R-4
Dimensional standards
Lot
- Minimum lot depth
- 112 ft
Height & bulk
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
- Three-family
- by_right
- Four-plus family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right12
- any use permitted by right in R-1 and R-2 residential districts
- dwelling units occupied by a family or not more than 4 persons
- attached multiple-family buildings of not more than 12 units
- attached townhouses of not more than 8 units
- nonresidential uses (small shops, stores, offices) limited to 10% of plan and 2,000 sqft each
- accessory buildings and uses clearly incidental
- child day care centers
- adult day care centers
- public uses
- community buildings for associated townhouse and multiple-family developments
- small cell facilities
- homestays
Conditional / special use9
- private clubs and golf courses
- community buildings (other than those permitted by right)
- concealed wireless telecommunications facilities, industrial microcells, distributed antenna systems, and macrocells
- major family day home
- walls and fences greater than the height otherwise permitted
- reducing required parking areas
- public uses which deviate from requirements
- short-term rentals
- recovery residence of more than 8 adults
Prohibited2
- nonresidential uses which customarily depend on drive-in facilities
- telecommunications towers (except towers for Harrisonburg-Rockingham Emergency Communications Center up to 200 ft)
Extracted standards
14 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Antenna heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. restriction
Attached or detached private radio and television antennas, including dish antennas, shall not exceed the maximum height otherwise permitted in all districts and shall not be permitted in front yards.
- Drive-in facilities prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
Nonresidential uses which customarily depend on drive-in facilities are not permitted.
- Front facade orientation
The front facade of each principal building shall face a dedicated public street or the limits of a private parking unit (as defined) and no building shall have the rear facade along a dedicated public street.
- Maximum units in attached multiple-family building12 units
Attached multiple-family buildings of not more than twelve (12) units
- Maximum gross leasable area per commercial use2,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
no singular commercial use exceeds two thousand (2,000) square feet of gross leasable area
- Maximum nonresidential area10 pct
Nonresidential uses... concentrated within an area not to exceed ten (10) percent of the plan of development
- Maximum occupancy per dwelling unitDwelling unitOne independent home: its own kitchen, bathroom and entrance.4 persons
Dwelling units may be occupied by a family or not more than four (4) persons
- Maximum units in attached townhouseTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot. building8 units
attached townhouses of not more than eight (8) units
- Minimum building separation20 ft
The open spaces between each building as measured at the closest point between building walls shall not be less than twenty (20) feet.
- Minimum contiguous acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones. for districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.25 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
planned residential neighborhoods containing not less than twenty-five (25) contiguous acres
Designated open green space other than required parking areas shall be at least fifteen (15) percent of any plan of development.
- Refuse collection facility requirement
Private refuse collection facilities shall be provided at a designated point and shall meet the requirements in section 10-3-110(h).
- Telecommunications towers prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance. except emergency
Telecommunications towers are not permitted, except towers primarily erected for the use of the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Emergency Communications Center up to two hundred (200) feet in height.
- Uses must be in location shown on approved plan
Uses in an R-4 District shall be permissible only in the location shown on the approved plan of development.
From the ordinance
R-4 Planned Unit Residential District regulations including uses, dimensional standards, and other requirements.