Shenandoah County Unincorporated, Virginia · District
R-1
Low-Density Residential
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right11
- Single-family detached dwellings (including double-wide mobile homes if running gear removed and permanent foundations)
- Public or private schools
- Parks and playgrounds, cemeteries, police stations, fire and rescue squad stations, churches, libraries and other similar public and semipublic uses
- Lines, poles and pipes to provide electric, gas, telephone, water and sewer
- Open space developments
- Family day homes
- Public safety tower
- Residential farms
- Small-scale energy facility
- Homeshares
- Short-term rentals (≤4 bedrooms)
Conditional / special use15
- Level 2 home business
- Public utility generating, booster or relay stations, transformer substations, railroads, water and sewerage installations, telephone facilities
- Conversion of single residential structure to max 4 dwelling units (pre-1978)
- Country or general store
- Professional office and office building
- Flea market
- Telecommunications towers
- Nursing homes and adult-care centers
- Conversion to bed-and-breakfast (≥900 ft from poultry/hog facilities)
- Child day centers
- Recreational vehicle (max 30 consecutive days, removed 14 days)
- Temporary electric service
- Wastewater treatment discharging facility
- Large-scale energy facility
- Short-term rentals (5+ bedrooms)
Extracted standards
3 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. dwelling size1,200 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
One accessory dwelling which shall not exceed a total of 1,200 square feet of finished livable floor area per lot.
- Corner lot requirements
Front of corner lot is shortest side facing streets; setback equal to front along all roads; side setback on other sides; yard facing side street 35 ft; min width 150 ft; min frontage on both roadways.
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from industrial-zoned districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.100 ft
No residential structure shall be constructed closer than 100 feet to any adjacent property line if that property is an industrial-zoned district or contains an industrial use; may reduce to 50 ft side/60 ft rear with screen buffer.
From the ordinance
Minimum lot size 30,000 sq ft; frontage 125 ft; front yard 35 ft; side 15 ft; rear 30 ft; max height 35 ft; max coverage 25%.