Kilmarnock, Virginia · District
R-2
Residential District R-2
Dimensional standards
Lot
Density
Height & bulk
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
- Three-family
- by_right
- Four-plus family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right26
- single-family dwellings
- two-family dwellings
- multifamily dwellings
- townhouses
- roominghouses
- tourist homes
- boardinghouses
- schools
- churches
- playgrounds
- professional offices
- home occupations
- off-street parking
- accessory buildings
- public utilities
- real estate signs
- church bulletin boards and identification signs
- travel trailers (storage only)
- temporary signs
- home occupation signs
- identification signs
- fences
- accredited residential care facility
- bed and breakfasts
- yard sales (with administrative permit)
- small solar energy systems
Conditional / special use1
Accessory1
Prohibited1
Extracted standards
5 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
Accessory buildings over one story in height shall be at least ten feet from any lot line.
- Minimum open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. per dwelling unitDwelling unitOne independent home: its own kitchen, bathroom and entrance.600 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Each multiple-family dwelling shall provide 600 square feet of usable open space per dwelling unit.
- TownhouseTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot. minimum lot widthLot widthHow wide a lot must be, usually measured at the front setback line.25 ft
Lot widths reduced to a minimum of 25 feet at the setback line for townhouses.
- TownhouseTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot. minimum rear yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates.20 ft
Each main structure shall be a minimum of 20 feet from the rear lot line.
- TownhouseTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot. side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates.5 ft
Side yards shall be five feet from the property line of adjacent development to the closest townhouse structure.
From the ordinance
Min lot area 10,000 sq ft for single-family; multifamily 20,000 for first two units plus 15,000 per additional; setback 20 ft; side yard 8 ft; rear 25 ft; height 3 stories/35 ft; lot coverage 30%; density 8 units/acre; no mobile homes.