Lancaster County Unincorporated, Virginia · District
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Rural Village Overlay, All Districts
Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
Housing
Servicing
- Geographic extent
- Areas that have been traditional village centers
Uses
Permitted by right52
- Single-family residences
- Residences located in the same building as a business
- Retail food stores and bakeries
- Antique shops and art galleries
- Laundry and dry cleaning, to include coin-operated laundry facilities
- General, variety and drug stores
- Barber and beauty shops
- Appliance sales and service
- Auto sales, repair and service stations
- Theaters and assembly halls
- Hotels, motels, tourist homes
- Office buildings, business offices, banks, savings and loan, and other professional buildings
- Churches
- Libraries
- Hospitals, general and private
- Funeral homes
- Printing and framing shops or offices
- Restaurants
- Clubs and lodges
- Lumber and building supply, hardware, home improvement and farm supplies
- Plumbing, electrical, heating and air conditioning supply, sales and service
- Building contractors
- County-sanctioned public facilities
- Post office
- Major recreational equipment in accordance with article 19
- Horticultural nurseries, greenhouses with garden and plant supplies and flower sales
- Child care or day care centers
- Veterinary hospitals
- Bookstores, stationery and office supply stores
- Exterminating companies sales and service
- Furniture stores and carpet stores
- Insurance agencies
- Jewelry and gift shops, hobby and craft shops, sales and service
- Locksmiths
- Music stores
- Optical sales and service
- Real estate sales offices and other brokerage sales offices
- Sporting goods and wearing apparel stores
- Swimming pools sales and service
- Travel agencies
- Automobile assembling, painting, upholstering, repairing, rebuilding, reconditioning, body and fender work, and truck repairing or overhauling
- Public utility booster or relay stations, transformer substations, transmission lines and towers, and other facilities for the provision and maintenance of public utilities, including telecommunications and water and sewer lines
- Office buildings for executive, administrative, business, educational or professional services
- Commercial marina including boat and accessory sales, boat storage, engine and boat repairs, fishing and boating supplies
- Yacht club
- Mailing, reproduction, commercial art and photography, and stenographic services
- Factory outlets and retailing
- Garages and storage buildings
- Radio and/or signal transmission towers less than 35 feet in height above ground level, located in the rear or side yard
- Retail sale, wholesale, lease or licensing of goods or services directly to a user, manufacturer, distributor, retailer or customer using computers or telecommunications
- Call centers
- Service provider installation of single-pole high-speed data communication antennas less than 100 feet in total height with main structure setbacks
Conditional / special use4
- Multi-family residences or cluster homes with approved master plan
- Public billiard parlors and pool rooms, bowling alleys, dancehalls, and similar forms of public amusement
- Radio and/or signal transmission towers greater than 35 feet in height above ground level
- Service provider installation of single-pole high-speed data communication antennas not meeting the criteria (i.e., 100 feet or more) with a special exception
Extracted standards
7 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. with 25 ft side yards35 ft
However, the height limit may be increased to 35 feet for any building when side yards of at least 25 feet are provided.
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. for public/semipublic buildings60 ft
A public or semipublic building such as a school, church, library, or general hospital may be erected to a height of 60 feet from grade, subject to such conditions deemed necessary by the board of supervisors.
- Maximum parapet wall heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. above building4 ft
Parapet wall may be up to four feet above the height of the building on which the wall rest.
Other
- Maximum business floor area4,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Businesses permitted within this district are required to conduct all aspects of their operations enclosed under roof and are limited to 4,000 square feet of floor area, unless otherwise approved with a special exception.
- Maximum storiesStoreysHabitable floor levels. Whether a basement or attic counts is defined by the local code. for accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure within 10 ft of lot line1 storiesStoreysHabitable floor levels. Whether a basement or attic counts is defined by the local code.
No accessory structure that is within ten feet of any property lot line shall be more than one story high.
Parking
- Parking regulations
Parking regulations shall conform to section 13-6 of this ordinance.
Signage
- Sign regulations
Sign regulations shall conform to article 11 of this ordinance.
From the ordinance
In the Rural Village Overlay, All Districts, structures to be erected or land to be used shall be for one or more of the listed uses.