Albemarle County
Zoning districts
8 districts, grouped by category.
Residential
6Residential, Low Density
- Min lot
- 45,000 sq ft (1.03 ac)
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Max density
- 0.97 du/ac
- Permitted uses
- 13
R-10
- Front setback
- 40 ft
- Permitted uses
- 14
R-15 Residential District
- Min lot
- 2,904 sq ft
- Max height
- 65 ft
- Max density
- 15 du/ac
- Permitted uses
- 15
Residential, Medium Density
- Min lot
- 21,780 sq ft (0.5 ac)
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Max density
- 2 du/ac
- Permitted uses
- 13
R-4 Residential District
- Min lot
- 10,890 sq ft (0.25 ac)
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Max density
- 4 du/ac
- Permitted uses
- 14
R-6 Residential District
- Min lot
- 7,260 sq ft
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Max density
- 6 du/ac
- Permitted uses
- 15
General provisions
521 rules that bind every district rather than one — sign regulations, parking, floodplain and the rest of the code’s citywide chapters.
The following uses shall be permitted in the CO district... The following uses shall be permitted only by special use permit approved by the board of supervisors
Minimum frontage required on a public street for the establishment of an HC district shall be 150 feet. Frontage of an HC district shall not exceed depth.
PD-SC districts shall be located in areas served by both public water and sewer systems...
Minimum area required for the establishment of a PD-MC district shall be three acres.
The gross floor area of each establishment should not exceed 3,000 square feet. The aggregate gross floor area of the independent offices or general commercial uses, or both, should not exceed 24,000 square feet and should not exceed 25 percent of the gross floor area of the building.
structures may be erected to a height not to exceed 65 feet.
No construction activity, including grading or clearing vegetation (collectively, 'disturbance'), shall occur within 30 feet of any district other than a commercial or industrial district except in the following circumstances...
The uses permitted by right, by special use permit and by special exception in the light industry (LI) district are set forth in 'LI' column in the table in section 26.2. ... structures may be erected to a height not to exceed 65 feet.
The uses permitted by right, by special use permit and by special exception in the heavy industry (HI) district are set forth in 'HI' column in the table in section 26.2. ... structures may be erected to a height not to exceed 65 feet.
The uses permitted by right, by special use permit and by special exception within those areas designated as Category I or Category II ... are set forth in the 'PD-IP Cat. 1' and 'PD-IP Cat. 2' columns in the table in section 26.2. ... structures may be erected to a height not to exceed 65 feet.
Section 30.7 shall apply to all privately and publicly owned lands within the county that are within the boundaries of the steep slopes overlay district... The uses permitted by right on preserved slopes are the following: ...
A manufactured home park shall consist of five or more contiguous acres. Each manufactured home lot shall be provided with an individual connection to an approved sanitary sewage disposal system and an individual connection to an approved central water supply.
A manufactured home subdivision shall have at least ten lots.
Definitions from Albemarle County Zoning Ordinance, Chapter 18.
Home occupation sign means a sign on the premises of a dwelling unit that has an authorized Class B or major home occupation that does not exceed four square feet in sign area and only states the name of the person occupying the dwelling and identifies the product or service offered by the home occupation.
Homestay means an accessory residential use providing transient lodging and rooms for dining and meetings for use by homestay guests provided that the dining and meeting rooms are subordinate to the homestay use. A homestay use may offer no more than five guest rooms for lodging.
Group home means, for the purposes of this chapter, a residential facility in which no more than eight individuals with mental illness, intellectual disability, or developmental disabilities reside with one or more resident or nonresident staff persons and which is licensed by the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services or other licensing authority.
Family day home means a child day program offered in the dwelling unit of the provider or the dwelling unit that is the home of any of the children in care for 12 or fewer children under the age of 13, exclusive of the provider's own children and any children who reside in the home, when at least one child receives care for compensation.
The following uses shall be permitted by right in the RA district, subject to the applicable requirements of this chapter: 1. Detached single-family dwellings, including guest cottages and rental of the same; ...
Detached single-family dwellings, including guest cottages and rental of the same; provided that yard, area and other requirements of section 10.4, conventional development by right, shall be met for each such use...
Source documents
The chapters of the adopted code that were retrieved, read and extracted from. Everything above traces back to one of these.
- CHAPTER 14 - SUBDIVISION OF LAND245K charsRead →
- CHAPTER 18 - ZONING1.5M charsRead →