Shenandoah County Unincorporated, Virginia · District
R-4
Rural Growth Residential District
Dimensional standards
Lot
Height & bulk
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right11
- single-family detached dwelling (excluding manufactured houses)
- two-family dwelling
- public or private schools
- parks and playgrounds, cemeteries, police stations, fire and rescue squad stations, churches, libraries
- lines, poles and pipes
- open space developments
- small-scale energy facility
- family day homes
- public safety tower
- homeshares
- short-term rentals (≤4 bedrooms)
Conditional / special use14
- Level 1 and Level 2 home business
- public utility generating, booster or relay stations
- hospitals, nursing homes, and adult-care centers
- clinics
- professional offices and office buildings
- flea markets
- telecommunications towers
- bed-and-breakfast (min 900 ft from poultry)
- child day centers
- recreational vehicle
- temporary electric service
- wastewater treatment discharging facility
- large-scale energy facility
- short-term rentals (5+ bedrooms)
Extracted standards
4 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Corner lot minimum width75 ft
Each corner lot shall have a minimum width of 75 feet.
- Corner lot side street setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.35 ft
The yard facing the side street shall be 35 feet or more for both main and accessory buildings.
- 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; however, this distance may be reduced to 50 feet for side or 60 feet for rear yards if a screen buffer consisting of total screening is provided.
- Two-family lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built.12,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
The minimum lot area for lots on which there is a two-family dwelling shall be 12,000 square feet.
From the ordinance
The minimum lot area for lots zoned R-4 shall be 8,000 square feet, provided that lots within any subdivision shall average at least 10,000 square feet.