Rockingham County Unincorporated
Zoning districts
15 districts, grouped by category.
Agricultural
2Commercial
4- Max height
- 15 ft
- Permitted uses
- 12
- Max height
- 15 ft
- Permitted uses
- 10
Limited Commercial District
- Min lot
- 43,560 sq ft (1 ac)
- Max height
- 40 ft
- Front setback
- 30 ft
- Permitted uses
- 2
General Commercial District
- Min lot
- 43,560 sq ft (1 ac)
- Max height
- 50 ft
- Front setback
- 30 ft
Other
2Residential
6Single-Family Residential District
- Min lot
- 20,000 sq ft (0.46 ac)
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 30 ft
- Max density
- 2 du/ac
- Permitted uses
- 70
Single-Family Residential District
- Min lot
- 10,000 sq ft
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 25 ft
- Max density
- 4 du/ac
- Permitted uses
- 66
Residential District
- Min lot
- 7,500 sq ft
- Max height
- 40 ft
- Front setback
- 20 ft
- Max density
- 8 du/ac
- Permitted uses
- 55
Multi-Family Residential District
- Min lot
- 43,560 sq ft (1 ac)
- Max height
- 50 ft
- Front setback
- 25 ft
- Max density
- 16 du/ac
- Permitted uses
- 30
- Max height
- 75 ft
- Permitted uses
- 26
- Max height
- 15 ft
- Permitted uses
- 78
General provisions
300 rules that bind every district rather than one — sign regulations, parking, floodplain and the rest of the code’s citywide chapters.
The minimum lot size on which the auction facility is located shall be five (5) acres. No structure shall be located closer than fifty (50) feet to any property line. No livestock pens shall be located any closer than three hundred (300) feet from any property line.
No structure used for storage of biomass and no outside storage of biomass shall be located closer than one hundred fifty (150) feet to any property line and no closer than one hundred (100) feet from the travel surface of public roadways.
Up to a thirty thousand (30,000) gallon tank for the storage and distribution of liquid petroleum gas shall be permitted.
No recreational vehicle, camping sites, structure, or facility shall be located closer than one hundred (100) feet to any property line.
The interior floor area of the company store shall not exceed one thousand five hundred (1,500) square feet.
The area covered by all structures used in connection with such use, excluding a parking area, shall not exceed a total of five thousand (5,000) square feet.
Building shall be limited to no more than four thousand (4,000) square feet, and Customer seating shall comprise no more than twenty (20) percent of the convenience store square footage.
In the R-4, R-5, MXU, B-1, B-2, PCD, and PMR zoning districts, annual production shall be no more than two hundred fifty thousand (250,000) barrels of beer or ale.
Any enclosed area used for the accessory dwelling shall not exceed fifteen hundred (1,500) square feet. Only one (1) accessory dwelling shall be permitted per parcel.
No more than two (2) additional dwellings shall be allowed on parcels where there are at least fifteen (15) acres per additional dwelling.
The cumulative sign area for each unit shall not exceed four (4) square feet with no dimension of any individual sign greater than thirty-six (36) inches.
At a minimum, a four (4) foot by four (4) foot landing shall be required at each door
No more than eight (8) rowhouses shall be included in any rowhouse grouping.
No independent living quarters shall have a floor area in excess of six hundred (600) square feet or twenty-five (25) percent of the finished floor area of the existing dwelling in which it is located, whichever is greater
A temporary family health care structure shall be accessory to a primary single-family detached dwelling only. Only one (1) temporary family health care structure shall be permitted on any lot on which a single-family detached dwelling is located.
Hours of operation shall be from 6:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. and may continue until 1:00 a.m. Saturday and Sunday mornings and holidays provided the event is held entirely indoors so that light and sound generated by the event do not leave the premises after 11:00 p.m.
The wind energy system shall be set back a distance at least equal to one hundred ten (110) percent of the structure height from all adjacent property lines and a distance equal at least to one hundred fifty (150) percent of the structure height from any dwelling inhabited by humans on neighboring property.
In the R-1, R-2, R-3, PSF, PMF, R-4, R-5, MH-1, and MHP zoning districts, all wireless telecommunications facilities shall be stealth.
A yard sale shall be limited to a period of no more than three (3) consecutive days and no more than three (3) yard sales in a one-year period.
Total building area for any business shall not exceed two thousand five hundred (2,500) square feet.
Source documents
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