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Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right27
- Agricultural uses involving tilling of the soil, raising of crops, horticulture, forestry, and gardening
- Livestock, dairy or poultry facilities
- Detached single-family dwelling on an individual lot
- Public school
- Church, church bulletin board, parish hall, parish house, convent, monastery
- Park, playground
- Wildlife preserve, conservation area
- Home occupations (office, child care)
- Volunteer fire or rescue squad
- General store with business sign
- Mobile home on a farm operation
- Mobile home as temporary use during construction
- Offstreet parking as required
- Public utility distribution facilities and temporary structures
- Aquaculture
- Manufactured houses at least 19 feet in width
- Temporary outdoor Christmas tree sales
- Temporary outdoor Virginia legal fireworks sales
- Animal boarding place, private, on parcels of more than one acre
- Agricultural uses involving tilling of the soil, the raising of crops, horticulture, forestry, and gardening
- Home occupations (office, home occupation child care)
- Mobile home as a temporary use during construction of a conventionally built residence
- Mobile home or travel trailer as a temporary use during construction of a commercial, industrial or public structure
- Offstreet parking as required by this article
- Public utility distribution facilities and temporary structures (100 sq ft or less, 12 months or less)
- Manufactured houses at least 19 feet in width and placed in a manner which renders the unit no longer transportable
- Temporary outdoor Christmas tree sales and holiday items
Conditional / special use1
- animal boarding place, private, on parcels of one acre or less in size
Extracted standards
10 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Frontage
The minimum lot frontage for permitted uses on culs-de-sac shall be at least 50 feet.
Height
- Maximum accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. when set back35 ft
All accessory buildings shall be less than the main building in height, provided that an accessory structure may be erected up to a height of 35 feet when located at least 150 feet from the main building and at least 100 feet from any party lot line.
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. building story limit within 20 feet of party line1 storiesStoreysHabitable floor levels. Whether a basement or attic counts is defined by the local code.
No accessory building which is within 20 feet of any party lot line shall be more than one story high.
- AgriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them. structure heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. limitation
For structures used exclusively for agricultural purposes, there is no height limitation.
- Exempt structures from heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. limit
Church spires, belfries, cupolas, monuments, water towers, chimneys, flues, flagpoles, television antennae and radio aerials are exempt. Parapet walls may be up to four feet above the height of the building on which the walls rest.
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. for public/semipublic buildings60 ft
A public or semipublic building such as a school or church may be erected to a height of 60 feet from grade, provided that required front, side and rear yards shall be increased one foot for each foot in height over 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 line5 ft
No accessory structure may be closer than five feet to any property line.
- Front setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. alternative for narrow streets100 ft
Structures shall be 75 feet or more from any street right-of-way which is 50 feet or greater in width or 100 feet or more from the centerline of any street right-of-way less than 50 feet in width.
- Maximum length-to-width ratio4 ratio
The length thereof shall not exceed four times the width.
- Minimum corner lot widthLot widthHow wide a lot must be, usually measured at the front setback line. at setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. line200 ft
Each corner lot shall have a minimum width at the setback line of 200 feet or more.
From the ordinance
Minimum lot area 5 acres; front setback 75 ft from ROW; side yard 15 ft; rear yard 35 ft; height 35 ft; accessory structures 5 ft from property line.