Municipality · Virginia

Harrisonburg

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17
Districts
91
Extracted rules
514
Standards
37
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Zoning districts

17 districts, grouped by category.

General provisions

74 rules that bind every district rather than one — sign regulations, parking, floodplain and the rest of the code’s citywide chapters.

Article BB, Sec. 10-3-189 to 10-3-19415 standards

Business gardens shall be no larger than 50% of parcel area, maintain 5-foot separation from property lines unless enclosed with wall/fence at least 3 feet high, and require home occupation permit.

Article D, Sec. 10-3-14 through 10-3-1914 standards

Site plan review shall be required in addition to the other applicable requirements of this Code before building permits will be issued. ... An approved site plan shall expire and be null and void unless a building permit ... issued within a period of five (5) years.

Article E, Sec. 10-3-20 to 10-3-227 standards

Nonconforming land, buildings, and structures and the uses thereof may be continued only so long as: (1) The then-existing or a more restricted use continues; (2) Such use is not discontinued for more than two (2) years; and, (3) The buildings or structures are maintained in their then structural condition.

Article FF, Sec. 10-3-21914 standards

Construction and maintenance of beehives for the purpose of keeping honeybees is allowed as an accessory use, subject to the regulations set forth in this article, on any property occupied by a single-family detached dwelling or determined to have a nonconforming agricultural use.

Article V, Sec. 10-3-124 through 10-3-1317 standards

Special use permits are those which, if not specially regulated, may have an undue impact on or be incompatible with other uses of land within or adjacent to a given zoning district. Upon the granting of a special use permit by city council, these uses may be allowed to locate or expand within designated zoning districts under the standards, controls, limitations, performance criteria, restrictions and other regulations of this article.

Article W, Sec. 10-3-132 through 10-3-13911 standards

There shall be a board of zoning appeals ... which shall consist of five (5) members, each to be a resident of the city and each to be appointed by the circuit court of the city for terms of five (5) years...

Article Y, Sec. 10-3-160 through 10-3-17613 standards

The Floodplain Zoning District is established as an overlay district. All regulations of the underlying zoning districts shall remain in full force and effect except that the regulations of this article shall apply to all lands within the Floodplain Zoning District.

Article Y, Sec. 10-3-160(c)24 standards

These provisions shall apply to all privately and publicly owned lands within the jurisdiction of the City of Harrisonburg and identified as areas of special flood hazard according to the flood insurance rate map (FIRM) that is provided to the City of Harrisonburg by FEMA.

Article Y, Sec. 10-3-168(a)2 standards

The Floodway District is in an AE Zone and is delineated... no encroachments, including fill, new construction, substantial improvements, or other development shall be permitted unless it has been demonstrated through hydrologic and hydraulic analysis... that the proposed encroachment will not result in any increase in flood levels.

Article Y, Sec. 10-3-168(b)1 standards

The AE Zones on the FIRM accompanying the FIS shall be those areas for which one-percent annual chance flood elevations have been provided and the floodway has not been delineated. ... no new construction, substantial improvements, or other development (including fill) shall be permitted within the areas of special flood hazard, designated as Zone AE on the FIRM, unless it is demonstrated that the cumulative effect of the proposed development... will not increase the water surface elevation of the base flood more than one (1) foot.

Definitions10 standards

Screening: Fences, decorative walls or other physical or structural enclosures used for screening shall be opaque to obstruct view of storage materials, with the finished face facing outside, and shall be at least six (6) feet in height with a maximum of eight (8) feet in height. If plant materials are used for screening purposes, they shall be three (3) to four (4) feet in height at planting time. Screening for parking lots and garages adjacent to public streets may be a minimum of four (4) feet in height.

Sec. 10-3-1108 standards

Architectural treatments and functional elements... shall be allowed to project not more than two (2) feet, eight (8) inches into the required yard setback...

Sec. 10-3-110(h)4 standards

Private refuse collection facilities (i.e. dumpsters, trash compactors, and areas storing multiple waste receptacles, etc.) shall meet the following requirements...

Sec. 10-3-1112 standards

The height limitations of this chapter shall not apply to the architectural features such as chimneys, spires, etc., and necessary accessory structures such as water towers, smoke-stacks and conveyors which are incidental to uses permitted in nonresidential districts.

Sec. 10-3-1124 standards

On through lots the rear yard of a lot improved with a main building shall be subject to building setback regulations for front yards.

Sec. 10-3-1139 standards

Each townhouse group of more than four (4) attached units shall have a minimum side yard setback of fifteen (15) feet for each end unit.

Sec. 10-3-1147 standards

Accessory buildings in residential districts may be built in a rear yard, but such accessory buildings shall not occupy more than thirty (30) percent of the required rear yard and shall not be less than five (5) feet from any interior side or rear lot line.

Sec. 10-3-1156 standards

No walls or fences within front yards shall exceed a height of six (6) feet as measured from grade at the front property line.

Sec. 10-3-1184 standards

Requests to amend the text and regulations of this chapter or to amend the text of the Comprehensive Plan shall be accompanied with a payment of four hundred fifty dollars ($450.00).

Sec. 10-3-119(e)2 standards

At least fourteen (14) days prior to the planning commission's public hearing on the pending application, the city shall erect on the subject property signs indicating a public hearing and a contact phone number...

Source documents

The chapters of the adopted code that were retrieved, read and extracted from. Everything above traces back to one of these.