Virginia Beach, Virginia · District
R-5R
R-5R Residential Resort District
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right11
- Agricultural and horticultural uses except for the keeping of poultry, livestock, fish ponds and fish hatcheries
- Child care centers and child care education centers in conjunction with public or private elementary schools
- Colleges and universities, public
- Columbarium located in cemetery
- Dwellings, duplex
- Dwellings, semidetached
- Dwellings, single-family
- Public parks, recreational areas, botanical and zoological gardens, and other public buildings and uses
- Public utility installations and substations
- Schools, public
- Wind energy conversion systems, roof-mounted
Conditional / special use23
- Borrow pit
- Cemetery, columbarium, crematory and mausoleum
- Communication towers-standard process
- Community centers
- Day-care centers and child care education centers in religious uses
- Dormitories, student
- Family day-care homes
- Foster homes
- Fraternity and sorority houses
- Group homes
- Home-based wildlife rehabilitation facilities
- Home occupation
- Hospitals and sanitariums
- Housing for seniors and disabled persons
- Kennels, residential
- Marinas, noncommercial and community boat docks
- Museums and art galleries, private
- Private sewage treatment facilities
- Religious uses
- Schools, private when having academic curriculums similar to public schools
- Storage or maintenance installation for public utilities
- Television or other broadcasting stations
- Theaters for live production
Accessory6
- Bees
- Swimming pools, boat houses, piers
- Roadside stand for sale of agricultural products
- Accessory activity operated for profit in a residential dwelling unit
- Temporary family health care structures
- Rental of rooms in a dwelling or the entire dwelling thirty (30) consecutive days or more
Extracted standards
3 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Maximum accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure floor area20 pct
in all residential zoning districts, except for R-30 and R-40, do not exceed five hundred (500) square feet of floor area or twenty (20) percent of the floor area of the principal structure, whichever is greater.
- Maximum accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure floor area500 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
in all residential zoning districts, except for R-30 and R-40, do not exceed five hundred (500) square feet of floor area or twenty (20) percent of the floor area of the principal structure, whichever is greater.
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.
Uses and structures which are customarily accessory and clearly incidental and subordinate to principal uses and structures and where such accessory structures do not exceed the height of the principal structure
From the ordinance
The following chart lists those uses permitted within the R-40 through R-2.5 Residential Districts... Except as provided in subsection (b), the maximum height for all buildings and structures shall be thirty-five (35) feet.