Rockingham County Unincorporated, Virginia · District
A-2
AgriculturalAll Rockingham County Unincorporated districts0
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right72
- agricultural production
- forestry
- agritourism
- agribusiness support
- agricultural operation
- agritourism activity
- Agriculture
- Animal, domestic
- Antique or craft shop
- Art gallery
- Buggy and harness shop, repair and sales
- Bus or rail terminal
- Car wash
- Catering facility
- Church or other place of worship
- College, university
- Community garden
- Community pool/sport court
- Confined feedlot/loafing lot
- Convenience store
- 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
- Farm brewery
- Farm building
- Farm cider mill
- Farm distillery
- Farm winery
- Fitness Center
- Golf course
- Golf driving range
- Greenhouse
- Hog operation
- Horse stable, commercial
- Hospice center
- Hospital
- Hotel or motel
- Housing management office
- Industry, light
- Laundry, commercial or industrial
- Laundry, dry cleaning, laundromat
- Mail services
- Medical office or clinic
- Motor vehicle sales lot
- Motor vehicle tow service
- Office
- Oil and gas extraction operation
- 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
- Retail use not otherwise listed
- Rooming house
- Service business, not otherwise listed
- Shooting range, indoor
- Solar energy large, installed over impervious surfaces
- Solar energy, small
- Spa
- Sports complex
- Truck terminal
- Utility building, small
- Water storage tank
- Wind energy system, small-scale
Conditional / special use21
- community-scale retail
- community-scale service
- community-scale recreational
- farm market
- feed mill
- funeral home, crematory (expansion)
- impound lots
- livestock sales facility
- machinery and equipment center
- meat processing facility
- medical office or clinic
- metal-working facility
- motor vehicle repair shop
- nursery
- parking facilities
- research facility
- restaurant
- storage containers
- taxidermy
- temporary structure
- warehouse
Accessory12
Extracted standards
5 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.
- Through lot front setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. on both frontages
In the A-1 and A-2 zoning districts, primary and accessory buildings shall meet front setbacks on both street frontages.
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 and A-2 zoning districts, primary and accessory buildings shall meet front setbacks on both street frontages. In the A-1, A-2, and RV zoning districts, accessory structures may be taller than the primary structure.