Albemarle County, Virginia · General provision
Sec. 10.2.1, 10.2.2, 10.3.1, 10.3.2
Agricultural ResidentialAll Albemarle County districts0
Dimensional standards
Density
- Maximum density
- 0.05 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.
- 914,760 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (21 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)
Servicing
- Geographic extent
- Rural areas of Albemarle County
Uses
Permitted by right7
- Farm brewery uses, events, and activities authorized by section 5.1.57(a), (b), and (c)(2)
- Events and activities at agricultural operations authorized by right under section 5.1.58(d)
- Farm distillery uses, events, and activities authorized by section 5.1.59(a), (b), and (c)(2)
- Group home (reference 5.1.07)
- Farmers' markets (reference 5.1.47 a—e)
- Religious assembly use with assembly of not more than 200 persons
- Solar energy facilities with a fenced area of 21 acres or less (reference 5.1.66)
Conditional / special use49
- Community center (reference 5.1.04)
- Clubs and lodges (reference 5.1.02)
- Fire and rescue squad stations (volunteer) (reference 5.1.09)
- Swim, golf, tennis or similar athletic facilities (reference 5.1.16)
- Private schools
- Energy and communications transmission facilities (reference 5.1.12)
- Child day centers (reference 5.1.06)
- Manufactured home subdivisions (reference 5.5)
- Horse show grounds, permanent
- Sawmills, planing mills and woodyards (reference 5.1.15)
- Commercial kennel (reference 5.1.11)
- Veterinary services, animal hospital (reference 5.1.11)
- Private airport, helistop, heliport, flight strip (reference 5.1.01)
- Day camp, boarding camp (reference 5.1.05)
- Sanitary landfill (reference 5.1.14)
- Country store, Class B (reference 5.1.45)
- Commercial fruit or agricultural produce packing plants
- Flood control dams and impoundments
- Restaurants, taverns, and inns (historic or nonconforming)
- Divisions of land as provided in section 10.5.2.1
- Boat livery
- Permitted residential uses as provided in section 10.5.2.1
- Cemetery
- Crematorium
- Religious assembly use with assembly of more than 200 persons
- Gift, craft and antique shops
- Public garage
- Exploratory drilling
- Hydroelectric power generation (reference 5.1.26)
- Borrow area, borrow pit not permitted under section 10.2.1.18
- Convent, Monastery (reference 5.1.29)
- Temporary events sponsored by local nonprofit organizations (reference 5.1.27)
- Agricultural Museum (reference 5.1.30)
- Theatre, outdoor drama
- Off-site parking for historic structures or sites (reference 5.1.38) or off-site employee parking for an industrial use in an industrial zoning district (reference 5.1.39)
- Animal shelter (reference 5.1.11)
- Tier III personal wireless service facilities (reference 5.1.40)
- Historical centers, historical center special events, historical center festivals (reference 5.1.42)
- Special events (reference 5.1.43)
- Farm worker housing, Class B (more than ten occupants or more than two sleeping structures) (reference 5.1.44)
- Sale of gasoline and other fuels in conjunction with a country store, Class A or Class B (reference 5.1.45)
- Farm winery uses, events, and activities authorized by section 5.1.25(c)(3)
- Farmers' markets (reference 5.1.47 a—d)
- Farm brewery uses, events, and activities authorized by section 5.1.57(c)(3)
- Events and activities at agricultural operations authorized by special use permit under section 5.1.58(d)
- Farm distillery uses, events, and activities authorized by section 5.1.59(c)(3)
- Solar energy facilities with a fenced area of greater than 21 acres (reference 5.1.66)
- Landscape contractors on lots three acres or more in size that do not otherwise qualify as an authorized home occupation under section 5.2A
- Battery energy storage facilities (reference 5.1.66)
Extracted standards
4 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Maximum aggregate acreage for by-rightBy rightPermitted outright: if the plans meet the written rules, permission cannot be withheld. divisions31 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
The aggregate acreage devoted to such lots or development shall not exceed 31 acres
- Maximum density in rural preservation development1 du per 21 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
Density shall not exceed one dwelling unit per 21 acres
- Maximum number of lots by rightBy rightPermitted outright: if the plans meet the written rules, permission cannot be withheld.5 lots
Divisions of land shall be permitted as provided hereinabove; except that no parcel of land of record on the date of the adoption of this ordinance may be divided into an aggregate of more than five parcels
- Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built. for parcels created under section 10.3.221 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
there shall be permitted by right any division of land into parcels each of which shall be 21 acres or more in area
From the ordinance
The following uses shall be permitted by special use permit in the RA district, subject to the applicable requirements of this chapter