Prince William County Unincorporated, Virginia · District
R-2
Residential District
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right1
Conditional / special use9
- Adult day center
- Bed and breakfast, subject to the standards of section 32-300.15
- Child care facilities
- Community operated parks, clubhouses, swimming pools, racquet ball and tennis courts, health and fitness facilities, and other recreational or civic facilities, as secondary uses to a principal residential development, for the use of the residents of the development and others
- Country club
- Home business
- Private school
- Recovery home, subject to the standards of section 32-300.07.9
- Religious institution or place of religious worship, subject to standards in section 32-300.07.7
Accessory2
- Community operated parks, clubhouses, swimming pools, racquet ball and tennis courts, health and fitness facilities, and other recreational or civic facilities, as secondary uses to a principal residential development for the exclusive use of the residents of the development and their guests
- Satellite parking, secondary to a religious institution or place of religious worship only, with a Special Use Permit, subject to the standards of section 32-300.07.8
Extracted standards
4 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Environmental
- No residential lot in floodplainFloodplainLand expected to flood at a stated frequency, where building carries extra conditions./wetland/slopes
No portion of any residential lot shall be platted in the Chesapeake Bay Resource Protection Area, any nontidal wetland area, any 100-year floodplain, perimeter buffers, any major utility easement, or on slopes greater than 15 percent adjacent to a perennial stream.
Other
- Perimeter landscaped buffer width50 ft
A 50-foot wide perimeter landscaped buffer area surrounding the edge of suburban cluster developments shall be provided
- Maximum percentage of pipestem lots20 pct
No more than 20 percent of the total number of lots shall be pipestem lots.
- Maximum utility easement in open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted.10 pct
Land within a major utility easement or right-of-way for existing above-ground utilities shall not represent more than ten percent of the area needed to satisfy the open space requirement
From the ordinance
Cluster development of one-family dwellings may be permitted in the R-2 and R-4 residential districts if the following design criteria...