Washington County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Sec. 66-271 to 66-277
ConservationAll Washington County Unincorporated districts0
Dimensional standards
Lot
Housing
Servicing
- Applies near
- North Fork of Holston River
- Geographic extent
- All land north of the north fork of the Holston River, with slopes exceeding 20%
Uses
Permitted by right15
- Agriculture and forestry
- Agritourism
- Antennas and towers (Signal Hill)
- Cafes and restaurants
- Churches and schools
- Country general store
- Directional signs
- Ecotourism, minor
- Home occupations
- Lodges, clubs and hunting preserves
- Manufactured homes
- Parks and playgrounds
- Riding stables, bridle trails
- Single-family dwellings
- Utilities and public services
Conditional / special use15
- Animal related services
- Cemeteries
- Day care center
- Ecotourism, major
- Fire/police/rescue facilities
- Location sign
- Off-site airport safety
- Permanent manufactured home parks
- Professional offices
- Recreation, commercial
- Recreational vehicle parks and campgrounds
- Rock quarries
- Sawmills, agriculturally related businesses
- Telecommunications towers
- Water and wastewater treatment plants
Extracted standards
2 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from property line5 ft
No accessory structure may be closer than five feet to any property line.
Signage
- Maximum identification sign area8 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Identification signs, not to exceed eight square feet.
From the ordinance
Min lot area 2 acres (1 acre with public water); setback 35 ft from ROW or 60 ft from centerline; side yard 15 ft, rear 35 ft; frontage 150 ft.