Shenandoah County Unincorporated, Virginia · District
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Agriculture District
Dimensional standards
Lot
Uses
Permitted by right25
- General farming, agriculture, dairying and forestry
- Conservation preserves
- Single-family detached dwellings
- Manufactured houses on permanent foundations
- Schools, churches, parks, playgrounds, fire and rescue squad stations, libraries, cemeteries, office buildings and other similar public and semipublic uses
- Sawmills or pulpwood concentration yards
- Public safety tower
- Country or general stores
- Livestock markets
- Lines, poles and pipes to provide electric, gas, telephone, water and sewer service
- Roadside stand or market
- Veterinary hospitals
- Retail greenhouse and nursery operations under 10,000 square feet
- Cat shelters
- Storage buildings or sheds
- Recreational vehicle (max 30 consecutive days, removed 14 days)
- Open space developments
- Wineries
- Small-scale energy facility
- Family day homes
- Farm breweries
- Agritourism-related activities (no substantial impact)
- Farm distillery
- Homeshares
- Short-term rentals (≤4 bedrooms)
Conditional / special use40
- Lodges, hunting clubs, camps, golf and country clubs
- Level 2 home business
- Garages, public
- Farm, lawn and garden machinery and equipment sales and service
- Public utility generating, booster or relay stations, transformer substations, railroads, water and sewerage installations, telephone facilities
- Airports, commercial and private
- Recreational uses or facilities (commercial or private membership)
- Commercial slaughterhouse
- Rendering plant
- Blacksmith shop
- Conversion of single residential structure to max 4 dwelling units (pre-1978)
- Motor vehicle towing service
- Bulk petroleum products storage and distribution
- Nursing homes and adult-care centers
- Asphalt mixing plants
- Flea market
- Mobile home or manufactured housing parks
- Motor vehicle impoundment lots
- Retail greenhouse and nursery operations over 10,000 square feet
- Manufacture of deli sandwiches
- Off-street parking area as a main use
- Personal service establishments under 1,500 square feet
- Telecommunications towers
- Special event centers
- Dormitory housing for farm workers
- Museums
- Conversion to bed-and-breakfast (≥900 ft from poultry/hog facilities)
- Child day centers
- Corporate training centers
- Country inns
- Rural resorts
- Wholesale bakeries
- Cold storage of plant and animal cultures
- Temporary electric service
- Ice cream stand
- Wastewater treatment discharging facility
- Agritourism-related activities (substantial impact)
- Kennel, commercial
- Large-scale energy facility
- Short-term rentals (5+ bedrooms)
From the ordinance
Minimum lot area 1 1/2 acres; average parcel size for sub parcels no less than 10 acres.