Craig County Unincorporated
Zoning districts
5 districts, grouped by category.
Industrial
1Residential
2General provisions
93 rules that bind every district rather than one — sign regulations, parking, floodplain and the rest of the code’s citywide chapters.
Home occupation or identification. A sign not exceeding four square feet in area... Directional sign... four square feet or less in area... Temporary signs shall conform in size and type to directional signs.
All such devices shall be approved by the zoning administrator before installation.
A minimum of 5,000 square feet shall be provided for each manufactured home lot. Each mobile lot shall have a minimum width of 60 feet. Manufactured home lots shall be so designed that no manufactured home is closer than 25 feet to another manufactured home. The setback distance for manufactured homes is 35 feet from all public streets. Setback distance for private streets shall be no less than 25 feet. Parking spaces shall be provided at the rate of 1.5 spaces per manufactured home lot.
Manufactured home parks: min park area 5 acres, max density 6 units/acre, setback 35 ft from public streets, 15 ft from park boundary, height 45 ft, parking 1.5 spaces/lot.
Manufactured home parks; min 5,000 sqft per lot; width 60 ft; setback 35 ft from public streets; parking 1.5 spaces per lot.
Manufactured home parks permitted. Minimum 5,000 sqft per lot, max density 6 units/acre, setback 35 ft from public streets, parking 1.5 spaces per lot, height 45 ft.
Minimum area for each manufactured home park shall be five acres. Maximum density of units per acre shall not exceed six units per gross acre. Minimum area for an individual manufactured home space shall be 5,000 square feet.
The minimum area for each manufactured home park shall be five acres. Minimum number of spaces completed and ready for occupancy before first occupancy is permitted shall be eight. The total density of any manufactured home park shall not exceed six units per gross acre. The minimum area for an individual manufactured home space shall be 5,000 square feet.
Emergency use of individual manufactured homes will be allowed in all residential districts where a natural disaster or fire has destroyed or damaged normal dwellings. Manufactured homes are permitted as temporary offices or storage structures, not for permanent residential use, in business, industrial, or residential districts in the construction phase of buildings in these districts.
Buildings and structures may be erected up to a height of 45 feet. Churches, belfries, cupolas, monuments, silos, barns, water towers, chimneys, flues, flagpoles, small-scale solar installations, and non-commercial television and radio antennas and aerials are exempt from this height regulation.
Buildings and structures may be erected up to a height of 45 feet.
Every parking space for manufactured homes shall be provided with devices for anchoring the unit to prevent overturning or uplift.
An approved water supply system shall be installed with adequate water taps and connections for each travel trailer or manufactured home parking space to supply running water for all sanitary and washing fixtures, drinking and domestic purposes are required by the plumbing code (Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code).
Such facilities shall be located so as to be connected to the public sewer system or to the other approved disposal plant.
The main electric service to the park shall be of adequate capacity to serve the maximum connected load.
Installations for use of natural gas or liquefied petroleum gas shall comply with all laws and ordinances of the community applicable to the use of such systems for dwellings.
Motor fuel service stations shall be located adjacent to a public street and shall be not less than 30 feet from spaces for parking of travel trailers or manufactured homes or other buildings.
The district shall encompass an area no greater than one-quarter mile from the property line of the land pertaining to any such historic landmark, building, or structure. No building or structure, including signs, shall be erected, reconstructed, substantially altered, or restored within a historic district unless the same is approved by the board of supervisors as being architecturally compatible... No historic landmark, building, or structure within any historic district shall be razed or demolished until the razing or demolition thereof is approved by the board of supervisors.
Historic district overlay, design compatibility required, demolition approval by board of supervisors.
Historic district designated by board of supervisors, encompassing area no greater than one-quarter mile from property line of landmark. Buildings must be architecturally compatible.
Source documents
The chapters of the adopted code that were retrieved, read and extracted from. Everything above traces back to one of these.