Albemarle County Unincorporated

Fenced area means the developed area within the fence line of a facility containing solar panels, inter-row spacing, and any equipment or design features to be located within the fence line, including stormwater management.

Preservation area means an area identified on a plan submitted for approval which contains natural features such as non-tidal wetlands, floodplain, streams and stream buffers that are to be preserved in a natural state and not be developed with any manmade feature.

Onsite sewage system means a conventional onsite sewage system or an alternative onsite sewage system.

Overlay district means the zoning districts established in section 30.

Parapet means that part of a wall entirely above the roof.

Marquee means a fixed covering that projects over an entrance to a theater or other building.

Mansard roof means a roof having two slopes on all sides with the lower portion having a steeper slope than the upper portion. This definition shall apply to any roof having a flat upper portion and sloped sides.

Landscape contractor means an establishment providing landscaping services. For the purposes of this definition, landscaping means the modification of the landscape for an aesthetic or functional purpose.

Heavy equipment and heavy vehicle parking and storage yard means an area used for parking, storing or maintaining heavy equipment and heavy vehicles used off-site in the trade, business or other commercial or industrial activity of the owner or occupant (collectively, the off-site activity), and which may include storing and maintaining heavy equipment and heavy vehicles within buildings or structures and storing explosives, including blasting caps, that are used in the off-site activity, and kerosene and other volatile materials in volumes that are reasonably necessary to maintain equipment and vehicles; but which use does not include storing nuclear products, by-products or wastes.

Manufactured home park means one or more contiguous parcels of land in which three or more rental lots are provided for manufactured homes.

Gross residential area means the total area of land and water within a residential development.

Existing building means, as used in section 5.1.40 and any definitions pertaining to personal wireless service facilities, a building that was lawfully constructed or established and complies with the minimum applicable bulk, height, setback, floor area, and other structure requirements of the district in which the building is located.

Existing structure means, as used in section 5.1.40 and any definitions pertaining to personal wireless service facilities, a structure, other than a flagpole or an existing personal wireless service facility that was lawfully constructed or established and complies with the minimum applicable bulk, height, setback, floor area or other structure requirements of the district in which the structure is located.

Sandwich board sign: an A-frame sign with two faces that is periodically placed directly in front of the place of business that it advertises, with dimensions of no more than four feet in height, two feet in width, and eight square feet of area per sign face.

For the purposes of this ordinance the following shall not apply to the R-1, R-2 and R-4 residential districts: a group of not more than six persons not related by blood, marriage, adoption or guardianship living together as a single housekeeping unit in a dwelling or dwelling unit.

Floodplain means any land area susceptible to being inundated by water from any source. Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) means a map of the County on which the Federal Emergency Management Agency has delineated both the special hazard areas and the risk premium zones applicable within the county.

Home occupation sign means a sign on the premises of a dwelling unit that has an authorized Class B or major home occupation sign. A sign for 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.

Hotel means a use composed of transient lodging provided within one or more buildings having six or more guest rooms that provides transient lodging.

Impounding structure means a man-made structure, whether a dam across a watercourse or other structure outside a watercourse, used or to be used to retain or store waters or other materials and includes: (i) all dams that are 25 feet or greater in height and that create an impoundment capacity of 15 acre-feet or greater; and (ii) all dams that are six feet or greater in height and that create an impoundment capacity of 50 acre-feet or greater.