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 8-2-74 standards

Any required landscaping shall be installed prior to the issuance of a certificate of occupancy.

Section 8-2-76 standards

Any required landscaping shall be installed prior to the issuance of a certificate of occupancy... Existing healthy trees and shrubs shall be credited... All plantings shall be maintained in perpetuity...

Section 8-2-83 standards

Trees which are to be preserved on site shall be protected before, during, and after the development process utilizing accepted practices.

Section 8-2-84 standards

Trees which are to be preserved on site shall be protected before, during, and after the development process... Trees and groups of trees which are to be preserved shall be enclosed by a temporary fence or barrier... five feet outside of their dripline...

Section 8-2-98 standards

No fence or wall between a street and a front building line shall be more than four feet in height; a fence or wall in any residential zoning district shall not exceed seven feet in height above the existing grade without approval of a special use permit.

Section 8-2-95 standards

No fence or wall between a street and a front building line shall be more than four feet in height; a fence or wall in any residential zoning district shall not exceed seven feet in height above the existing grade without approval of a special use permit; a fence or wall in any business zoning district shall not exceed eight feet in height above the existing grade without approval of a special use permit.

Section 8-2-98 standards

No fence or wall between a street and a front building line shall be more than four feet in height; A fence or wall in any residential zoning district shall not exceed seven feet in height... business zoning district shall not exceed eight feet...

Section 8-2-9(i)(5)e1 standards

Old and Historic District: chain-link fencing is prohibited.

Section 8-3-137 standards

For the purpose of the regulations of this division, a loading space is a space within the main building or on the same lot providing for the standing, loading, or unloading of trucks, and having a minimum area of 480 square feet, a minimum width of 12 feet, a minimum depth of 40 feet, and a vertical clearance of at least 15 feet.

Section 8-3-136 standards

a loading space is a space within the main building or on the same lot providing for the standing, loading, or unloading of trucks, and having a minimum area of 480 square feet, a minimum width of 12 feet, a minimum depth of 40 feet, and a vertical clearance of at least 15 feet.

Section 8-3-711 standards

Off-street parking areas shall be marked off into parking spaces with a minimum width of nine feet and a minimum length of 18 feet.

Section 8-3-78 standards

Off-street parking areas shall be marked off into parking spaces with a minimum width of nine feet and a minimum length of 18 feet... All aisles within parking areas shall have a minimum width of 24 feet when the parking spaces are at a 90° angle...

Section 8-46 standards

Window signs are permitted only on the first floor of a building unless the business advertised is only on the floor where the window sign is displayed.

Section 8-4(b)5 standards

Signs within the Old and Historic District shall be subject to the Town of Abingdon Design Review Guidelines for the Old and Historic District, as amended, and require a certificate of appropriateness by the Historic Preservation Review Board (HPRB).

Section 8-4-33 standards

Memorial plaques and building cornerstones not exceeding six square feet in area. ... temporary signs not exceeding four square feet for single-family detached properties or 18 square feet for all other residential, nonresidential, or mixed-use properties.

Section 8-4-41 standards

Prohibited signs. (1) Any sign affixed to, hung, placed, or painted on any other sign, fence, cliff, rock, tree, natural feature, public utility pole or structure supporting wire, cable, or pipe, or radio, television, or similar tower...

Section 8-4-518 standards

The minimum setback from any right-of-way, unless otherwise specified, is half the height of the sign. Illumination shall be no greater than 10,000 nits or footcandles from sunrise to sunset or 700 nits or footcandles from sunset to sunrise...

Section 8-4-516 standards

The minimum setback from any right-of-way, unless otherwise specified, is half the height of the sign.

Section 8-4-516 standards

Any sign displayed in the Town of Abingdon, shall comply with all provisions of this article; all applicable provisions of the Uniform Statewide Building Code; all state and federal regulations pertaining to the display of signage; sign area calculations.

Section 8-4-5(d)1 standards

Within any business or industrial district, unless located within the Entrance Corridor Overlay District between Porterfield Highway and Cummings Street (digital signs prohibited)

Source documents

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