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Dimensional standards
Lot
Height & bulk
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right20
- single-family detached dwellings
- two-family detached dwellings
- cluster housing developments
- home occupations, class A
- public and semipublic uses (churches, church adjunctive graveyards, libraries, museums, schools, hospitals, parks, playgrounds, post offices)
- accessory uses
- off-street parking
- public utilities
- business signs advertising sale or rent of premises
- church bulletin boards
- directional signs
- home occupation signs
- identification signs
- automobile graveyards, class A
- yard sales
- communication towers
- small wind energy system
- bed and breakfast, class A
- bed and breakfast, class B (if majority zoned A-1)
- vacation house (if majority zoned A-1)
Conditional / special use6
- additional small wind energy system(s)
- double-wide mobile home on permanent foundation
- lattice structure for wind turbine
- bed and breakfast, class B (if not applicable)
- vacation house (if not applicable)
- outdoor entertainment venue in connection with permissible public/semi-public use
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Extracted standards
11 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- HeightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. increase condition for dwellings
The height limit for dwellings may be increased up to ten (10) feet and up to three (3) stories provided there are two (2) side yards, each of which is ten (10) feet or more, plus one (1) foot or more of side yard for each additional foot of building height over thirty-five (35) feet.
Other
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from property line15 ft
Accessory structure: Minimum of fifteen (15) feet from a property line. An accessory structure shall not be located in the required front yard.
- Minimum width at setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. line for corner lots100 ft
For subdivisions platted after the enactment of this ordinance each corner lot shall have a minimum width at the setback line of one hundred (100) feet or more.
- Corner lot side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. on side street20 ft
The side yard on the side facing the side street shall be twenty (20) feet or more for both main and accessory building.
- Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built. for family subdivision43,560 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
The minimum lot area shall be one (1) acre (43,560 square feet) per dwelling for a family subdivision lot.
- Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built. with public sewer30,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
For single-family dwelling units utilizing the Nelson County public sewage disposal system, the required area for such use shall be thirty thousand (30,000) square feet.
- Site plan required for 3 or more dwelling unitsDwelling unitOne independent home: its own kitchen, bathroom and entrance.3 units
Before a building and zoning permit shall be issued where three (3) or more dwelling units are to be placed on one (1) lot or parcel, a site plan of proposed development shall be approved by the Administrator, in conformance with Article 13 of this ordinance.
Signage
- Maximum business sign area6 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Business signs advertising the sale or rent of premises, up to six (6) feet in total area.
- Maximum directional sign area2 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Directional signs, up to two (2) square feet in total area.
- Maximum home occupationHome occupationA business run from a dwelling, permitted so long as it stays subordinate to living there. sign area4 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Home occupation signs, up to four (4) square feet in total area.
- Maximum identification sign area4 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Identification signs, up to four (4) square feet in total area.
From the ordinance
The minimum lot area shall be two (2) acres (87,120 square feet) or more per dwelling unit for lots being served by individual wells and septic systems.