County (unincorporated) · Virginia

Culpeper County Unincorporated

The ordinance has been retrieved, read and turned into structured rules.
5
Districts
258
Extracted rules
1,010
Standards
55
Chapters read

Zoning districts

5 districts, grouped by category.

General provisions

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

Sec. 2-2.A8 standards

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.

Sec. 2-2.A8 standards

When a regulation is expressed in terms of a minimum requirement, any fractional result shall be rounded up to the next consecutive whole number.

Section 33-102 standards

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.

Section 33-111 standards

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.

Section 33-121 standards

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.

Section 33-131 standards

Whenever a site plan is required by this chapter, a landscape plan shall be required.

Section 33-141 standards

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.

Section 33-414 standards

The following categories of plant material are hereby established: large shade trees, medium shade trees, ornamental trees, evergreen trees, and shrubs.

Section 33-56 standards

Minimum tree canopy coverage shall be provided for all new commercial, industrial, and multi-family residential development in accordance with this section.

Section 33-61 standards

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.

Section 33-72 standards

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.

Section 33-83 standards

All parking lots having fifteen (15) or more parking spaces shall meet the following landscaping requirements:

Section 33-96 standards

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.

Source documents

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