A-2
Dimensional standards
Servicing
- Geographic extent
- AgriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them. districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2. with similar uses to A-1 but with some differences; includes Suburban Development Overlay DistrictOverlay districtA second set of rules laid over the base district, adding requirements without replacing it. references.
Uses
Permitted by right19
- Single-family dwellings, detached
- Telecommunications towers and related facilities (up to 50 feet in height)
- Dog kennels, noncommercial
- Golf courses (not lighted for night play, not including miniature golf, driving ranges, etc.)
- Facilities and structures necessary for rendering utility service (poles, wires, transformers, utility cabinets, etc.)
- Grain storage structures
- Greenhouse, commercial
- Animal hospital or clinic for large or small animals
- Animal hospital or clinic for small animals (enclosed, soundproof)
- Military bases and appurtenances and parks operated by the United States Government or agencies of the Commonwealth of Virginia
- Public and private forests, wildlife reservations, similar conservation projects
- Railroad rights-of-way
- Recreational uses (tennis courts, swimming pools, etc. for private membership)
- Stable, public or commercial (max 1 horse/pony per acre, buildings 200 ft from side/rear lot lines)
- Stable, private, or keeping of horses, ponies or other livestock for personal enjoyment (max 1 per acre, buildings 100 ft from side/rear lot lines)
- Raising for sale of birds, bees, fish, rabbits, and other small animals
- Frog or fish farms (outside Suburban Development Overlay District)
- Medical office (limited to 2 doctors and their staffs)
- Permanent placement or removal of clean earth fill
Conditional / special use7
- Airports and landing fields
- Camps, day or boarding, private or commercial
- Cemetery, including a crematorium
- Circus or carnival grounds, amusement park, zoo or midway
- Exposition center or fairground
- Heliport or helistop
- Hospitals and sanitariums
Accessory27
- Accessory structures for sale or processing of farm products raised on premises (on farms ≥10 acres)
- Accessory open or enclosed storage of farm materials, products, or equipment (on farms ≥10 acres)
- Accessory farm buildings (barns, stables, sheds, tool rooms, shops, bins, tanks, silos) (on farms ≥10 acres)
- Dwellings for persons permanently employed on premises (on farms ≥10 acres)
- Domestic storage in main or accessory building
- Private garage
- Guest houses
- Home occupations in main building
- Keeping of small animals, insects, reptiles, fish, or birds for personal enjoyment (on lots ≥2 acres)
- Domestic employees' quarters
- Storage of recreational vehicles, utility trailers, boat trailers in driveway or rear yard (with conditions)
- Swimming pool and game courts, lighted or unlighted, for occupants or guests
- Signs as regulated in division 7 of article 5
- Temporary buildings incidental to construction (removed within 2 years)
- Accessory off-street parking and loading spaces (one commercial vehicle ≤1-ton capacity)
- Office or construction trailers (max 1 year)
- Noncommercial fuel alcohol distillery
- Foster home
- Telecommunications arrays on existing structures (height increase ≤10% or 10 ft, etc.)
- Pony rings
- Family day homes
- Temporary family health care structures
- Tier 1 battery energy storage systems
- Solar energy facility, accessory, ground-mounted
- Solar energy facility, accessory, roof-mounted
- Short-term rental, owner-occupied
- Secondary kitchen
Extracted standards
14 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Large animal hospital/clinic setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from lot line200 ft
All buildings, structures, pens, or open kennels shall be located at least two hundred (200) feet from any lot line.
- Noncommercial dog kennelKennelBoarding or breeding animals above the number kept as household pets. (open pens, runs, cages) setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from side/rear lot line200 ft
Any open pens, runs, cages or kennels or any place for keeping more than five (5) adult dogs shall be located at least two hundred (200) feet from any side or rear lot lines.
- Golf course 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 adjoining property lines100 ft
No such building is located closer than one hundred (100) feet from adjoining property lines.
- Maximum horses/ponies per acreacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.1 per acreacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
No more than one (1) horse or pony for each acre of land.
- Building for keeping of livestock setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from side/rear lot line (public/commercial stable)200 ft
Any building for keeping of animals shall be located at least two hundred (200) feet from any side or rear lot lines.
- Commercial poultry raising structure setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from off-site dwelling200 ft
Structures for commercial poultry raising shall be located at least two hundred (200) feet from any dwelling not located on the premises and at least one hundred (100) feet from any street or road.
- Commercial poultry raising structure setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from street/road100 ft
Structures for commercial poultry raising shall be located at least two hundred (200) feet from any dwelling not located on the premises and at least one hundred (100) feet from any street or road.
- Private stable building setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from side/rear lot line100 ft
Any building for keeping of animals shall be located at least one hundred (100) feet from any side or rear lot lines.
- Private recreational use setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from adjoining property line50 ft
No such use, structure, or accessory use is located closer than fifty (50) feet to any adjoining property line.
- Sawmill, grain drier, commercial feed lot or hog raising operation setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from off-site dwelling250 ft
Any sawmill, grain drier, commercial feed lot or hog raising operation shall be located at least two hundred fifty (250) feet from any dwelling not located on the premises.
- Raising for sale of small animals setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from side/rear lot line200 ft
Any use shall be located at least two hundred (200) feet from any side or rear lot lines.
- Telecommunications tower heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. (by rightBy rightPermitted outright: if the plans meet the written rules, permission cannot be withheld.)50 ft
Telecommunications towers and related facilities that do not exceed fifty (50) feet in height.
- Utility cabinet/pedestal footprint exemption from screening6 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Single stand-alone utility cabinets or pedestals that do not exceed four (4) feet in height and do not have a footprint area in excess of six (6) square feet
- Utility cabinet/pedestal heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. exemption from screening4 ft
Single stand-alone utility cabinets or pedestals that do not exceed four (4) feet in height and do not have a footprint area in excess of six (6) square feet
From the ordinance
The purpose of this district is to provide for spacious residential development for those who choose this environment; to provide for a full range of agricultural activities... (Sec. 26-32)
Use details
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"dropped_conditions": {
"permitted_uses": [
"Agriculture (including horticultural, chemical, or general farming, truck gardens, cultivation of field crops, orchards, groves, or nurseries, dairy farming, keeping or raising for sale of large or small animals, reptiles, fish, birds, or poultry, and including structures for processing and sale of products raised on the premises)"
]
}
}