Municipality · Virginia

Amherst

The ordinance has been retrieved, read and turned into structured rules.
10
Districts
249
Extracted rules
625
Standards
16
Chapters read

Zoning districts

10 districts, grouped by category.

General provisions

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

Sec. 24-133 standards

Incidental agriculture is permitted without a zoning certificate... not occupy over five acres... yard sales... limited to 48 hours per sale and no more than one such sale per month.

Sec. 24-141 standards

Except for permitted apartments in single-family dwellings, two-family dwellings, multifamily dwellings and manufactured home parks where permitted, no more than one dwelling unit may be permitted on a lot or parcel of land.

Sec. 24-14

no more than one dwelling unit may be permitted on a lot or parcel of land.

Sec. 24-15

Private access to a parcel of land used appropriately in a zoning district as provided herein shall be prohibited through another zoning district.

Sec. 24-151 standards

Private access to a parcel of land used appropriately in a zoning district as provided herein shall be prohibited through another zoning district.

Sec. 24-164 standards

Each flag lot must have a minimum of 25 feet of frontage on the street.

Sec. 24-163 standards

Each flag lot must have a minimum of 25 feet of frontage on the street... The development of one flag lot behind another flag lot shall be prohibited.

Sec. 24-1651 standards

All departments, officials, and public employees of the town who are vested with the duty or authority to issue permits or licenses shall conform to the provisions of this chapter.

Sec. 24-166(1)

No person shall subdivide land without making and recording a plat of such subdivision and without fully complying with the provisions of this chapter.

Sec. 24-168(a)1 standards

Any use not expressly permitted or permitted by special use permit in a specific district is prohibited.

Sec. 24-168(a)

Any use not expressly permitted or permitted by special use permit in a specific district is prohibited.

Sec. 24-168(a)1 standards

Any use not expressly permitted or permitted by special use permit in a specific district is prohibited.

Sec. 24-168(a)1 standards

Any use not expressly permitted or permitted by special use permit in a specific district is prohibited.

Sec. 24-168.1(a)1 standards

Any person who violates or fails to comply with any of the provisions or requirements of this chapter shall be subject to a civil penalty of $200.00 for the initial summons or ticket, and a civil penalty of $500.00 for each additional summons or ticket arising from the same set of operative facts.

Sec. 24-175 standards

Dwelling units, which include guest houses, garage apartments, additional dwellings within a home, mother-in-law dwellings, and other residential accommodations, may be established accessory to a single-household residence...

Sec. 24-173 standards

Dwelling units... may be established accessory to a single-household residence... No lot shall contain more than two accessory dwellings, for a total of three dwellings on a lot... acceptable provision for water and wastewater must be obtained.

Sec. 24-170(a)1 standards

Wherever the requirements of this chapter are at variance with the requirements of any other lawfully adopted statutes, rules, regulations or ordinances, the most restrictive or that imposing higher standards shall govern.

Sec. 24-1987 standards

Unless district boundary lines are fixed by dimensions, and where uncertainty exists with respect to the boundaries of any of the aforesaid districts as shown on the official zoning map, the following rules shall apply...

Sec. 24-2

Mobile homes are allowed only in manufactured home parks.

Sec. 24-23 standards

No outdoor storage of goods and equipment is permitted in residentially zoned areas.

Source documents

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