Vienna
Zoning districts
3 districts, grouped by category.
General provisions
322 rules that bind every district rather than one — sign regulations, parking, floodplain and the rest of the code’s citywide chapters.
The Town Council may amend, supplement, or change the provisions of this Chapter, zone boundaries; or it may rezone property.
No application for any change to the same or a less restricted classification of zoning of the same lot, plot, parcel, or portion thereof, shall be considered by the Town Council and the Planning Commission within twelve (12) months of the final action of the Town Council upon the prior application.
Development of, redevelopment of, or modifications to property must be approved through one of the following site plan types prior to the issuance of a building permit or commencing excavation.
Applications for minor changes to site plans must be for projects that have less than 2,500 square feet of land disturbance and not require Modifications of Requirements per § 18-830. All new site plans, new structures, and site plans with land disturbance of 2,500 square feet or more are considered major site plans.
Applications for a building permit or certificate of occupancy in the Corporate Park District (Article 2, § 18-227) that is not in accordance with the approved site plan of development for the property, must first submit an amendment to the site plan
Any changes to a site plan for properties zoned Parks and Recreational (PR) (Article 2, § 18-232) or Parks and Conservation (PC) (Article 2, § 18-233) must be approved by Town Council.
Any changes to a site plan for properties zoned Parks and Recreational (PR) (Article 2, § 18-232) or Parks and Conservation (PC) (Article 2, § 18-233) must be approved by Town Council.
Developments proposed within the Avenue Center Overlay Zone that intend to utilize the bonus modification incentives identified in § 18-235 must submit a site plan to the Department of Planning and Zoning.
Developments proposed within the Church Street Vision Overlay Zone that intend to utilize the bonus modification incentives identified in Article 2, § 18-236 must submit a site plan to the Department of Planning and Zoning.
No permit for a Portable Storage Container is valid for greater than thirty (30) days.
No permit for a Portable Storage Container is valid for greater than thirty (30) days. No lot may have a Portable Storage Container Permit for longer than a total of thirty (30) days in any consecutive twelve (12) month period.
A temporary use permit is required for the temporary use of any property as specified in this Chapter.
The Town Council may approve, for a period of up to three years, a public-use trailer or manufactured home for temporary public use
The Town Council may approve, for a period of up to three years, a public-use trailer or manufactured home for temporary public use upon finding that such installation complies with the applicable provisions of this chapter and is consistent with the conditions of any permit for the principal use issued pursuant to Article 3.
A permit is required for the use of trailers for public use or temporary residential use as specified in this Chapter.
Review by the Windover Heights Board of Review is required before the issuance of a building permit or zoning permit for the following actions within the Windover Heights Historic District:
Review by the Windover Heights Board of Review is required before the issuance of a building permit or zoning permit for the following actions within the Windover Heights Historic District: Erection of a building, accessory building, structure, fence, or sign. Changing or altering the exterior architectural character of an existing building, accessory building, or structure to that degree which requires obtaining a building permit.
The Code of Virginia empowers the Zoning Administrator to interpret the Zoning Ordinance when there is a need for clarity in the application and administration of zoning regulations, either generally or as applied to a specific property.
The Board of Zoning Appeals is authorized to interpret the zoning map where there is any uncertainty as to the location of a district boundary.
Any variance authorized by the board to permit the erection or alteration of a building or structure shall be valid only for six months.
Source documents
The chapters of the adopted code that were retrieved, read and extracted from. Everything above traces back to one of these.