Tazewell
Zoning districts
11 districts, grouped by category.
Commercial
2Industrial
1Residential
6Residential, Limited R-1
- Min lot
- 7,500 sq ft
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 35 ft
- Permitted uses
- 12
Residential, General R-2
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 25 ft
- Permitted uses
- 9
Residential, R-3
- Min lot
- 43,560 sq ft (1 ac)
- Max height
- 40 ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
- Permitted uses
- 12
Residential R-4
- Min lot
- 43,560 sq ft (1 ac)
- Max height
- 40 ft
- Front setback
- 15 ft
- Permitted uses
- 12
RP-2 District
- Max density
- 4 du/ac
RP-3 District
- Max density
- 12 du/ac
General provisions
36 rules that bind every district rather than one — sign regulations, parking, floodplain and the rest of the code’s citywide chapters.
The site shall be a minimum of 2,000 square feet excluding vehicular access areas.
No equipment or process shall be used in a home occupation which creates noise in excess of sixty (60) dB(A) measured at the property line... The maximum floor area permitted for a home occupation shall be ten (10) percent of the finished floor area of the dwelling unit.
Setback. The minimum distance by which any building or structure, or fence in excess of four (4) feet must be separated from the front lot line.
Home occupation. A sign not exceeding four (4) square feet in area... Directional. ... four (4) square feet or less in area... Temporary signs shall conform in size and type to directional signs.
a variance is authorized only for height, area and size of structure or size of yards and open spaces; establishment or expansion of a use otherwise prohibited shall not be allowed by variance
There shall be provided at the time of erection of any main building or at the time any main building is enlarged, minimum off-street parking space with adequate provision for entrance and exit by standard sized automobiles as follows:
There shall be provided at the time of erection of any main building or at the time any main building is enlarged, minimum off-street parking space with adequate provision for entrance and exit by standard sized automobiles as follows: ...
the location of hotels, motels, mobile home parks, commercial amusement parks and other forms of public amusement, hospitals and medical facilities, gasoline service stations, airports, borrow pits, hog farms, and sanitary fill method garbage and refuse sites, and other uses not expressly permitted, shall require, in addition to the zoning permit and certificate of occupancy, a special exception permit.
The following types of development shall be subject to the site plan review provisions of this chapter upon petition for a rezoning request. (1) All commercial and industrial facilities, including off-street parking. (2) All institutional facilities, such as schools, hospitals, and clubs. (3) Planned unit developments. (4) Mobile home parks.
Upon proper application to the town manager... issue a zoning permit for family day homes... serving six (6) through twelve (12) children...
Where district boundaries are indicated as approximately following or being at right angles to the center lines of streets, highways, alleys or railroad main tracks, such center lines or lines at right angles to such center lines shall be construed to be such boundaries
Where a district boundary is indicated to follow a river, creek, branch or other body of water, the boundary shall be construed to follow the center line at low water or at the limit of the jurisdiction.
All departments, officials and public employees of this jurisdiction which are vested with the duty or authority to issue permits or licenses shall conform to the provisions of this chapter.
All departments, officials and public employees of this jurisdiction which are vested with the duty or authority to issue permits or licenses shall conform to the provisions of this chapter.
This chapter shall be enforced by the administrator who shall be appointed by the town council.
The requirements of this district classification overlap the designated primary use district. No building permit or zoning permit to authorize any erection, reconstruction, alteration or demolition that effects the external appearance of any landmark, building or structure... shall be issued until a certificate of appropriateness is issued by the board.
No building permit or zoning permit to authorize any erection, reconstruction, alteration or demolition that effects the external appearance of any landmark, building or structure... shall be issued until a certificate of appropriateness is issued by the board.
The public notice of the hearing before the planning commission and the governing body shall be published once a week for two (2) successive weeks in some newspaper published or having general circulation in the Town of Tazewell, Virginia
The regulations, restrictions and boundaries established by this chapter may be amended or re-enacted as follows...
Any person, whether as principal, agent, employee or otherwise, violating, causing or permitting the violation of any of the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, may be fined up to two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00).
Source documents
The chapters of the adopted code that were retrieved, read and extracted from. Everything above traces back to one of these.