Sussex County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Sec. 34-932
Uses
Permitted by right28
- home occupation Type II
- Art, handicraft, music, writing, photography, or similar studios
- Computer and home typing services
- Direct sales product distribution as long as products are directly delivered to the customer and not to the location of the home occupation
- Dressmaker, seamstress, tailor
- Babysitting (up to five children)
- Hair cutting and styling consisting (up to one customer chair)
- Non-principal offices of physician, dentist, veterinarian, insurance agent, real estate or similar profession
- Offices of accountant, architect, engineer, surveyor, land planner, soil scientist, lawyer, income tax preparer, minister, priest, rabbi, member of a religious order, psychotherapist, counselor, management consultant or similar professional
- Preparation of food for off-premises catering
- Telephone sales, order-taking, and answering services
- Tutor
- Office for a small contractor business, not including storage of equipment except for personal lawn care and similar supplies and equipment typically used and maintained by other residents in the surrounding neighborhood, so as not to change the appearance of the neighborhood
- Carpentry shop
- Contractor businesses (with storage of equipment within enclosed building and/or shielded from view from adjacent property and public rights-of-way, and delivery of materials directly to the customer)
- Electronic sales and service
- Facilities for service and repair of agricultural equipment and incidental sale of parts and supplies
- Glazier's or painter shop
- Heating, plumbing, or air conditioning services (with storage of equipment within enclosed building and/or shielded from view from adjacent property and public rights-of-way)
- Landscape and horticultural services
- Personal transportation services, including, but not limited to, limousine service, taxi service, medical transportation services, and independent truck driver
- Machine shop/metal working provided all is completed in a completely enclosed building
- Massage, physical therapy
- Repair of small appliances, small engines and limited machining of small parts, office machines, cameras, and similar small items
- Repair or servicing of small internal combustion engines used in lawn mowers, edgers, hedge trimmers, power saws and similar yard maintenance equipment inside enclosed structure
- Retail sales of agricultural, craft and woodworking products principally produced on-site
- Waterman's operation (with on-premises wholesale and retail sale prohibited)
- Wood working and furniture repair, upholstery and cabinet making
Conditional / special use4
Extracted standards
4 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Accessory structures
- Maximum accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. floor area30 pct
An accessory building or structure may be used with the home occupation, provided that the total floor area devoted to the home occupation in the accessory structure and dwelling unit does not exceed thirty percent (30%) of the finished floor area of the dwelling unit.
Other
- Customer contact limited
Customer contact on the premises shall be limited to a level that is consistent with and does not impose a negative impacts on other dwellings in the area.
- Maximum non-resident employees2 persons
Up to two persons who are not a permanent resident of the dwelling may be engaged or employed in the home occupation.
- Maximum storage area10 pct
Storage of goods or products shall not exceed ten percent of the finished floor area devoted to the home occupation.
From the ordinance
Type II home occupations are permitted in the following zoning districts: A-1, R-E and R-R. ... (b) Carpentry shop. ...
Use details
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"dropped_conditions": {
"permitted_uses": [
"Motor vehicle display for purposes of sale of up to five vehicles per year (no more than one vehicle may be displayed at any time)"
]
}
}