Albemarle County, Virginia · District
R-15
R-15 Residential District
Dimensional standards
Lot
Density
Height & bulk
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
- Three-family
- by_right
- Four-plus family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right15
- Detached single-family dwellings
- Semi-detached and attached single-family dwellings such as two-family dwellings, triplexes, quadraplexes, and townhouses
- Multiple-family dwellings such as garden apartments
- Cluster development of permitted residential uses
- Rental of permitted residential uses and guest cottages
- Group home
- Boarding houses
- Homestays
- Electric, gas, oil and communication facilities, excluding tower structures
- Public uses and buildings
- Temporary construction uses
- Accessory uses and buildings including home occupation, Class A and storage buildings
- Stormwater management facilities
- Tier I and Tier II personal wireless service facilities
- Family day homes
Conditional / special use20
- Community center
- Clubs, lodges, civic, fraternal, patriotic
- Fire and rescue squad stations
- Swim, golf, tennis or similar athletic facilities
- Private schools
- Electrical power substations, transmission lines and related towers
- Child day center
- Manufactured home subdivisions
- Assisted living facility, skilled nursing facility, children's residential facility, or similar institution
- Hospitals
- Offices
- Retail stores and shops on a single floor, compatible with the residential characteristics of the district, with a gross floor area not exceeding 4,000 square feet
- Home occupation, Class B
- Religious assembly use
- Cemeteries
- Stand alone parking and parking structures
- Manufactured home parks
- Tier III personal wireless service facilities
- Historical centers, historical center special events, historical center festivals
- Farmers' markets
Extracted standards
1 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Stepback above 40 feet
The minimum stepback requirements for any story that begins above 40 feet in height or for each story above the third story, whichever is less, in height shall be as provided in section 4.19.
From the ordinance
R-15 districts are hereby created... provides for compact, high-density residential development. Structures may be erected to a height not to exceed 65 feet.