Hanover County Unincorporated

Where a court is more than fifty (50) percent surrounded by a building, the minimum width of the court shall be at least thirty (30) feet for one-story buildings, forty (40) feet for two-story buildings, and fifty (50) feet for three-story buildings.

no structure, building, sign, parking or loading area, tree or object of natural growth, or other improvement shall be made within seventy-five (75) feet of the center line of any airport taxiway included within and APO Overlay Airport Protection Overlay District.

No antenna, including antennas for the reception of satellite broadcasts, shall be constructed within the required yard in any zoning district.

Within the designated Suburban Development Overlay District, no such antenna shall be located within any part of the front or side yards.

There shall be a front yard of at least fifteen (15) feet on the side street of a corner lot in any district

Open unenclosed porches, platforms, or paved terraces, not covered by a roof or canopy and which do not extend above the level of the first floor of the building, may extend to project into the front yard not more than six (6) feet.

no front yard in a residential district shall be less than twenty (20) feet or need be more than seventy-five (75) feet

Open, unenclosed porches, platforms, or paved terraces, not covered by roof or canopy and which do not extend above the level of the first floor of the building, may extend or project into the required side setback not more than six (6) feet.

The minimum depth of side yards for schools, libraries, churches, community houses, and other public and semipublic buildings in residential districts shall be twenty-five (25) feet

Open, unenclosed porches, platforms, or paved terraces, not covered by roof or canopy and which do not extend above the level of the first floor of the building; open or lattice-enclosed fire escapes, outside stairways and balconies opening upon fire towers; and the ordinary projections of chimneys and flues may project into the required yard for a distance of not more than ten (10) feet

Filling station pumps and pump islands may occupy the required yards; provided, however, that they are not less than fifteen (15) feet from street right-of-way lines.

Permitted accessory storage of a boat, boat trailer or camp trailer shall not be conducted in a front yard.

no accessory building shall be constructed upon a zoning lot for more than six (6) months prior to beginning construction of the main building and no accessory building shall be used for more than six (6) months unless the main building on the zoning lot is also being used or unless the main building is under construction.

Accessory buildings ... may be constructed in a rear yard, provided such accessory building does not occupy more than thirty (30) percent of the area of the required rear yard and provided it is not located closer than five (5) feet to the rear lot line nor closer than three (3) feet to a side lot line.

When a lot is so located as to have contiguous boundaries with the rear lot lines of all adjoining lots, accessory structures may be placed anywhere on the lot; provided that no structure may be closer than five (5) feet to any lot line.

Accessory swimming pools, open and unenclosed, may occupy a required rear yard, provided the edge of water is not located closer than six (6) feet to a rear lot line or ten (10) feet to a side lot line.

A walk space at least three (3) feet wide shall be provided between pool walls and protective fences or barrier walls.

the height limitations of this Ordinance shall not apply to the following structures when such structures do not exceed a height of one hundred twenty-five (125) feet: ... belfries, chimneys, church spires, water towers, etc.

the owner of property on which construction of a new structure or the alteration of an existing structure where such construction or alteration: a. Exceeds two hundred feet above ground level or is within 20,000 feet of the Hanover County Airport, and b. Exceeds a 100:1 surface slope from any point on the runway, must submit to the Administrator of the FAA ... a request for an Obstruction Evaluation and Airport Airspace Analysis.

public and semipublic or public service buildings, hospitals, institutions or schools, when permitted in a district, may be erected to a height not exceeding sixty (60) feet and churches and temples may be erected to a height not exceeding seventy-five (75) feet when the required side and rear yards are each increased by at least one (1) foot for each one (1) foot of additional building height above the height regulations for the district in which the building is located.