Harrisonburg
Zoning districts
17 districts, grouped by category.
Commercial
3Other
2Industrial
2Residential
10Manufactured Home Park District
- Min lot
- 4,200 sq ft
- Max height
- 15 ft
- Front setback
- 10 ft
- Permitted uses
- 6
Manufactured Home Subdivision District
- Min lot
- 217,800 sq ft (5 ac)
- Max height
- 15 ft
- Front setback
- 20 ft
- Permitted uses
- 6
R-1 Single-Family Residential District
- Min lot
- 10,000 sq ft
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 30 ft
- Max density
- 7.26 du/ac
- Permitted uses
- 10
R-2 Residential District
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Front setback
- 30 ft
- Permitted uses
- 6
Multiple Dwelling Residential District
- Min lot
- 6,000 sq ft
- Max height
- 40 ft
- Front setback
- 30 ft
- Permitted uses
- 16
Planned Unit Residential District
- Max height
- 40 ft
- Front setback
- 30 ft
- Permitted uses
- 12
High Density Residential District
- Min lot
- 6,000 sq ft
- Max height
- 40 ft
- Front setback
- 10 ft
- Permitted uses
- 14
Low Density Mixed Residential Planned Community District
- Max height
- 35 ft
- Max density
- 6 du/ac
- Permitted uses
- 16
Medium Density Mixed Residential Planned Community
- Max height
- 50 ft
- Max density
- 15 du/ac
- Permitted uses
- 19
Small Lot Residential District
- Min lot
- 6,000 sq ft
- Max height
- 40 ft
- Front setback
- 10 ft
- Permitted uses
- 12
General provisions
74 rules that bind every district rather than one — sign regulations, parking, floodplain and the rest of the code’s citywide chapters.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Architectural treatments and functional elements... shall be allowed to project not more than two (2) feet, eight (8) inches into the required yard setback...
Private refuse collection facilities (i.e. dumpsters, trash compactors, and areas storing multiple waste receptacles, etc.) shall meet the following requirements...
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.
On through lots the rear yard of a lot improved with a main building shall be subject to building setback regulations for front yards.
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.
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.
No walls or fences within front yards shall exceed a height of six (6) feet as measured from grade at the front property line.
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).
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...
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