§ 180-51
Dimensional standards
Density
Height & bulk
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right3
Extracted standards
11 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Density
- Maximum density6 du/acdu/acreDwelling units per acre — the number of homes allowed on each acre of land.
The overall density of residences shall not exceed six units per gross acre of land within the development.
Lighting
- Dusk-to-dawn lighting
Planned residential developments shall be provided with adequate dusk-to-dawn lighting.
Other
- Active recreation area per dwelling unitDwelling unitOne independent home: its own kitchen, bathroom and entrance.30 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
A minimum of 30 square feet for each dwelling unit in the PRD shall be developed for active recreational use.
- Direct access to paved state road
All planned residential developments must have direct access to a paved road in the state highway system.
- Minimum common open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted.25 pct
A minimum of 25% of the total land area of a planned residential development shall be reserved as common open space designed for use by the development residents.
- Minimum contiguous acreage50 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
Each PRD shall contain a minimum of 50 contiguous acres of usable land.
- Minimum distance between structures
The minimum distances between any structure or group of structures shall not be less than 1/2 of the combined height of the two structures at their closest point.
- No minimum lot size, setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line., lot widthLot widthHow wide a lot must be, usually measured at the front setback line., or max coverage
There shall be no minimum lot size, no minimum setback, no minimum lot width and no maximum percentage of lot coverage.
- Minimum distance from residential to nonresidential structures300 ft
All residential structures shall be at least 300 feet away from nonresidential structures, unless the Board finds that screening is adequate to permit their closer location, in which event the three-hundred-foot requirement may be waived by the Board. In no event, however, may such structures be located closer than 60 feet from one another.
- Street construction standard
All streets within the development, except those roads constructed or utilized exclusively for maintenance purposes, shall be paved and shall be constructed to such standards that will enable them to be accepted into the secondary road system of the Virginia Department of Highways and Transportation.
- Underground utility lines
All utility lines shall be placed underground within the development.
From the ordinance
A planned residential development shall be comprised of two or more of the following residential dwelling types (single-family detached, single-family attached, multifamily) and shall demonstrate compliance or ability to comply with the following standards and guidelines.