Dinwiddie County Unincorporated, Virginia · District
A-2
Agricultural, General District
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right45
- single-family dwelling
- agriculture
- livestock, dairy and poultry facilities
- general farming
- schools
- parks and playgrounds
- churches
- professional offices
- gift shops
- antique shops
- general stores
- beauty shops
- barbershops
- sawmills
- planing mills
- forestry
- small boat docks
- preserves and conservation areas
- lodges
- hunting clubs
- yacht clubs
- cemeteries
- home occupation type II
- public utility facilities
- off-street parking
- accessory uses
- business signs
- church bulletin boards and identification signs
- directional signs
- location signs
- companion birds (outdoors)
- private kennel
- day care centers
- manufactured housing for office use
- nursery and landscaping services
- computer software development firms
- cabinet shops
- guest house
- in-law suite
- group home small
- family day care
- family day care large
- agritourism activities
- flea market (max two days)
- farm operation manufactured home
Conditional / special use31
- motels
- airports
- manufactured home park
- laydown yard and hauling
- commercial kennel
- nursing homes and homes for the aged
- sand and gravel operations
- asphalt mixing plant
- concrete/cement mixing plant
- storage of seasonal equipment
- motor sports complex
- governmental offices
- veterinary hospital
- communication tower with station
- repair of agricultural and heavy equipment
- agriculturally oriented ethanol plant
- open pit mining
- campgrounds
- automotive and/or vehicular body and fender work
- automobile and/or vehicular sales and services
- borrow area
- storage of explosives
- propane bulk storage facility
- educational retreat center
- bed and breakfast
- pet cemetery
- truck/tractor hauling and Port-O-John toilet rental
- outdoor recreation facility
- group home large
- flea market (more than two days)
- event facility
Accessory2
Extracted standards
3 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- Dwelling heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. increase up to 45 feet45 ft
The height limit for dwellings may be increased up to 45 feet and up to three stories.
Other
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. building setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from property line15 ft
No accessory building may be closer than 15 feet to any property line.
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from street centerline105 ft
Structures shall be located 105 feet or more from the centerline of any street right-of-way.
From the ordinance
Minimum lot area three acres; setback 105 feet from centerline; side yards 35 feet, rear 75 feet; height up to 35 feet.