Shenandoah County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
§ 165-173
Dimensional standards
Extracted standards
4 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Density
- Maximum disturbance zone per one-mile radius50 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
Large-scale solar facilities shall be limited to 50 acres of disturbance zone per one-mile radius
Fencing & walls
- Minimum security fence heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.9 ft
Large-scale solar facilities shall be enclosed by security fencing not less than nine feet in height
- Razor/barbed wire prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance. on fence
The fence shall not be topped with razor/barbed wire.
Other
- Maximum solar panel heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.15 ft
The panels of large-scale solar facilities shall not exceed a height of 15 feet above-ground level
From the ordinance
The panels of large-scale solar facilities shall not exceed a height of 15 feet above-ground level unless otherwise permitted for an agrophotovoltaic facility.