Elkton, Virginia · District
R-6
High-Density Residential District R-6
Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
- Three-family
- by_right
- Four-plus family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right7
- multiple-family dwellings, apartments and single-family dwellings (max 12 units)
- professional offices in structures similar in character with surrounding neighborhoods
- tourist homes
- public water and sewage facilities
- public service or storage buildings
- public utilities
- modular homes
Conditional / special use15
- general hospitals
- schools
- churches and other places of worship with attendant educational recreational facilities
- public parks, playgrounds, recreational facilities, tennis courts, public swimming pools and outdoor recreational activities, all of a noncommercial nature
- child-care centers, and family day-care homes
- commercial operations (with conditions)
- boardinghouses
- family care homes, foster homes or group homes serving the mentally retarded, developmentally disabled or others, rest homes, homes for adults, or nursing homes
- clubs, fraternities, lodges and meeting places of other organizations
- commercial radio wave antenna towers
- bed-and-breakfast facilities, limited
- multiple-family dwellings of more than 12 units per acre or more than 12 units per building (special use)
- transitional housing facility/living center
- other uses of the same general character
- accessory apartment
Accessory6
- living quarters of persons principally employed on the premises
- travel trailers
- temporary buildings or office trailers
- signs
- parking
- home occupations
Extracted standards
4 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- HeightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. increase to 45 feet and 3 storiesStoreysHabitable floor levels. Whether a basement or attic counts is defined by the local code.
The height limit for dwellings may be increased up to a maximum of 45 feet and up to three stories, provided that each side yard is 20 feet, plus one foot or more of side yard for each additional foot of building height over 35 feet.
- Public/semipublic building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.60 ft
A public or semipublic building, such as a school, church, or library, may be erected to a height of 60 feet from grade, provided that required front, side, and rear yards shall be increased one foot for each foot in height over 35 feet.
Other
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. building setbacksSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
Accessory buildings and uses: 20 feet from main building. Side yard: 10 feet. Rear yard: 10 feet. Height: 35 feet.
Setback
- Corner lot side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. addition15 ft
Add 15 feet for corner lots.
From the ordinance
Setback: 30 feet. Frontage at setback: 50 feet. Rear yard: 25 feet. Maximum height: 35 feet. Accessory buildings: 20 feet from main building, side yard 10 feet, rear yard 10 feet, height 35 feet.