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Warren County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

§ 180-56.1

TimberingAll Warren County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA20 ac
Plan view of the district’s stated lot requirements. Solid line: the property line. Dashed: the setback lines the ordinance imposes; a building must stay inside the tinted envelope. Drawn from the figures extracted below — illustrative, not a survey.

Lot

Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built.
871,200 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (20 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

Uses

Permitted by right2

Extracted standards

6 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.

Other

  • Bond required for private subdivision road access

    A bond or irrevocable letter of credit issued by a bank or savings and loan association shall be posted for any timbering or logging operation which uses for access a private subdivision road not in the state highway system.

  • Undisturbed buffer width25 ft

    A twenty-five-foot-undisturbed buffer shall be maintained along the perimeter of the property being timbered or logged, where it borders residentially zoned property.

  • Minimum acreage in residential zones20 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.

    The minimum acreage required for a logging operation in a residentially zoned area is 20 contiguous acres, under a single ownership.

  • Preharvest plan required

    The cutting or logging of any trees for commercial purposes shall not be conducted without the submission of a preharvest plan, approved by the Virginia Department of Forestry and prepared by a professional forester.

  • Streamside management zone width for intermittent streams30 ft

    Streamside management zones shall be no less than 30 feet from an intermittent stream as identified by the United States Geological Survey.

  • Streamside management zone width for perennial streams50 ft

    Streamside management zones shall be no less than 50 feet in width on each side of a perennial stream.

From the ordinance

The minimum acreage required for a logging operation in a residentially zoned area is 20 contiguous acres, under a single ownership, and defined as real estate devoted to forest use under Chapter § 58.1-3230 of the Code of Virginia as amended.
§ 180-56.1