Rockingham County Unincorporated, Virginia · District
A-1
AgriculturalAll Rockingham County Unincorporated districts0
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right68
- agricultural production
- forestry
- agritourism
- agribusiness support
- agricultural operation
- agritourism activity
- Agriculture
- Animal, domestic
- Art gallery
- Buggy and harness shop, repair and sales
- Cab service
- Car wash
- Carpet and rug cleaning service
- Catering facility
- Church or other place of worship
- College, university
- Community garden
- Confined feedlot/loafing lot
- Correctional facility
- Dwelling, apartment building
- Dwelling, duplex
- Dwelling, live/work
- Dwelling, manufactured home
- Dwelling, rowhouse
- Dwelling, single-family detached
- Dwelling, single-family detached with independent living quarters
- Electronic data storage or processing center
- Farm brewery
- Farm building
- Farm cider mill
- Farm distillery
- Farm winery
- Fitness Center
- Golf driving range
- Greenhouse
- Hog operation
- Horse stable, commercial
- Hospice center
- Hospital
- Hotel or motel
- Housing management office
- Industry, light
- Laundry, dry cleaning, laundromat
- Mail services
- Motor vehicle parts sales
- Office
- On-farm activities
- Park, government owned
- Pit privies
- Poultry operation
- Public safety facility
- Radio or television station
- Railroad yard
- Recreational vehicle storage area
- Research facility
- Rooming house
- Sanitary landfill
- Service business, not otherwise listed
- Ski area
- Solar energy large, installed over impervious surfaces
- Solar energy, small
- Spa
- Sports complex
- Travel center
- Truck terminal
- Utility building, small
- Water storage tank
- Wind energy system, small-scale
Conditional / special use16
Accessory12
Extracted standards
4 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Accessory structures
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structures meet front setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
All accessory structures shall meet the front setback.
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. relative to primary
In the A-1, A-2, and RV zoning districts, accessory structures may be taller than the primary structure.
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structures permitted where lot widthLot widthHow wide a lot must be, usually measured at the front setback line. not achieved
In the A-1, A-2, and RV zoning districts, accessory structures shall be permitted where the lot width has not achieved the minimum.
Other
- Front setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. measurement when lot widthLot widthHow wide a lot must be, usually measured at the front setback line. not achieved
In the A-1, A-2, and RV zoning districts ... where a lot does not achieve the minimum lot width at the road frontage, the setback shall be measured at a right angle from the point where the minimum lot width is achieved.
From the ordinance
In the A-1, A-2, and RV zoning districts ... where a lot does not achieve the minimum lot width at the road frontage, the setback shall be measured at a right angle from the point where the minimum lot width is achieved. In the A-1, A-2, and RV zoning districts, accessory structures may be taller than the primary structure.