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Dimensional standards
Lot
Density
- Maximum density
- 0.07 du/acredu/acreDwelling units per acre — the number of homes allowed on each acre of land.
- Lot area per dwelling unitLot area per dwelling unitLand required for each home — the same limit as du/acre, expressed per unit instead of per acre.
- 653,400 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (15 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)
Uses
Permitted by right17
- Agricultural, aquacultural and horticultural operations, including orchards, vineyards, nurseries and the raising and grazing of livestock, poultry and swine and the keeping of bees
- Agritourism activities meeting the requirements of subsection (c)
- Child care education centers in connection with public or private elementary schools or religious uses
- Columbarium located in cemetery
- Dwelling, single-family addition
- Fish hatcheries and fish ponds
- Forests and forestry
- Game preserves
- Home-based wildlife rehabilitation facilities
- Public elementary, intermediate and high schools, colleges and universities; day nurseries in connection with public or private elementary schools or religious uses
- Public parks, recreational areas, botanical and zoological gardens, golf courses, marinas and other public buildings and uses
- Public utility installations and substations
- Recreational and amusement activities, as specified in and subject to the provisions of subsection (c)
- Small wireless facilities not placed on existing structures
- Wells, water reservoirs, and water control structures
- Wind energy conversion systems, freestanding, except as provided below
- Wind energy conversion systems, roof-mounted, except as provided below
Conditional / special use29
- Airports, heliports and helistops
- Animal hospitals, pounds, shelters, commercial and residential kennels
- Antique shops within buildings listed on the Virginia Beach Historical Register
- Assembly uses
- Borrow pit
- Cemetery, columbarium, crematory and mausoleum
- Child care education centers, day nurseries, other than those permitted as principal uses and structures, when not operated by a public agency
- Communication towers - standard process
- Country inns
- Drive-in theaters
- Family care homes, foster homes or group homes
- Fiber-optics transmission facilities
- Firewood preparation facility
- Home occupations, including those conducted outside the principal structures
- Hospitals and sanitariums
- Marinas, noncommercial and community boat docks
- Maternity homes
- Museums and art galleries when not operated by a public agency
- Private schools having curriculums similar to public schools
- Private sewage treatment facilities
- Recreation facilities other than those of an outdoor nature
- Recreational campgrounds
- Recreational resort community
- Religious uses
- Repair of agricultural equipment
- Shelter for farm employees
- Storage and maintenance installations for public utilities
- Television or other broadcasting stations
- Wildlife rehabilitation centers
Extracted standards
15 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Amplified music setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from residence500 ft
No outdoor amplified music shall be permitted within five hundred (500) feet of any residence
- Hours of operation
Such activities shall be carried on only between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and sunset;
- Farm stand hours of operation
open for business except between 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m.
- Maximum attendance for agritourism250 persons
Agritourism activities at which no more than two hundred fifty (250) persons, exclusive of residents of the property and employees at the activity, are in attendance at any one time shall be allowed as principal uses
- Maximum farm stand heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.12 ft
No farm stand or other building or structure in which merchandise is offered for sale to the general public shall be: (i) greater than twelve (12) feet in height, as measured from ground level to eaves
- Maximum patrons for accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. activity1 persons
the activity is specifically designed or conducted to permit no more than one (1) patron, customer, or pupil to be present on the premises at any one time
- Maximum patrons for marriage rites8 persons
ministers, marriage commissioners and other persons authorized by law to perform the rites of marriage may permit a maximum of eight (8) persons on the premises at any one time
- Maximum sign area for agritourism16 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Signs shall be nonilluminated and limited to one sign not exceeding sixteen (16) square feet in area;
- Maximum accessory useAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. sign area1 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
one (1) nonilluminated sign not more than one (1) square foot in area mounted flat against the residence
- Parking setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from residence100 ft
Vehicular parking shall not be allowed on any public street, or within one hundred (100) feet of any residence
- Farm stand setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from street50 ft
located within fifty (50) feet of the property line abutting any street
Signage
- Maximum sign area16 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
one sign not greater than sixteen (16) square feet in area at each principal entrance or frontage of any use shall be permitted
- Maximum sign area for farm/ranch32 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Signs displayed on any farm or ranch engaged in the production, cultivation, growing, harvesting or processing of agricultural products, or the raising or keeping of livestock; provided that no such sign shall exceed thirty-two (32) square feet in area
- Maximum sign area for religious uses32 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
except for religious uses, for which the maximum area per sign shall be thirty-two (32) square feet.
- Maximum sign area for sale/lease/rent32 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
A maximum of four (4) signs located on property for sale, lease or rent, provided that no such sign shall exceed thirty-two (32) square feet in area
From the ordinance
The allowable density on each tract of land as existing on the effective date of this ordinance [June 28, 1994] shall be one (1) dwelling unit for each fifteen (15) acres of land... The maximum height for single-family dwellings in subdivisions of ten (10) or more lots created after the date of adoption of this subsection, or for single-family dwellings having side and rear yard setbacks at least five (5) feet greater than required, shall be forty-two (42) feet.
Use details
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"Fraternity and sorority houses, student dormitories and student centers; provided that they be located within a one-mile radius of a college or university",
"Recreation and amusement facilities of an outdoor nature other than those specified as principal uses, which may be partially or temporarily enclosed on a seasonal basis, with the approval of city council"
]
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