Culpeper County Unincorporated

No permit shall be issued for the erection of any permanent structure intended for residential, commercial or industrial use, nor shall any such structure be erected on land in such proximity and relative elevation to an open stream or drainage channel when the surface of such land is subject to periodic or recurring flooding from storm water, or subject to the danger of erosion of the land underlying such structure.

In order to determine whether or not a permit should be issued under this Article, the zoning administrator in appropriate cases may require that the application for a building permit be accompanied by a topographic survey of the lot showing existing and proposed grades.

No occupancy, or change of occupancy, use or change of use of any land or building shall take place until a certificate of occupancy shall have been issued by the zoning administrator.

Construction or operation shall be commenced within one year of date of issuance of the permit, three (3) years for package sewer treatment plants (see Chapter 14, section 14-24, Culpeper County Code), and two (2) years for energy generation facilities.

Towers shall be located a minimum of one mile from any designated Virginia Scenic Byway. The addition of the antenna shall not add more than twenty (20) feet in height to the structure or tower. SBFs greater than the maximum height allowed in the general regulations for the underlying zoning district, but less than one hundred (100) feet tall;

Incorporate riparian buffers of at least a minimum of 100 feet from the top-of-bank of all perennial watercourses. Plan shall indicate any area of disturbance that is denuded of vegetation shall be stabilized within fourteen (14) days. 'Fully stabilized' shall mean at least 80% vegetative cover.

There shall be created a joint Board of Zoning Appeals... which shall consist of five (5) residents of the County or municipality...

Every appeal from a determination of the zoning administrator and every application for a variance shall be accompanied by a fee in such amount as is set, from time to time, by the Board of Supervisors.

If any variance granted by the Board of Zoning Appeals is not acted upon and put into effect within one (1) year after the date of such grant, then the variance shall be null and void and of no force and effect.

Any request for hardship, variance or relief of administrative determination in the WMD must acknowledge the existence of the watershed...

In addition, wherever practical, the style or method of development in the WMD shall be required to represent the best water quality results obtainable.

The Zoning Administrator is hereby authorized to grant a modification from any provision contained in the Zoning Ordinance with respect to physical requirements on a lot or parcel of land...

The minimum lot area in such subdivision shall be not less than ten percent (10%) smaller than the above-described average lot area, except that no lot shall in any case contain an area of less than eight thousand five hundred (8,500) square feet...

Home Occupation: ... total area ... not exceed 25% ... no outdoor display ... only family members employed.

Home Occupation: ... The total area devoted to the home occupation shall not exceed twenty-five percent (25%) of the livable floor area of the principal structure, exclusive of the basement.

Acre: A measure of land equating to forty-three thousand five hundred sixty (43,560) square feet.

Development within the overlay zone must conform to the requirements of both the underlying zone district and the overlay zone district or the more restrictive of the two.

All uses not listed as 'permitted or principal' shall be deemed to be a prohibited use in that zone district.

When calculations result in fractions the results will be rounded as follows: Minimum Requirements... round up; Maximum Limits... round down.

Definitions and measurements for the Zoning Ordinance.