Isle Of Wight County Unincorporated

Property boundary lines, dimensions, existing and proposed easements and utilities, floodplain, existing topography such as natural features and wooded areas, drainage patterns and existing and proposed stormwater facilities, existing and proposed water and sewer facilities, existing rights-of-way of adjacent roads to include their names, numbers and widths, any proposed new rights-of-way including their widths and proposed names, the distance to existing intersections located within five hundred (500) feet of the property, watercourses by name, classification, high, low and mean water lines, any bulkheads, piers or other significant features, resource protection areas and one hundred-foot buffers;

Topographic map with a maximum of two-foot contour intervals, showing the location of environmentally sensitive lands, such as wetlands, watercourses and other natural features, mitigation areas, notable soil groups and wooded areas. Where existing ground is on a slope of less than two percent (2%), either one-foot contours or spot elevations where necessary, but not more than fifty (50) feet apart in both directions;

The final site development shall be submitted to the department of planning and zoning within six (6) months of preliminary site development plan approval or the applicant must file a new application for preliminary site development plan approval.

No certificate of occupancy shall be issued until the required site improvements have been completed in accordance with an approved simplified site plan or final site development plan. When the occupancy of a structure is desired prior to the completion of the required site improvements, a temporary certificate of occupancy may be issued only if the owner or developer provides a form of surety satisfactory to the county attorney in an amount equal to the costs of labor and materials plus ten percent (10%) contingency allowance satisfactory to the zoning administrator.

All required improvements shall be completed and approved within six (6) months or the surety may be forfeited.

Approval of a simplified site plan and final site development plan shall be void unless a building permit has been issued or use of the affected property has commenced within five (5) years from the date of approval as outlined in Section 15.2-2261 of the Code of Virginia.

All landscaping plans are required to have at least twenty-five percent (25%) of the total landscaping points for the site as evergreen species.

Properties located within a designated village center shall only be required to apply the frontage zone, parking zone, and screening zone, when development or redevelopment occurs.

Rural frontage zone applies to all properties which are outside of the designated development service districts and village centers of the county comprehensive plan.

Development frontage zone applies to all properties which are within the designated development service districts of the county comprehensive plan.

The buffer zone is a continuous landscaping screen, ten (10) feet wide, required along all side and rear yards.

The parking zone is a continuous perimeter buffer, ten (10) feet in width, surrounding the entire parking area

The foundation zone is a continuous area six (6) feet in width around the entire perimeter of the building.

The screening zone is a continuous planting area required around all service structures, equipment, and/or outdoor storage yards

An individual zone may be reduced by no more than fifty percent (50%) of the zone requirement due to landscaping credits

Except as otherwise provided in section 9-1004, a sign permit is required prior to the display of any sign and no sign greater than one (1) square foot in area may be constructed, erected, moved, enlarged, illuminated or substantially altered...

All signs in the historic overlay districts require approval of the historic architectural review committee (HARC) except as otherwise set forth in section 6-3006 and when a sign permit is not required as provided in section 9-1004.

The following signs are exempt from regulation under this article without a zoning permit so long as such signs are located a minimum of ten (10) feet from any property line, are located outside of VDOT right-of-way and are located outside of any sight triangles...

Signs in rural agricultural conservation zoning districts shall not exceed sixteen (16) square feet in size and a maximum of six (6) feet in height. Single-post signs may be utilized in RAC, RR, and VC districts.

In addition to those signs prohibited elsewhere in this Code or by applicable state or federal law, the following signs are prohibited: ...