Mathews County Unincorporated

Open structures such as porches, canopies, balconies, platforms, carports, decks, covered patios, and similar architectural projections shall be considered part of the building to which attached and shall not project into the required minimum front, side, or rear yard.

The home occupation shall be clearly incidental and subordinate to the residential use of the property. The home occupation use may not exceed the greater of 400 square feet or 25% of the living space of the residence. If an accessory structure is used in a home occupation, it shall not exceed 50% of the footprint area of the primary residence and must be located to the rear of the primary structure. ...

All home enterprises shall be required to have the minimum lot size required for the applicable zoning district. A home enterprise may be conducted in an existing residential structure, in an accessory structure or in a combination of the following structures: If in a residential structure, no more than 25% of the gross floor area of the residential structure may be used for in the conduct of the home enterprise. Any accessory buildings associated with a home enterprise shall not be larger, in the aggregate, than 50% of the footprint area of the principle residential structure. Accessory buildings shall not be more than 20 feet in height. ... The parking requirements shall be one for each outside employee other than family members or the applicant and one per 200 gross square feet of floor area dedicated to the operation of the home enterprise.

All commercial, industrial, and multifamily residential uses that provide trash and/or garbage collection areas shall enclose such areas on at least three sides by a solid wall or fence of at least six feet in height if such area is not within an enclosed building or structure.

Nonresidential uses of buildings shall not be conducted or located closer than 50 feet to any lot line of the Residential-1 (R-1), Residential-2 (R-2), Rural (RU) or Conservation (C) District except that the minimum yard requirements may be reduced by up to 50% if acceptable landscaping approved by the Administrator is provided. Such landscaping shall consist of a strip of land extending along the entire length of the subject lot line and not less than 25 feet in width planted with an evergreen hedge or dense planting of evergreen shrubs not less than six feet in height...

No land or building in any district shall be used or occupied in any manner creating dangerous, injurious, noxious, or otherwise objectionable conditions which could adversely affect the surrounding areas or adjoining premises, except that any use permitted by this chapter may be undertaken and maintained if acceptable measures and safeguards are taken to reduce dangerous and objectionable conditions to acceptable limits and are approved by the Administrator prior to initiation of the use.

The Administrator, prior to the approval of an application for a building permit, may require the submission of statements and plans indicating the manner in which dangerous and objectionable elements involved in processing and in equipment operations are to be eliminated or reduced to acceptable limits and tolerances.