Washington County Unincorporated, Virginia · District
R-2
R-2 General Residential District
Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
- Three-family
- by_right
- Four-plus family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right19
- Any use permitted by right in the R-1 single-family residential district
- Cemeteries
- Churches and other places of worship
- Clubs and lodges
- Community buildings and community centers
- Country clubs, golf courses and swimming pools
- Day care centers
- Farms, truck gardens and nurseries
- Fire department offices and facilities, emergency medical rescue squad offices and facilities, law enforcement offices and facilities and other governmental offices and facilities
- Funeral homes and mortuaries
- Home occupations conducted by the occupant
- Hospitals
- Libraries and museums
- Parks and playgrounds
- Public schools and private schools having a curriculum equivalent to a public school
- Public utility facilities
- Single-family dwellings
- Swimming pools as an accessory use to a permitted use
- Utilities and public services
Conditional / special use8
- Day care center, including a day care center as home occupation
- Electrical power substations and telecommunication switching facilities
- Fire department offices and facilities, emergency medical rescue squad offices and facilities, law enforcement offices and facilities and other governmental offices and facilities
- General hospitals
- Golf courses
- Horse barn as an accessory use, noncommercial, to an on-site residential dwelling with a minimum of five acres of land
- Rest homes and group homes
- Water and wastewater treatment plants
Extracted standards
3 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Minimum width at setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. line for corner lots platted after 1971100 ft
For subdivisions platted after December 31, 1971, each corner lot in the R-2 district shall have a minimum width at the setback line of 100 feet.
- Minimum 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 side yard on the side facing the side street in the R-2 district shall be 35 feet or more for both main and accessory buildings.
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. of vision obstruction in corner lot triangle3 ft
No sign, fence, wall, hedge, planting or other obstruction to vision, extending to a height in excess of three feet above the established street grade, shall be erected, planted or maintained in the R-2 district within the area of a corner lot...
From the ordinance
Permitted uses: single-family, two-family, multifamily dwellings, townhouses if public water/sewer... Frontage 80 ft... Setback 35 ft... Side yard 10 ft, rear 25 ft, height 35 ft.