Shenandoah County Unincorporated, Virginia · District
R-3
High-Density Residential
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right13
- Single-family detached dwellings
- Two-family dwellings
- Rooming house or boardinghouse
- Tourist home
- 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 service
- Open space developments
- Small-scale energy facility
- Family day homes
- Public safety tower
- Homeshares
- Short-term rentals (≤4 bedrooms)
Conditional / special use18
- Level 1 and Level 2 home business
- Public utility generating, booster or relay stations, transformer substations, railroads, water and sewerage installations, telephone facilities
- Mobile home or manufactured housing parks
- Hospitals, nursing homes, and adult-care centers
- Clinics
- Townhouses (per Article VII)
- Multifamily dwelling (apartments) (per Article VIII)
- Conversion of single residential structure to max 4 dwelling units (pre-1978)
- Professional offices and office buildings
- Flea market
- Country club and amenities
- Telecommunications towers
- Large-scale energy facility
- Child day centers
- Recreational vehicle (max 30 consecutive days, removed 14 days)
- Temporary electric service
- Wastewater treatment discharging 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
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. dwelling smaller than principal
One accessory dwelling, smaller than the principal dwelling, per lot provided that the accessory dwelling is considered an accessory building and meets the setbacks for an accessory building.
- 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 100 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 area 20,000 sq ft; frontage 100 ft; front yard 35 ft; side 10 ft; rear 25 ft; max height 35 ft; max coverage 35%.