Claremont, Virginia · District
R-2
Vacation Residence District
Dimensional standards
Lot
- Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built.
- 30,000 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (0.69 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)
- Minimum lot depth
- 200 ft
Height & bulk
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right20
- Greenhouse, Private
- Roadside Stand
- Stable, Private
- Accessory Apartment
- Dwelling, Single-Family, Detached
- Family Day Care Home
- Group Home
- Home Occupation, Community
- Kennel, Private
- Temporary Emergency Housing
- Cemetery
- Community Center
- Community Recreation
- Park and Ride Facility
- Public Park and Recreational Area
- Religious Assembly
- Utility Service/Minor
- Real Estate Office, Temporary
- Studio, Fine Arts
- Amateur Radio Tower
Conditional / special use18
- Dwelling, Multifamily Conversion
- Manufactured Home, Class A
- Manufactured Home, Temporary Residence
- Windmill
- Condominium
- Dwelling, Single Family, Attached
- Dwelling, Two-Family
- Multifamily Dwelling
- Townhouse
- Crisis Center
- Day Care Center
- Educational Facility
- Public Facilities
- Utility Service/Major
- Convenience Store
- Marina
- Restaurant, General
- Alternate Discharge Sewage System
Extracted standards
1 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Maximum accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure size4 pct
Accessory structures shall not exceed four percent of the lot area not to exceed 2,000 square feet unless a special use permit is approved by the BZA.
From the ordinance
Min lot area 30,000 sq ft without public sewer/water, 10,000 sq ft with. Max height 2.5 stories/35 ft. Front setback 40 ft, side 15 ft, rear 25 ft. Accessory structures max 4% of lot area not to exceed 2,000 sq ft.