New Kent County Unincorporated
Zoning districts
8 districts, grouped by category.
Commercial
1Residential
5- Front setback
- 50 ft
- Permitted uses
- 9
- Front setback
- 50 ft
- Permitted uses
- 9
- Front setback
- 50 ft
- Permitted uses
- 13
General Residential District
- Max height
- 100 ft
- Front setback
- 100 ft
- Permitted uses
- 10
General provisions
176 rules that bind every district rather than one — sign regulations, parking, floodplain and the rest of the code’s citywide chapters.
General area, frontage, yards, height, setback, performance requirements and standards applying to all zoning districts.
Setbacks: 150 ft from property lines/roads; 1000 ft from sensitive uses (reducible to 800 ft with screen).
This MHP district is intended to accommodate high-density, single-family, residential mobile home parks.
The Industrial district is intended to provide opportunities where industry can thrive while maintaining a sensitive balance of aesthetic appeal and environmental protection.
Planned unit developments shall have no less than 25 percent of the total land area devoted to landscaped open space
It is the purpose of this article to provide a more flexible and adaptable zoning method to cope with situations found in such zones through conditional zoning, whereby a zoning reclassification may be allowed subject to certain conditions proffered by the zoning applicant for the protection of the community that are not generally applicable to land similarly zoned.
Uses and structures not in accordance with this chapter may be continued, subject to the following provisions...
There are hereby created and established certain zones which include all of the land lying within the approach zones, transitional zones, horizontal zones, and conical zones as they apply to a particular airport.
The Commerce Corridor Overlay District (CCOD) shall include all lands within 500 feet on each side of the following arterial rights-of-way: New Kent Highway, Pocahontas Trail, Emmaus Church Road, Courthouse Road, Eltham Road.
Building coverage (lot coverage) means that percentage of a lot which when viewed from above would be covered by a structure or structures and any part thereof, excluding roof eaves.
Mobile transportable self-contained food service units may operate in all zoning districts subject to the requirements of this section. ... shall not operate on any site for more than four hours in any given day. ... shall not be located within 200 feet of any restaurant ... within 50 feet of any residential dwelling unit.
Stationary transportable self contained food units shall only operate on property within zoning districts where restaurants are permitted. ... shall be connected to a water supply and to a wastewater disposal system ... sanitary and hand-washing facilities ... within 150 feet ... parking shall be available ... litter ... within 50 feet ... temporary signage.
Radio, television or communication stations and/or towers which exceed 50 feet in height in the conservation and agricultural zoning districts.
Radio, television or communication stations and/or towers which exceed 50 feet in height on property zoned business, economic opportunity and industrial.
Radio, television or communication stations and/or towers which exceed 50 feet in height on property zoned business, economic opportunity and industrial.
Radio, television or communication stations and/or towers which exceed 50 feet in height on property zoned business, economic opportunity and industrial.
Cemeteries, equestrian show facilities, group care facilities, horse racing facilities, paint pellet games, pistol ranges, sporting clays, steeplechase, temporary storage of mobile homes, keeping of horses, turkey shoots, zoological gardens, and conversion of single-family to two-family dwellings.
Fences or walls ... no higher than four feet in the front yard and six feet in the side and rear yards.
In-ground or partially in-ground outdoor swimming pools are required to meet the minimum yard setback distances for principal buildings for each particular zoning district as specified in this chapter but may be located in either front, side or rear yards. In-ground swimming pools must be located no closer than 15 feet to any rear lot line. A minimum distance from the nearest portion of the principal building to the closest portion of the swimming pool structure shall not be less than ten feet. All in-ground swimming pools must be surrounded by a suitable fence with a self-latching gate at least four feet but no more than six feet in height.
Accessory residential units must in no case contain in excess of 25 percent of the total floor area of the single-family dwelling to which it is accessory or 450 square feet, whichever is greater.
Source documents
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