Stafford County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
HC Highway Corridor Overlay
Highway CorridorAll Stafford County Unincorporated districts0
Dimensional standards
Lot
Height & bulk
Servicing
- Applies near
- corridor highway
- Applies within
- 75 ft
Uses
Permitted by right1
- All uses permitted by right in the underlying district, except those specified as conditional uses
Conditional / special use13
- All conditional uses permitted in the underlying district
- Automobile graveyard
- Automobile service facility
- Car wash
- Convenience store
- Funeral home
- Hotel or motel
- Hospital
- Recreational enterprise
- Any use which includes a drive-through facility
- Theater, arena or auditorium
- Vehicle fuel sale
- Any other uses which include drive-through facilities
Extracted standards
3 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. within 75 feet of corridor highway30 ft
Thirty (30) feet for all structures within seventy-five (75) feet of the corridor highway; all other heights shall be as in the underlying district.
Other
- Minimum lot widthLot widthHow wide a lot must be, usually measured at the front setback line. reduction with shared entrance100 ft
Lot width may be reduced to one hundred (100) feet if there is a shared entrance with an adjacent property or the sole access to the corridor highway is from interparcel access through adjacent properties or a local or private access. Lots created prior to January 1, 1995, shall be exempt from the minimum lot width.
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. reduction by 50 percent50 pct
Setback may be reduced by fifty (50) percent if in compliance with subsection 28-59(f)(10).
From the ordinance
The purpose of the HC district is to protect the health, safety, and general welfare of the public by the prevention or reduction of traffic congestion, and distracting visual clutter which may result in danger on the public and private streets, a limitation is hereby placed on certain automobile oriented, fast service, quick turnover uses and related signage, which generate traffic in such amount and in such manner as to present the possibility of increased danger to the motoring public and other impediments to safe travel.