Culpeper County Unincorporated
Zoning districts
5 districts, grouped by category.
Residential
4Residential District R-1
- Min lot
- 40,000 sq ft (0.92 ac)
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Permitted uses
- 8
Residential District R-2
- Min lot
- 25,000 sq ft (0.57 ac)
- Permitted uses
- 3
Residential District R-3
- Min lot
- 15,000 sq ft (0.34 ac)
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 50 ft
- Max density
- 8 du/ac
- Permitted uses
- 6
Residential District R-4
- Min lot
- 217,800 sq ft (5 ac)
- Front setback
- 100 ft
- Max density
- 12 du/ac
- Permitted uses
- 5
General provisions
253 rules that bind every district rather than one — sign regulations, parking, floodplain and the rest of the code’s citywide chapters.
When calculations result in fractions the results will be rounded as follows: 1. Minimum Requirements. When a regulation is expressed in terms of a minimum requirement, any fractional result shall be rounded up to the next consecutive whole number.
When a regulation is expressed in terms of a minimum requirement, any fractional result shall be rounded up to the next consecutive whole number.
Buffering shall be provided as required under Table 33-2 and generally as follows: Residential Subdivisions when lot sizes are forty thousand (40,000) square feet or less that border freeways or arterial roadways. Multifamily Developments that border freeways or arterial roadways.
Limited encroachments into a screen or buffer to provide for sidewalks, bike paths, or utility easements may be permitted, provided that the planting requirements are fully met, trees are not planted within any actual utility easement, and such encroachments are compatible with and do not impair or diminish the purposes herein.
The landowner shall be responsible for the general maintenance, including but not limited to watering of all landscaped areas required by this Article, and the timely repair and replacement of all required plant and landscape materials in such landscaped areas.
Whenever a site plan is required by this chapter, a landscape plan shall be required.
A bond, escrow, letter of credit or other performance guarantee, with surety satisfactory to the County shall be furnished to the County by the landowner or developer in an amount sufficient for and conditioned upon installation and maintenance of all required plantings and improvements shown on an approved landscape plan prior to the issuance of final land disturbance or construction permits.
The following categories of plant material are hereby established: large shade trees, medium shade trees, ornamental trees, evergreen trees, and shrubs.
Minimum tree canopy coverage shall be provided for all new commercial, industrial, and multi-family residential development in accordance with this section.
In the event any trees to be preserved under this Section or Section 33-5.B are destroyed or, in the reasonable opinion of the Zoning Administrator, are significantly damaged during clearing or site construction activities, or are later willfully destroyed, injured or removed, the person responsible for such destruction, injury or removal shall replace such trees by planting or preserving one large canopy tree of three-inch caliper and one medium canopy or ornamental tree a minimum of six feet in height within every 300 square feet of area in which the injured, removed or destroyed tree or trees stood.
Street trees shall be required along existing and proposed public streets in (1) any commercial or industrial development which is subject to site plan approval and (2) all multi-family residential developments.
All parking lots having fifteen (15) or more parking spaces shall meet the following landscaping requirements:
When required, screening shall consist of new plantings, existing vegetation, an opaque masonry wall or wooden fence, or combination thereof, to the reasonable satisfaction of the Approving Authority.
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