Albemarle County Unincorporated
Zoning districts
7 districts, grouped by category.
Residential
6- Max height
- 24 ft
Residential - R-10
- Min lot
- 4,356 sq ft
- Max height
- 65 ft
- Max density
- 10 du/ac
- Permitted uses
- 27
Residential - R-15
- Min lot
- 2,904 sq ft
- Max height
- 65 ft
- Max density
- 15 du/ac
- Permitted uses
- 15
- Max height
- 24 ft
- Max height
- 24 ft
Residential - R-6
- Min lot
- 7,260 sq ft
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Max density
- 6 du/ac
- Permitted uses
- 28
General provisions
1,135 rules that bind every district rather than one — sign regulations, parking, floodplain and the rest of the code’s citywide chapters.
The provisions in this section through section 4.2.5 implement the comprehensive plan by protecting and conserving steep hillsides together with public drinking water supplies and flood plain areas...
No lot other than a special lot shall have less than one building site, subject to the following: ... building site may not contain critical slopes, flood hazard overlay, under water, within 200 feet of 100-year flood plain of public water supply reservoir, or within stream buffer.
A building site shall be composed of a contiguous area of land and may not contain any area of land that is: (i) in critical or preserved slopes; (ii) within the flood hazard overlay district; (iii) under water during normal hydrological conditions; (iv) within 200 horizontal feet of the 100-year flood plain of any public water supply reservoir; and (v) within a stream buffer under chapter 17 of the Code
No lot other than a special lot shall have less than one building site, subject to the following: ...
A building site shall be composed of a contiguous area of land and may not contain any area of land that is: (i) in critical or preserved slopes; (ii) within the flood hazard overlay district; (iii) under water during normal hydrological conditions; (iv) within 200 horizontal feet of the 100-year flood plain of any public water supply reservoir; and (v) within a stream buffer under chapter 17 of the Code
Building sites for uses not served by a public or central sewage system: Each building site for a dwelling unit shall have an area of 30,000 square feet or greater and shall be of such dimensions that no one dimension exceeds any other by a ratio of more than five to one.
Each building site for a dwelling unit shall have an area of 30,000 square feet or greater and shall be of such dimensions that no one dimension exceeds any other by a ratio of more than five to one...
Each building site for a dwelling unit shall have an area of 30,000 square feet or greater and shall be of such dimensions that no one dimension exceeds any other by a ratio of more than five to one
No structure or improvement shall be located on a critical slope of 25 percent or greater, except as provided in section 4.2.5.
No structure or improvement shall be located on any lot or parcel in any area other than a building site. No structure ... shall be located on critical or preserved slopes except as otherwise permitted.
No structure or improvement shall be located on any lot or parcel in any area other than a building site. No structure, improvement, land disturbing activity to establish a structure or improvement, or placement of clean earth fill or inert waste fill shall be located on critical or preserved slopes
No structure, improvement, land disturbing activity to establish a structure or improvement, or placement of clean earth fill or inert waste fill shall be located on critical or preserved slopes except as otherwise permitted
No structure or improvement shall be located on a critical slope of 25 percent or greater, except as provided in section 4.2.5.
Any onsite sewage system shall be located within a building site. ... discourage onsite sewage systems on slopes of 20 percent or greater.
the Virginia Department of Health should be mindful of the intent of section 4.2, and particularly mindful of the intent to discourage onsite sewage systems on slopes of 20 percent or greater. Any onsite sewage system shall be located within a building site.
the Virginia Department of Health should be mindful of the intent of section 4.2, and particularly mindful of the intent to discourage onsite sewage systems on slopes of 20 percent or greater
Any requirement of section 4.2.1, 4.2.2, 4.2.3 or 4.2.4 may be modified or waived by special exception of the Board of Supervisors as provided in section 33.5.
The Board of Supervisors may modify or waive any requirement as provided in subsection (b)
A lot, structure, or improvement may be exempt from the requirements of section 4.2 as provided herein.
Any lot or parcel of record which was lawfully a lot of record on the effective date of this chapter shall be exempt from the requirements of section 4.2 for the establishment of the first single-family detached dwelling unit on such lot or parcel
Source documents
The chapters of the adopted code that were retrieved, read and extracted from. Everything above traces back to one of these.