R-8
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right12
- Single-family detached dwellings
- Duplex dwellings
- Owner-occupied single-family dwellings with rental of space for not more than two persons (no new kitchen facilities)
- Nonowner-occupied single-family dwellings with rental of space for not more than one person (no new kitchen facilities)
- Home occupations
- Churches and other places of worship
- Public schools or private schools with substantially the same function
- Public uses
- Parks
- Small cell facilities
- Accessory buildings and uses clearly incidental to permitted uses
- Homestays
Conditional / special use12
- Attached townhouses of not more than eight (8) units
- Community buildings
- Major family day home
- Child day care
- Adult day care
- Short-term rentals
- Concealed wireless telecommunications facilities, industrial microcells, distributed antenna systems, and macrocells
- Walls and fences greater than the height otherwise permitted
- Reducing required parking areas
- Public uses which deviate from Title 10, Chapter 3
- Reduced required side yard setbacks to zero (0) feet for single-family detached, duplex, or townhomes with fire sprinklers or fire-resistant assembly
- Recovery residence of more than eight (8) adults
Accessory2
- Accessory buildings and uses clearly incidental to permitted uses
- Home occupations
Prohibited1
- Telecommunications towers (except towers for the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Emergency Communications Center up to 200 feet)
Extracted standards
8 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Density
- Maximum dwelling unitsDwelling unitOne independent home: its own kitchen, bathroom and entrance. per parcel1 unit
Only one dwelling unit may be constructed upon each subdivided parcel of land.
- Maximum townhouseTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot. units8 units
Attached townhouses of not more than eight (8) units permitted by special use permit.
Fencing & walls
- Fence heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. exceedance
Walls and fences greater than the height otherwise permitted require a special use permit.
Other
- Antenna heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. and location
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.
- Emergency communications tower heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.200 ft
Towers primarily erected for the use of the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Emergency Communications Center up to two hundred (200) feet in height.
- Private refuse collection facilities
Private refuse collection facilities shall be provided at a designated point and shall meet the requirements in section 10-3-110(h).
- Reduced side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. setbacksSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
Reduced required side yard setbacks to zero (0) feet for single-family detached, duplex, or townhomes when NFPA 13/13R/13D sprinklers installed or exterior wall has 1-hour fire-resistant assembly with fixed inoperable openings on first floor only.
Parking
Off-street parking regulations for all new buildings and uses permitted in this district are governed by Article G.
From the ordinance
This district is intended for medium- to high-density residential together with certain governmental, educational, religious, recreational, and utility uses subject to restrictions and requirements necessary to ensure compatibility with residential surroundings.