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Dimensional standards
Lot
Density
- Maximum density
- 0.5 du/acredu/acreDwelling units per acre — the number of homes allowed on each acre of land.
- Lot area per dwelling unitLot area per dwelling unitLand required for each home — the same limit as du/acre, expressed per unit instead of per acre.
- 87,120 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (2 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)
Height & bulk
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right22
- Single-family dwelling
- Individual manufactured home (on permanent foundation)
- General farming, agriculture, dairying, forestry
- Church
- Park
- Playground
- Preserve and conservation area
- Horticultural nursery and greenhouse
- Hunt club
- Family cemetery
- Home occupation
- Off-street parking
- Accessory use
- Private boat pier
- Lancaster County owned and operated animal shelter
- Private boat ramp
- County-sanctioned public facility
- Major recreational equipment
- Accessory building
- Land application of biosolids
- Service provider installation of single-pole high-speed data communication antenna (less than 100 feet)
- Public utility distribution lines, poles, pipes, meters
Conditional / special use11
- Portable sawmill (temporary logging)
- Basic seafood processing facility
- Public utility booster/relay station, transformer substation, cellular/communication tower >35 ft
- Fire house/rescue squad
- Equestrian academy
- Pet cemetery and pet crematorium
- Disposal of dredge spoil
- Kennel
- Roadside stand
- Utility scale solar facility
- Communication pole not meeting criteria (i.e., >100 ft or not single-pole)
Extracted standards
6 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Accessory structures
- Maximum accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. near property line1 story
No accessory building which is within 25 feet of any property lot line shall be more than one story high.
Other
- Dwelling heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. exception45 ft
The height limit for dwellings may be increased ten feet and up to three stories provided there are two side yards for each permitted use, each of which is 25 feet or more, plus one foot or more of side yard for each additional foot of building height over 35 feet.
- Front setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. exception from edge of right-of-way50 ft
Setbacks less than 75 feet but not less than 50 feet from the edge of the right-of-way may be permitted under a special exception.
- Maximum buildings per lot1 building
Only one building and its accessory buildings may be erected on any lot or parcel of land.
- Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built. exception2 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
Minimum lot areas less than two acres may be permitted under a special exception issued by the board of supervisors.
- Public building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. exception60 ft
A public or semipublic building such as a school, church, library or hospital may be erected to a height of 60 feet from grade provided that the required front, side, and rear yards shall be increased one foot for each foot in height over 35 feet.
From the ordinance
Only one building and its accessory buildings may be erected on any lot... minimum lot 2 acres... structures 100 ft from centerline... side yard 25 ft... rear yard 50 ft... height 35 ft.