Washington County Unincorporated, Virginia · District
A-1
Agricultural, Limited, District A-1
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right14
- Agriculture, general farming, dairying, greenhouses and forestry
- Agritourism
- Cemeteries
- Ecotourism, minor
- Home occupations
- Lodges, private clubs, and golf clubs
- Lumber and building supply (with storage under cover)
- Manufactured homes
- Parks and playgrounds, preserves and conservation areas
- Schools and churches
- Single-family and two-family dwellings
- Small boat docks (with repairs) and yacht clubs
- Utilities and public services
- Veterinarian clinics and related services
Conditional / special use15
- Day care centers, rest homes and group homes
- Ecotourism, major
- Fire department offices and facilities
- Gas wells
- General stores
- Land application of human waste sludge
- Off-site uses related to airport safety
- Pawnbroker, precious metals dealer
- Permanent manufactured home parks
- Private landing strip
- Recreation, commercial
- Sawmills, planing mills, agriculturally related businesses, light industry
- Taxi stands
- Trash disposal convenience site
- Water and wastewater treatment plants
Extracted standards
2 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. structure setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from property line5 ft
No accessory structure may be closer than five feet to any property line.
- Side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. on side street for corner lots35 ft
The minimum side yard on the side facing the side street in the A-1 district shall be 35 feet for both main and accessory buildings.
From the ordinance
Minimum lot area 2 acres; 1 acre with public water. Setback 35 ft from ROW. Side yard 15 ft, rear 35 ft. Frontage 150 ft.