Fredericksburg
Zoning districts
9 districts, grouped by category.
Industrial
2Residential
6Residential District
- Front setback
- 125 ft
- Permitted uses
- 6
R-4 Residential District
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Max density
- 4 du/ac
- Permitted uses
- 1
R-8 Residential District
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Max density
- 8 du/ac
- Permitted uses
- 2
General provisions
276 rules that bind every district rather than one — sign regulations, parking, floodplain and the rest of the code’s citywide chapters.
Buildings and structures within this zone shall have the lowest floor elevated to or above the base flood elevation plus 1.5 feet of freeboard, and must comply with the provisions in Subsection C(1)(a)[2] and Subsection D(2) and (3).
All new construction and substantial improvements in Zones V and VE, including manufactured homes, shall be elevated on pilings or columns so that the bottom of the lowest horizontal structural member of the lowest floor is elevated to or above the base flood level plus 1.5 feet...
Outdoor display or sales may be allowed as an accessory use for all retail sales and service uses and wholesale sales uses.
Outdoor storage may be allowed as an accessory use in accordance with the following standards:
It is the intent of this subsection to prohibit the customary or continual parking of commercial or other vehicles engaged in activity exceeding personal transport on streets and within yards adjacent to streets in residential neighborhoods.
Satellite dish antennas shall be allowed in all zoning districts as an accessory use, but may only be erected, altered, raised, or relocated in accordance with a certificate of zoning use issued by the Zoning Administrator.
Solar energy equipment shall comply with the following standards:
The Zoning Administrator may issue a zoning permit for one temporary family health care structure per parcel upon receipt of proof of compliance with the requirements of Code of Virginia § 15.2-2292.1.
A zoning permit may be issued for a period beginning no earlier than 30 days prior to the issuance of building/grading permits and terminating no later than 20 days after issuance of a certificate of occupancy.
A zoning permit may be issued for a period not to exceed a total of 120 days per calendar year.
Portable storage containers may be allowed in any residential district for a period not to exceed 90 days in any twelve-month period.
A zoning permit may be issued for a period not to exceed 30 consecutive days.
A zoning permit may continue until the sale or lease of all dwelling units in the development, but in no event shall the time exceed two years.
No zoning permit, and no special use permit or special exception shall be required in order for an individual to lawfully erect a tent on private property.
Yard sales and associated temporary signs shall be permitted in all residential districts subject to the following conditions:
Vehicular use areas, whether the principal or accessory use of a lot or parcel of land, shall not be used for vehicle storage, vehicle sales, vehicle repairs, vehicle service, or vehicle display.
Floodplain studies shall be prepared for drainage areas exceeding 100 acres. The one-hundred-year rainfall curve shall be used, with an eighteen-inch freeboard added to the computed water level.
All utilities provided by the developer shall be installed underground... Minimum easement width... sanitary sewer: 20 feet and water: 15 feet...
Plantings shall comply with the following standards: Deciduous canopy or shade trees shall be a minimum of 1.5 inches in caliper... Evergreen trees shall be a minimum of three feet in height... When fewer than 20 trees are required, at least three different genera shall be used...
All parking lots with containing more than 12 parking spaces shall provide and maintain landscaped planting areas... Landscape islands shall be provided at a minimum rate of one island per every 12 parking spaces... minimum size of 180 square feet for single-loaded parking bays... minimum width of a perimeter landscaping strip... eight feet.
Source documents
The chapters of the adopted code that were retrieved, read and extracted from. Everything above traces back to one of these.