Essex County Unincorporated
Zoning districts
20 districts, grouped by category.
Agricultural
2Commercial
6Local Business District
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Permitted uses
- 2
General Business District
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Permitted uses
- 4
Industrial
4Residential
8Mobile Home Park District
- Max height
- 45 ft
- Front setback
- 20 ft
- Permitted uses
- 1
Very Low Density Residential District
- Front setback
- 50 ft
- Permitted uses
- 10
R-2 Low Density Residential District
- Front setback
- 35 ft
- Permitted uses
- 10
Medium Density Residential District
- Min lot
- 2,000 sq ft
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 20 ft
- Max density
- 8 du/ac
- Permitted uses
- 3
General provisions
335 rules that bind every district rather than one — sign regulations, parking, floodplain and the rest of the code’s citywide chapters.
Blue line or black line prints at a preferred scale of not more than 200 feet to the inch. The plat shall be prepared by a qualified professional... boundary survey with a field error of closure within the limit of one in ten thousand.
Various sections of Article IX, including Sections 36.701, 36.710, 36.712, 36.713, 36.736, and notations.
It is the intent of this Ordinance to permit these nonconformities to continue as established prior to Ordinance adoption.
Family health care structure, temporary means pursuant to all conditions set forth in the Code of Virginia, § 15.2-2292.1, a transportable residential structure... has no more than 300 gross square feet
Family home day care (4 or less individuals) means a single-family dwelling in which one to four individuals, are received for care, protection, and guidance during only part of a twenty-four-hour day.
Family home day care (5—12 individuals) means a single-family dwelling in which more than four but less than 13 individuals, are received for care, protection and guidance during only part of a twenty-four-hour day.
Group home means a licensed residential facility in which no more than eight mentally ill, intellectually disabled, or developmentally disabled persons or no more than eight aged, infirmed or disabled persons reside
Home occupation, class A means an accessory use of a dwelling unit for gainful employment involving the provision of goods and/or services and which does not generate any additional employees or more than five customers daily.
Home occupation, class B means an accessory use of a dwelling unit for gainful employment involving the provision of goods and/or services and which generates not more than two full- or part-time employees. No more than ten customers may be allowed on the premises daily.
Kennel, private means keeping of four or more dogs that are all owned and licensed by a single owner and kept on the same property.
Micro-brewery means an establishment primarily engaged in brewing ale, beer, malt liquors, and nonalcoholic beer, with a capacity of not more than 1,000 barrels per year.
Micro-distillery means an establishment primarily engaged in distilling and blending potable liquors, including mixing them with other ingredients, with a capacity of not more than 5,000 gallons of finished product per year.
Mini-warehouse means a building designed to provide rental storage space in cubicles where each cubicle has a maximum floor area of 400 square feet.
Outdoor storage means the keeping, in other than a building, of any goods, materials, or merchandise on the same parcel for more than twenty-four consecutive hours.
Sawmill, mobile means a portable sawmill located on private property for no more than three days for the processing of timber cut only from that property or from property immediately contiguous and adjacent thereto
Short-term rental means a residential dwelling unit that is used or advertised for rent for transient occupancy in increments of fewer than 30 consecutive days.
Sign, minor means a wall or freestanding sign not exceeding three (3) square foot in area, not exceeding four feet in height, and not illuminated.
Sign, projecting means a sign other than a wall sign that is attached to or projects more than 15 inches from a building face or wall or from a structure whose primary purpose is other than the support of a sign.
Sign, wall means a sign that is in any manner affixed to any exterior wall of a building or structure and that projects not more than 15 inches from the building or structure wall
Small cell facility means a wireless facility that meets both of the following qualifications: (i) each antenna is located inside an enclosure of no more than six cubic feet in volume... (ii) all other wireless equipment associated with the facility has a cumulative volume of no more than 28 cubic feet
Source documents
The chapters of the adopted code that were retrieved, read and extracted from. Everything above traces back to one of these.