zoneoptics
Loudoun County Unincorporated, Virginia · District

AR-2

AR-2 Zoning District
OtherAll Loudoun County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

AR-2 lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA40 ac
Plan view of the district’s stated lot requirements. Solid line: the property line. Dashed: the setback lines the ordinance imposes; a building must stay inside the tinted envelope. Drawn from the figures extracted below — illustrative, not a survey.

Lot

Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built.
1,742,400 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (40 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

Uses

Permitted by right5

  • Limit residential development to densities that will protect the land resources for agricultural operations, common open
  • Promote consistency between residential development and rural economy uses through lower density residential development
  • Ensure development incorporates natural, environmental, and heritage resources while preserving important viewsheds that
  • art studio
  • antiques, art, and crafts

Conditional / special use4

  • Establish a development pattern where buildings are the predominant feature when viewed from roadways and adjacent prope
  • Create transitions between OP uses and other developments, particularly adjacent residential neighborhoods.
  • Create transitions between OP Zoning District uses and other developments, particularly adjacent residential neighborhoo
  • Create transitions between IP Zoning District uses and other developments, particularly adjacent residential neighborhoo

Accessory2

  • Provide for development with limited traffic and aesthetic impacts on surrounding properties and on public facilities an
  • Provide for development with limited traffic and aesthetic impacts on surrounding properties and public facilities and u

Extracted standards

1 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.

Lot

From the ordinance

It allows any existing nonconforming lot to meet the 40-acre minimum lot size in the AR-2 Zoning District; ... In the AR-1 and AR-2 Zoning Districts, no lot may be decreased to less than 80,000 square feet.
1.03.04.C

Use details

{
  "dropped_conditions": {
    "accessory_uses": [
      "Permit residential and other uses only to the extent that they may be compatible with general and intensive industrial u",
      "Permit residential and other uses only to the extent that they may be compatible with mineral extraction and associated "
    ],
    "conditional_uses": [
      "Maintenance of community wastewater systems located within Common Open Space Lots must be in accordance with Section 7.0",
      "Individual sewage disposal systems may be located on the lot served or within Common Open Space Lots. A maximum of 70% o"
    ]
  }
}