Spotsylvania County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Sec. 23-6.24.4
Dimensional standards
Density
- Maximum density
- 0.33 du/acredu/acreDwelling units per acre — the number of homes allowed on each acre of land.
- Lot area per dwelling unitLot area per dwelling unitLand required for each home — the same limit as du/acre, expressed per unit instead of per acre.
- 130,680 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (3 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)
Height & bulk
Uses
Permitted by right17
- Accessory uses as permitted by article 5, division 3
- Agriculture
- Antique shop (limited to parcels on State Routes 1-712)
- Art and craft studio (limited to parcels on State Routes 1-712)
- Bed and breakfast I
- Dwelling, single-family detached
- Equestrian facility
- Expansion of a place of worship (not seating capacity)
- Expansion of a public school
- Game preserves, wildlife sanctuaries and fish hatchery
- Golf driving range
- Home enterprise
- Home occupation
- Miniature golf
- Public facility/use
- Quasi-public park, playground, athletic field
- Repair service establishment (limited to parcels on State Routes 1-712)
Conditional / special use42
- Adult day care center
- Airport, public or private
- Animal shelter
- Antique shop (inconsistent with by-right)
- Art and craft studio (inconsistent with by-right)
- 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
- Equestrian event facility
- Farm equipment and supplies sales
- Fuel dispensing service
- Funeral home adjacent to 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 by-right)
- Sawmill
- Solar energy facility
- Summer camp
- Telecommunication tower
- Veterinary hospitals/services
- Wetland mitigation bank
- Wood by-products recycling center
Extracted standards
4 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Density
- 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 (annual division)6 lots
the residential lot yield from any parent parcel which existed on February 12, 2002 shall not exceed six (6) lots.
- 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.
Height
- AgriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them. building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.
Agricultural buildings and structures: None
From the ordinance
Residential (subdivision): One (1) dwelling unit per three (3) gross acres and the lot yield from any parent parcel existing as of February 12, 2002 shall not exceed ten (10) lots including the parent parcel.