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Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right18
- agriculture
- wayside or roadside stand or market
- forest, scenic and wildlife preserves and conservation areas
- single-family detached dwellings
- cemeteries; police, fire and rescue squad stations; other essential public services
- portable sawmills, portable chipping mills, and portable shaving mills
- electric facilities operating at 40 kilovolts or below
- bed-and-breakfast establishments and short-term tourist rentals
- manufactured homes and individual mobile homes
- confined feeding operations and confined poultry feeding operations
- tiny home dwellings
- Town of Luray Wastewater Facility
- distilleries (limit 5,000 gallons per year)
- farmers market
- greenhouse retail sales
- brewery
- winery
- aircraft maintenance facilities, avionics repair facilities, aviation terminal buildings, and any other buildings and/or structures related to aviation that are adjacent to and under the control of a public use airport
Conditional / special use23
- lodges or clubs for climbing, hunting, fishing, gunning, nature observation or other similar recreation purposes
- commercial outdoor recreation areas and facilities
- publicly owned sanitary landfills
- recreational trailer camps
- airstrips (not closer than 1,000 feet from a residential district boundary)
- electric facilities operating above 40 kilovolts
- churches and public schools
- professional offices (not higher than two stories and not exceeding 5,000 square feet)
- outdoor commercial recreation areas and facilities: camps and campgrounds
- pole-designed tower facilities or pole-designed structures
- commercial sawmills, commercial chipping mills, and commercial shaving mills
- commercial workshops
- veterinarian clinics, pet grooming, boarding and breeding of animals
- family day home (five or more unrelated children)
- wholesale businesses and storage warehouses within confined poultry feeding operation buildings
- event venue
- self-storage unit
- farm implements sales with or without service facilities
- indoor and outdoor shooting ranges
- auto repair service facility/public garage
- commercial parking facilities
- riding stables or academies
- quarry operations
Extracted standards
7 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. buildings shall be less than main building in heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.
All accessory buildings shall be less than the main building in height, except as provided in § 125-14D.
- Maximum distillery production5,000 gallons/year
There shall be a limit of 5,000 gallons per year.
- Maximum principal residential structures per lot1 structure
Only one permitted principal residential structure shall be allowed on any lot, tract or parcel of land.
- Minimum distance from confined feeding operation300 ft
Any new structure designed to be occupied as a residence, church, school, community center or commercial establishment or industry or any other structure designed for public occupancy shall not be located closer than 300 feet from any confined feeding operation.
- Site plan required before zoning permit
Before obtaining a zoning permit for the uses listed within this district either as a permitted use, accessory use or by special use permit a site plan shall be submitted with the zoning application (prior to construction).
- Well class requirement
All wells in Agricultural Zoned Districts shall be a Class III 'B' well
- Well setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from property lines adjacent to agriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them. parcels 3+ acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.50 ft
maintain a fifty-foot setback from all property lines adjacent to parcel(s) three acres or larger that are used for an agricultural operation
From the ordinance
Minimum lot size: 1 3/4 acres; width at setback line: 150 feet. Front yard: 50 feet; each side yard: 20 feet; rear yard: 50 feet. Maximum building coverage: 10%; maximum height: 35 feet/2 1/2 stories.