Brunswick County Unincorporated

Regulations, restrictions and boundaries subject to amendment; conditional zoning; posting of signs.

conditional zoning is permitted. That is, a zoning reclassification may be allowed subject to certain conditions proffered by the zoning applicant for the protection and well-being of the community that are not generally applicable to land similarly zoned.

One sign shall be erected for each abutting public street and for each 500 feet of frontage. Such signs shall be erected not less than seven calendar days before any public hearing and removed within two calendar days after the final public hearing.

Minimum lot area 5 acres; front yard 150 ft; side yards 50 ft; rear yard 70 ft; height 35 ft; permitted uses include single-family dwellings, manufactured homes 19+ ft wide, schools, churches, parks; conditional uses include duplex, group homes, etc.

The minimum lot area for permitted uses, together with its accessory uses, shall be one acre or more.

Such space shall be a minimum of ten feet in width and 20 feet in length, except that off-street parking facilities containing any parking spaces may use 20 percent of the total spaces as 'compact car' spaces with a minimum size of 7½ feet in width and 15 feet in length.

Requirements for siting a manufactured home and securing a certificate of occupancy therefor.

All proposed subdivisions of three or more lots or parcels, concurrently or cumulatively, from any one tract or parcel of land for residential purposes must be zoned residential (R-1) or residential (R-2) under the zoning ordinance of Brunswick County prior to final plat approval.

Except for the height limits as set forth in section 1-9 and section 26-4-4(f), any other height limitations specified in the zoning ordinance shall not apply to church spires, belfries, cupolas, domes, heat transfer units, tanks, water towers, air emission stacks, chimneys, flues, cooling towers, radio or television antennas as an accessory use to the principal use, or similar structures attached to a building and containing no advertisement, nor the parapet walls extending not more than four feet above the limiting height of the building; nor to grain elevators, derricks or other necessary industrial, utility, public service or temporary construction structures; provided that no such structure specifically mentioned above shall exceed a height in any residential (R-1, R-2, RRMH, RR) district of 75 feet except as may be allowed by a conditional use permit, nor in any other district of 165 feet except as may be allowed by a conditional use permit, nor shall such structure penetrate the floor of any of the zones noted in section 1-9, Airport Safety Zones.

Required screening shall be provided in accordance with the following standards to achieve the intent of this section, except where otherwise provided in the district regulations of this ordinance:

There shall be provided at the time of erection of any main building, or at the time any main building is enlarged, minimum off-street parking space with adequate provisions for entrance and exit by standard sized automobiles, as follows:

Whenever there shall be plans in existence, approved by either the Virginia Department of Transportation, or by the governing body, for the widening of any street or highway, the commission may recommend additional front yard setbacks for any new construction or for any structures altered or remodeled adjacent to the future planned right-of-way, in order to preserve and protect the right-of-way for such proposed street or highway widening.

Wherever general advertising signs are permitted by this ordinance, they shall be subject to the size, spacing and lighting regulations established by the Commonwealth Transportation Board for such signs adjacent to non-freeway federal-aid primary routes.

There are hereby established certain zones which include all of the area and airspace of Brunswick County lying equal to and above the approach surfaces, transitional surfaces, horizontal surfaces, and conical surfaces as they apply to the Lawrenceville-Brunswick Airport and the Mecklenburg Brunswick Regional Airport.

Small-scale solar facilities may be installed by-right in all zoning districts to provide electricity to structures or via the Commonwealth of Virginia's net metering provision; provided a site plan (as applicable) has been submitted to the zoning administrator for review and approval; all federal, state and local regulations have been followed; and the system is located upon the property or structure being served.

Medium-scale solar facilities are permitted in industrial districts only with the issuance of a conditional use permit on properties and projects meeting all of the following requirements: ... Cooperative-scale and utility-scale facilities are permitted in agricultural districts and industrial districts only with the issuance of a conditional use permit (CUP). ...

Cooperative-scale and utility-scale facilities are permitted in agricultural districts and industrial districts only with the issuance of a conditional use permit (CUP). ... The minimum setback to property lines of parcels with habitable dwellings shall be 250 feet and the minimum setback to all other property lines shall be 150 feet ...

The maximum total acreage of land in Brunswick County to be under PV panel coverage for both cooperative-scale and utility-scale solar facilities is 8,600 acres. The maximum total acreage of PV panel coverage for all cooperative-scale solar facilities is 100 acres cumulatively; the maximum total acreage of PV panel coverage for utility-scale solar facilities is 8,500 acres cumulatively.

Solar facilities which have reached the end of their useful life or have not been in active and continuous service for a period of six months shall be decommissioned, except the board of supervisors may extend the time for the resumption of operations if the project is being repowered or a force majeure event has occurred or is occurring that will prevent the solar facility from resuming operations within six months.

Such variances shall only be allowed where it is duly found that a literal application or enforcement of the regulations will result in unnecessary hardship and relief granted will not be contrary to the public interest, will not create a hazard to air navigation, will do substantial justice, and will be in accordance with the spirit of this ordinance.