Sussex County Unincorporated, Virginia · District
R-1
R-1 General Residential District
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right4
Conditional / special use7
- Two-family dwellings
- Multi-family dwellings
- Home occupations (office and child care)
- Public utilities, such as poles, lines, distribution transformers, pipes, meters, and/or other facilities necessary for the provision and maintenance of public utilities, including water and sewerage facilities
- Golf course, country club
- Hospitals, clinics, medical care facilities
- Planned unit developments (PUD)
Accessory1
- Accessory uses/structures provided there is an existing primary use/structure already located on the subject property
Prohibited1
Extracted standards
4 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. building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. near property line1 story
No accessory building which is within 20 feet of any lot line shall be more than one story high.
- Corner lot minimum width100 ft
Each corner lot shall have a minimum width at the setback line of 100 feet or more.
- Corner lot side street setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.50 ft
The side yard on the side facing the side street shall be 50 feet or more for both principal and accessory buildings.
- Dwelling heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. increase condition45 ft
The height limit for dwellings may be increased up to 45 feet and up to three stories if there are two side yards for each permitted use, each of which is 15 feet or more, plus one foot or more of side yard for each additional foot of building height over 35 feet.
From the ordinance
In the R-1 General Residential District, structures to be erected or land to be used shall be for one or more of the following uses... Buildings in the R-1 district may be erected up to 35 feet in height... The minimum lot area stated below shall not include areas identified as jurisdictional wetlands or areas located within a 100-year floodplain. For single-family dwellings, the minimum lot area shall be 15,000 square feet... Buildings in the R-1 district, including accessory uses, shall not cover more than 25 percent of the area of the lot... Structures in an R-1 district shall be located 50 feet or more from any street right-of-way... The minimum lot width in an R-1 district at the setback line shall be 100 feet or more... The minimum side yard for each principal structure in an R-1 district shall be 15 feet or more, and the total width of the two required side yards shall be 30 feet or more. Each main structure shall have a rear yard of 35 feet or more.