Altavista, Virginia · District
R-2
R-2 (medium-density residential) district
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right20
- accessory apartment
- family day care home
- group home
- home garden
- home occupation
- keeping of chickens
- manufactured home, emergency
- multi-family dwelling (three or fewer units)
- single-family dwelling, attached
- single-family dwelling, detached
- temporary family health care structures
- townhouse
- assisted care residence
- community recreation
- cultural service
- safety service
- utility service, minor
- restaurant, mobile
- amateur radio tower
- satellite dish antenna one meter or less in diameter or measured diagonally
Conditional / special use21
- community garden
- keeping of horses
- multi-family dwelling (more than three units)
- cemetery
- club
- crisis center
- educational facilities, primary/secondary
- governmental service
- guidance service
- halfway house
- life care facility
- non-profit facility
- nursing home
- public parks and recreational areas
- religious assembly
- bed and breakfast
- day care center
- golf course
- personal service business
- short-term rental
- satellite dish antenna in excess of one meter in diameter or measured diagonally
Accessory14
- Sec. 86-199. - Maximum height of structures.
- Sec. 86-200. - Provisions for corner lots.
- Sec. 86-221. - Site development regulations (for townhouses).
- Sec. 86-222. - Minimum lot area.
- Sec. 86-223. - Minimum gross acreage.
- Sec. 86-224. - Minimum lot width.
- Sec. 86-225. - Minimum setback requirements—Principal structure.
- Sec. 86-227. - Maximum lot coverage.
- Sec. 86-228. - Maximum height of structures.
- Sec. 86-251. - Site development regulations (for multi-family dwellings).
- Sec. 86-252. - Minimum gross acreage.
- Sec. 86-253. - Minimum setback requirements—Principal structures.
- Sec. 86-255. - Maximum lot coverage.
- Sec. 86-256. - Maximum height of structures.
Extracted standards
3 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structures not permitted in front yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates.
Front yard: Not permitted in front yard
- Corner lot front definition
Of the two sides of a corner lot, the front of the lot shall be deemed to be the shortest of the two sides fronting on streets.
- Structures exempt from heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. limit
Church spires, belfries, cupolas, municipal water towers, chimneys, flues, utility poles, transmission structures, television antennas (except satellite antennas which are regulated by article IV of this chapter), and radio aerials.
From the ordinance
Minimum lot frontage: Eighty feet (measured at the front setback line). Maximum lot coverage—Accessory structures: Twenty-five percent of rear yard area. All townhouse dwelling units must be served by public water and sewer. All multi-family dwellings must be served by public water and sewer.