James City County Unincorporated, Virginia · District
R-6
Low-Density Residential District
Dimensional standards
Lot
Density
Height & bulk
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right16
- Accessory apartments, attached
- Accessory buildings or structures
- Agriculture, including land and buildings for accessory uses
- Boat docks
- Communications facilities (public or private)
- Community recreation facilities
- Home occupations
- Horse or pony farms, riding stables or horse show areas
- Houses of worship
- Off-street parking
- Preserves, conservation areas or hunting clubs
- Retail shops associated with community recreation facilities
- Schools, libraries and fire stations
- Single-family dwellings
- Timbering
- Water impoundments, new or expansion of, less than 50 acres and with dam heights of less than 25 feet
Conditional / special use14
- Accessory apartments, detached
- Adult day care centers
- Cemeteries and memorial parks
- Communications facilities (public or private)
- Day care and child care centers
- Electrical generation facilities, electrical substations with a capacity of 5,000 kilovolt amperes or more and electrical transmission lines capable of transmitting 69 kilovolts or more
- Golf courses, county clubs
- Home care facilities
- Railroad facilities
- Rental of rooms to a maximum of three rooms
- Telephone exchanges and telephone switching stations
- Transmission pipelines
- Water facilities (public or private), and sewer facilities (public)
- Water impoundments, new or expansion of, of 50 acres or more or with dam heights of 25 feet or more
Accessory1
Extracted standards
4 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Density
- Maximum net density in subdivisions1 unit per acreacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
All other subdivisions shall have a maximum net density of one unit per acre.
Height
- HeightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. increase to 45 feet with increased side yards45 ft
The height limit for dwellings may be increased to 45 feet and to three stories; provided, that the two side yards for the dwelling are increased to a minimum of 15 feet plus one foot for each additional foot of the building's height over 35 feet.
Other
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure side and rear setbacksSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.5 ft
The minimum side yard for accessory structures shall be five feet; however, the minimum side yard for accessory buildings exceeding one story shall be 15 feet.
- Corner lot side street setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.35 ft
No structure shall be located closer than 35 feet to the side street.
From the ordinance
The minimum lot area shall be 43,560 square feet. Structures shall be a minimum of 35 feet from any street the right-of-way of which is 50 feet or greater in width.