tract250 birds
Fowl and poultry: not to exceed 250 birds per tract.
- Maximum hogs or swine sows3 sows
Hogs or swine: three or less sows, a boar and litters on a tract at least ten acres in size
- Maximum length to width ratio4 ratio
the length thereof shall not exceed four times the width.
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. for public or semipublic buildings60 ft
A public or semipublic building such as a school or church may be erected to a height of 60 feet from the grade, provided that required front, side and rear yards shall be increased one foot for each foot in height over 35 feet.
- Maximum rabbits per tract200 rabbits
Rabbits: not to exceed 200 per tract.
- Minimum distance of cattle/livestock containment from adjoining dwelling150 ft
provided any animal containment or fenced area is a distance of at least 150 feet from the nearest adjoining dwelling.
- Minimum corner lot widthLot widthHow wide a lot must be, usually measured at the front setback line. at setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. line200 ft
Each corner lot shall have a minimum width at the setback line of 200 feet or more.
- Minimum distance between houses on farms of 100+ acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.100 ft
the placement of houses will be no closer than 100 feet apart.
- Minimum farm size for second dwelling100 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
On farms of 100 acres or more, two single-family residential structures may be constructed on the same property.
- Minimum distance of hog/swine containment from adjoining dwelling500 ft
provided any animal containment or fenced area is a distance of at least 500 feet from the nearest adjoining dwelling.
- Minimum tract size for hogs or swine10 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
Hogs or swine: three or less sows, a boar and litters on a tract at least ten acres in size
- Minimum manufactured house width19 ft
Manufactured houses at least 19 feet in width and placed in a manner which renders the unit no longer transportable.
- Minimum temporary parking spaces for Christmas tree/fireworks sales5 spaces
Sufficient area shall be set aside to provide a minimum of five temporary offstreet parking spaces.
- Maximum parapet wall heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. above building4 ft
Parapet walls may be up to four feet above the height of the building on which the walls rest.
From the ordinance
R-A residential agricultural district... minimum lot area for permitted uses shall be five acres... structures shall be 75 feet or more from any street right-of-way... minimum side yard for each main structure shall be 15 feet... rear yard of 35 feet or more... buildings may be erected up to 35 feet in height.