Madison County Unincorporated

a home occupation with less than three employees who are regularly employed on the site may be permitted by special use permit in Conservation (C-1) and Agricultural (A-1) zones and a home occupation conducted solely on or from the premises without employees other than those who reside on the premises and without any customer traffic to the home shall be permitted by right in Conservation (C-1), Agricultural (A-1), Residential, Limited (R-1), Residential General (R-2) and Residential, Multiple Family (R-3) zones.

New construction and substantial improvements shall be anchored to prevent flotation, collapse or lateral movement... lowest floor elevated to no less than one foot above base flood level.

The centerline of any entrance onto a Virginia primary road shall be 600 feet or more from the centerline of any adjacent entrance; ... The centerline of any entrance onto U.S. Route 29 shall be 900 feet or more from the centerline of any adjacent entrance

Within any floodway area, no encroachments, including fill, new construction, substantial improvements, or other development shall be permitted unless it has been demonstrated through hydrologic and hydraulic analysis... The placement of manufactured homes (mobile homes) is prohibited, except in an existing manufactured home (mobile home) park or subdivision.

Until a regulatory floodway is designated, no new construction, substantial improvements, or other development (including fill) shall be permitted within the areas of special flood hazard, designated as AE on the FIRM, unless it is demonstrated that the cumulative effect of the proposed development, when combined with all other existing and anticipated development, will not increase the water surface elevation of the base flood more than one foot at any point within Madison County.

For these areas, the base flood elevations and floodway information from federal, state, and other acceptable sources shall be used, when available. Where the specific one percent annual chance flood elevation cannot be determined for this area using other sources of data... then the applicant for the proposed use, development and/or activity shall determine this base flood elevation. When such base flood elevation data is utilized, the lowest floor shall be elevated to no less than one (1) foot above the base flood level.

A dwelling in which, for compensation, lodging is furnished to three or more but not exceeding nine guests; a boarding house differs because it not only provides rooms but also board.

A sawmill located on real property zoned Conservation, C-1, or Agricultural, A-1, that is sited a minimum of 200 feet from the property line.

Housing intended for sale or rent to person(s) in which one (1) owner or tenant is at minimum fifty-five (55) years of age or older.

Uses permitted include single family attached or detached units, multiple family units and recreational uses of all types, including campgrounds. Property owners association and/or horizontal property regimes are required pursuant to Code of Virginia, § 55-79, as amended.

An area not to exceed five acres containing a screen, projection booth, refreshment stand, parking spaces and sound transmission devices to individual parking spaces only, for the purpose of commercial exhibition of motion pictures.

A dwelling where only lodging is provided for compensation for up to 14 persons (See also Hotels and Boarding Houses) and open to transients.

not more than four of any ten abutting townhouses having the same architectural facades and treatment of materials, and with not more than three abutting townhouses having the same front and rear setbacks. Minimum setback offset shall be not less than one foot.

A travel trailer may not be used as a storage building, nor occupied as a dwelling.