Radford, Virginia · General provision
Sec. 120.1-155 through 120.1-158
Cluster HousingAll Radford districts0
Dimensional standards
Lot
Height & bulk
Housing
Servicing
- Applies near
- R-2 or R-3 districts
- Geographic extent
- Any land within the City of Radford zoned R-2 or R-3 Residential Single-FamilySingle-family dwellingOne dwelling unit on its own lot, usually detached from its neighbours.
Uses
Permitted by right2
Extracted standards
4 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Approval type
Approval by special use permit as defined by Article IX.
- Minimum development size2 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
Minimum development size: 2 acres.
- Open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. alternative
Open space: Minimum of 15% of development size, or one square foot of open space for each square foot of reduction in lot size below 9,000 sq ft, whichever is greater.
Front yards adjacent to public street use underlying setback; side and rear yards adjacent to existing residential use underlying setbacks.
From the ordinance
The Cluster Housing Overlay is created to encourage and allow flexibility in site design ... Minimum lot size: 4,500 square feet. Minimum frontage: 50 feet. Open space: Minimum of 15 percent of development size.