New Kent County Unincorporated, Virginia · District
A-1
Agricultural, A-1
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right27
- Agriculture
- Cemeteries (no sale of lots)
- Churches with an approved site plan
- Construction trailers and/or portable or temporary buildings
- Distillery
- Forestry
- Game preserves and conservation areas
- Golf courses/country clubs
- Government buildings and facilities
- Guesthouse
- Hospitals and medical facilities
- Intensive dairy facility
- Intensive livestock facility
- Intensive poultry facility
- Libraries
- Micro-brewery
- Parks and playgrounds
- Public schools
- Public utilities
- Radio, television or communication towers not exceeding 50 feet in height
- Satellite dishes
- Single-family residential units
- Stables
- Temporary manufactured homes
- Winery, commercial
- Winery, farm
- Yacht clubs
Conditional / special use39
- Airports
- Antique shops
- Bed and breakfast/home stay establishments
- Campgrounds
- Cemeteries (with sale of lots)
- Childcare centers
- Community centers
- Construction business, with storage of equipment, as a home occupation
- Distillation of ethanol from grain
- Energy storage project
- Equestrian show facility
- General store
- Group care facilities
- Helistops
- Horse racing facility
- Kennels
- Marinas
- Mining, excavation or filling, borrow pits, extraction, processing and removal of land, gravel and stripping of topsoil
- Mobile home as storage shed in conjunction with a bona fide agricultural operation
- Paint pellet competitive games
- Permanent mobile homes that do not meet the definition of manufactured housing under Code of Virginia, § 15.2-2290, on 25 acres or more
- Pistol ranges
- Portable sawmills
- Private clubs or hunt clubs
- Private schools
- Public or private electrical generation facilities, electrical substations with a capacity of 5,000 kilovolt amperes or more, and electrical transmission lines capable of transmitting 69 kilovolts or more
- Public or private transmission pipelines, including pumping stations and accessory storage
- Public or private water and sewer facilities
- Radio, television or communication stations and/or towers which exceed 50 feet in height
- Railroad facilities
- Single-family conversion to two-family
- Solar generation facility
- Sporting clays
- Steeplechase
- Temporary storage of a mobile home
- Turkey shoots
- Veterinary clinics
- Water impoundments for public or private use of 50 acres or more and a dam height of 25 feet or more
- Zoological gardens
Accessory4
- The manufactured home is to be used by the applicant as a residence while construction of a house for the applicant is i
- A drawing showing the proposed location of the manufactured home including distances from all property lines and the sep
- The manufactured home is to be used by the applicant as a residence while construction of a house for the applicant is i
- A drawing showing the proposed location of the manufactured home including distances from all property lines and the sep
Extracted standards
7 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Density
- Minimum acreage for first tenant house25 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
One tenant house for every 25 acres with a minimum of 25 acres being necessary to establish the first tenant house.
Height
- Maximum communication tower heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. (permitted)50 ft
Radio, television or communication towers not exceeding 50 feet in height.
Other
- AgriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them. buffer strip width5 ft
Maintain a five-foot-wide grass or planted strip on-site along all rights-of-way and streams.
- Maximum general store retail floor area3,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Such store shall be restricted to 3,000 square feet or less of retail sales floor.
- Maximum temporary manufactured homeManufactured homeA dwelling built in a factory to a federal standard and transported to the site. duration36 months
The placement of the manufactured home shall be temporary and shall be permitted for a period to expire 90 days after the issuance of a certificate of occupancy for the dwelling, but in no event for more than three years.
Setback
- Hunt club setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from residential property line250 ft
Hunt clubs shall be located at least 250 feet from a property line of a residential use.
- Satellite dish setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from right-of-way50 ft
Satellite dishes ... set back 50 feet or more from any state maintained or privately owned public right-of-way.
From the ordinance
A-1 Agricultural district: min lot area 10 acres, min width 150 ft, front setback 75 ft, side yard 25 ft each, rear yard 50 ft, permitted uses include agriculture, single-family residential, etc.
Use details
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"One six-month extension may be granted at the discretion of the zoning administrator upon good cause shown by the applic",
"Only those manufactured homes built since June 15, 1976, and constructed in accordance with regulations promulgated by t",
"The zoning administrator shall require the applicant to post a $500.00 surety, conditioned upon removal of the manufactu"
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