Southampton County Unincorporated, Virginia · District
A-1
Agricultural District
AgriculturalAll Southampton County Unincorporated districts0
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right1
Conditional / special use28
- Detached single-family dwelling or manufactured home on a farm of 50 acres or more for farm labor
- Canine training facility, commercial
- Industrialized buildings (special use exception)
- Airports and landing fields, heliports or helistops
- Camps, day or boarding, church camp, scout camp
- Camping area or campgrounds
- Cemeteries not accessory to a church
- Convalescent homes, nursing homes, homes for the aged, family care homes
- Country inn with more than 4 guest rooms
- Dog kennels, commercial
- Extraction and processing of sand, gravel, stone; borrow pits
- Public utility buildings, treatment plants, water storage tanks, pumping or regulator stations, major transmission lines, storage yards and sub-stations
- Firewood operation
- General advertising sign (special exception)
- Hospital or clinic for humans
- Hunting club, commercial
- Livestock auction market
- Lodges
- Marina or yacht club
- Nursery schools, kindergartens, child care centers
- Peanut or grain buying station
- Private schools, colleges, universities
- Public or governmental buildings and uses
- Radio or television tower more than 125 feet in height
- Amusement parks, event venues, fairs, circuses and carnivals
- Rifle or pistol range, trap or skeet shooting
- Sanitary land fill or refuse collection site
- Sawmill, temporary
Extracted standards
1 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Pasture requirement per horse
one (1) acre of fenced pasture for the first horse and one (1) additional acre of fenced pasture for each additional horse.
From the ordinance
Horses for private, non-commercial use shall only be held on properties in the A-1 and A-2, agricultural, zoning districts as a permitted use; in the R-1, Residential and RR, Rural Residential zoning districts as permitted only upon issuance of a conditional use permit. The minimum lot size for the keeping of horses for private use shall be two (2) acres...