Municipality · Virginia

Abingdon

The ordinance has been retrieved, read and turned into structured rules.
22
Districts
343
Extracted rules
1,308
Standards
12
Chapters read

Zoning districts

22 districts, grouped by category.

General provisions

318 rules that bind every district rather than one — sign regulations, parking, floodplain and the rest of the code’s citywide chapters.

Section 7-2-64 standards

Any agriculture operation event may be held only if the agricultural operation to which it is subordinate has a minimum of five acres of land in active agricultural production on-site...

Section 7-2-6 Agritourism6 standards

Any agriculture operation event may be held only if the agricultural operation to which it is subordinate has a minimum of five acres of land in active to agricultural production on-site...

Section 7-2-73 standards

No portion of the use, excluding required screening and landscape buffers, shall be located within 100 feet of a residential district or structure containing a dwelling unit.

Section 7-2-7 Automobile repair service4 standards

No portion of the use, excluding required screening and landscape buffers, shall be located within 100 feet of a residential district or structure containing a dwelling unit.

Section 7-2-84 standards

No vehicle or equipment displays shall be located within a required yard, fire lane, travel way, sidewalk, or landscaped area.

Section 7-2-8 Automobile sale, rental or leasing8 standards

No vehicle or equipment displays shall be located within a required yard, fire lane, travel way, sidewalk, or landscaped area.

Section 7-2-94 standards

A bed-and-breakfast is allowed as a special use only as accessory to a single-family detached dwelling and must be occupied by the owner/operator during operation.

Section 7-2-9 Bed-and-breakfast7 standards

A bed-and-breakfast is allowed as a special use only as accessory to a single-family detached dwelling and must be occupied by the owner/operator during operation.

Section 8-1-39 standards

Spillover light shall not exceed 0.5 foot candles at adjoining streets, commercial use, and mixed use and shall not exceed 0.1 foot candles at adjoining residential properties.

Section 8-1-39 standards

Spillover light shall not exceed 0.5 foot candles at adjoining streets, commercial use, and mixed use and shall not exceed 0.1 foot candles at adjoining residential properties. All exterior lights shall be 3,000 Kelvin or less. Pole-mounted lighting max 30 ft industrial, 20 ft other.

Section 8-1-38 standards

Any pole-mounted exterior lighting shall not exceed a height of 30 feet in height in industrial districts and 20 feet in height in all other districts. All exterior lights shall be 3,000 Kelvin light color temperature or less.

Section 8-2-44 standards

New developments shall preserve existing or plant at least two trees between the front property line and the minimum front yard setback line.

Section 8-2-4(a)(1)2 standards

New developments shall preserve existing or plant at least two trees between the front property line and the minimum front yard setback line. For corner lots there shall be a minimum of two trees per street frontage.

Section 8-2-4(a)(2)1 standards

New developments or redevelopments shall preserve existing or plant at least one tree per 40 linear feet of street frontage between the front property line and the minimum front yard setback line.

Section 8-2-4(b)(1)1 standards

New developments or redevelopments shall preserve existing or plant at least one tree per 40 linear feet of street frontage between the front property line and the minimum front yard setback line.

Section 8-2-4(c)(2)5 standards

A landscape buffer of at least 10 feet in width shall be landscaped with the following materials for each 40 feet of linear street frontage: At least one deciduous tree, with branching no closer than five feet to the ground; At least three ornamental trees; At least three shrubs; and Other ground cover reasonably dispersed throughout the buffer.

Section 8-2-52 standards

In the above conditions, a continuous six-foot-high buffer with a minimum width of 20 feet shall be required.

Section 8-2-52 standards

In the above conditions, a continuous six-foot-high buffer with a minimum width of 20 feet shall be required.

Section 8-2-66 standards

All vehicle parking areas shall include landscaping as required in this section to provide shade, screen views, and mitigate stormwater runoff.

Section 8-2-67 standards

All vehicle parking areas shall include landscaping as required in this section... Where a parking lot abuts a public right-of-way or property line, a landscaping strip of at least 10 feet in width...

Source documents

The chapters of the adopted code that were retrieved, read and extracted from. Everything above traces back to one of these.