Rockingham County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Sec. 17-703.03
Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
- Minimum landscaping
- 3%
Extracted standards
5 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Maximum contiguous parking spaces without island12 spaces
No more than 12 parking spaces shall be contiguous without a landscape island.
- Minimum landscape island area140 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Each landscape island shall be at least 140 square feet in area.
- Minimum parkingMinimum parkingThe number of off-street spaces a development must provide before it may open. area landscaping percentage3 pct
Not less than 3% of the parking area shall be devoted to landscape islands or other landscaping internal to the parking area.
- Shrub planting ratio
For each 150 square feet of landscaped area, at least three shrubs shall be planted.
- Tree planting ratio
For each 150 square feet of landscaped area, at least one deciduous tree with a caliper of not less than 2 inches shall be planted.
From the ordinance
When fifteen (15) or more parking spaces are required under section 17-702, not less than three (3) percent of the parking area shall be devoted to landscape islands or other landscaping internal to the parking area.