Shenandoah County Unincorporated

No more than 30% of the lot area shall be occupied by buildings. The maximum height of any building shall be 35 feet. No fewer than 4.25 automobile parking spaces... for each 1,000 gross square feet of building floor area.

Television and/or radio towers shall be prohibited from using white flashing aviation obstruction lights, except that a dual lighting system... shall be permitted.

No special event shall be conducted for a period longer in duration than three consecutive days. ... special event centers with indoor events spaces shall provide a minimum of one parking space... for each 200 square feet of floor area in rooms used by event participants for assembly.

to allow the keeping of livestock, poultry, and apiaries as an accessory use to a single-family dwelling on lots within the Rural Residential — Conservation (RR-C), Rural Residential — Agriculture (RR-A), Low-Density Residential (R-1), and Medium-Density Residential (R-2) Districts

All homeshares and/or short-term rentals, where allowed, shall comply with the following requirements... All non-dwellings and related structures must meet a setback of at least 50 feet from any adjoining property lines.

PUBLIC SAFETY TOWER: ... shall be exempt from area, frontage, yard (setback), building coverage, and height regulations.

SCREEN BUFFER: ... One of three levels of screen buffer, or any other type of screening, may be required by the approving body at the time of special use permit or site plan approval.

SIGN, FREESTANDING/GROUND-MOUNTED: ... One freestanding sign shall be permitted per lot.

SIGN, DOUBLE-FACED: A sign with two parallel planes, surfaces or faces, back-to-back, and located not more than 24 inches from each other.

SMOKESTACK: A pipe, funnel, or other structure through which smoke or other gases are discharged at a height greater than 45 feet.

CHIMNEY: A flue, pipe, funnel, or other structure through which smoke or other gases are discharged at a height of 45 feet or less.

CRITICAL SLOPE: Slopes of 15% or greater ... Class I are critical slopes that are 25% or greater. Class II are critical slopes that are between 20% and 25%. Class III are critical slopes that are between 15% and 20%.

WILDLIFE CORRIDOR: Corridors 600 feet in width identified on the Official Wildlife Corridor Map of Shenandoah County.

WILDLIFE HABITAT CORE: Clusters of 100 acres of forest separated from other land uses and human development by 300 feet ...

WILDLIFE HABITAT EDGE: The 300 feet of edge of wildlife habitat cores and/or wildlife corridors ...

RIDGE AREA: All land within 100 vertical feet of a ridgeline as identified by the County's Official Ridgeline Map.

DENSELY SETTLED AREA: An area composed of five or more parcels of less than six acres each, which are contiguous to each other and on each of which is situated an existing dwelling, school, church and/or nonagricultural use.

BUILDING ENVELOPE: An area not greater than 20% of the total lot area, shown for all lots within an open space development subdivision, which defines the area on the lot within which the principal structure must be built.

CONSERVATION LOT: A permanently preserved open space lot of not less than 30 acres in area that is created as part of an open space development subdivision, as specified in § 165-73, and which may be developed with one principal residential dwelling and other uses as provided in § 165-73D.

TOWNHOUSE: ... said building consisting of not less than three nor more than eight attached dwelling units ... each dwelling unit shall be separated by an unpierced party wall going to the roof and contain at least two and not more than 2 1/2 stories; and each dwelling unit having at least one separate entrance from the outside.