Spotsylvania County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Sec. 23-6.24.1 - 23-6.24.4
Agricultural ResidentialAll Spotsylvania County Unincorporated districts0
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right17
- Accessory uses as permitted by article 5, division 3 of this chapter
- Agriculture
- Antique shop, limited to parcels fronting and/or whose chief point of ingress/egress is upon state maintained roads limited to State Route number 1 through State Route number 712
- Art and craft studio, limited to parcels fronting and/or whose chief point of ingress/egress is upon state maintained roads limited to State Route number 1 through State Route number 712
- Bed and breakfast I
- Dwelling, single-family detached
- Equestrian facility
- Expansion of a place of worship, but not expansion of the seating capacity in the sanctuary of such place of worship
- Expansion of a public school
- Game preserves, wildlife sanctuaries and fish hatchery
- Golf driving range
- Home enterprise in accordance with division 23-5.4A
- Home occupation in accordance with division 23-5.4
- Miniature golf
- Public facility/use
- Quasi-public park, playground, athletic field and related facility
- Repair service establishment limited to parcels fronting and/or whose chief point of ingress/egress is upon state maintained roads limited to State Route number 1 through State Route number 712
Conditional / special use42
- Adult day care center
- Airport, public or private
- Animal shelter
- Antique shop, inconsistent with the use allowed by-right herein
- Art and craft studio, inconsistent with the use allowed by-right herein
- Assisted living facility
- Bed and breakfast II
- Camp or recreation ground
- Cemetery
- Child care center
- Civic, social or fraternal facility
- Civic and sports arena
- Community center
- Contractor's office and shop
- Convenience store
- Country club
- Cultural center, museum or similar facilities
- Equestrian event facility
- Farm equipment and supplies sales establishment
- Fuel dispensing service
- Funeral home adjacent to a perpetual care cemetery
- Garden center
- Golf course and clubhouse
- Hospital
- Indoor commercial recreation/athletic facilities
- Kennel
- Lumber yard
- Nursing home
- Outdoor sports and recreation, commercial
- Place of worship
- Private school
- Public school
- Public utility, light
- Religious retreat facility
- Repair service establishment, inconsistent with the use allowed by-right herein
- Sawmill
- Solar energy facility
- Summer camp
- Telecommunication tower
- Veterinary hospitals/services
- Wetland mitigation bank
- Wood by-products recycling center
Accessory1
- Accessory uses as permitted by article 5, division 3 of this chapter
Extracted standards
3 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Density
- Annual division density0.33 du/acredu/acreDwelling units per acre — the number of homes allowed on each acre of land.
Residential (annual division): One (1) dwelling unit per three (3) gross acres, and the residential lot yield from any parent parcel which existed on February 12, 2002 shall not exceed six (6) lots.
- Family division density0.5 du/acredu/acreDwelling units per acre — the number of homes allowed on each acre of land.
Residential (family division): One (1) dwelling unit per two (2) gross acres.
- Maximum lots from parent parcel (subdivision)10 lots
The lot yield from any parent parcel existing as of February 12, 2002 shall not exceed ten (10) lots including the parent parcel.
From the ordinance
The purpose of the rural (Ru) district is to protect and maintain the rural character of the county. Residential (subdivision): One (1) dwelling unit per three (3) gross acres. Non-residential: Floor area ratio of 0.1.