Dimensional standards
Density
Height & bulk
Housing
Servicing
- Applies near
- various village centers
- Geographic extent
- Village centers: Bacon's Castle, Cabin Point, California Crossroads, Elberon, Poolesville, Runnymede, Scotland, Spring Grove
Uses
Permitted by right38
- Greenhouse, Private
- Roadside Stand
- Stable, Private
- Accessory Apartment
- Dwelling, Single Family, Detached
- Family Day Care Home
- Group Home
- Guest House
- Home Occupation, Community
- Temporary Emergency Housing
- Cemetery
- Club
- Community Center
- Community Recreation
- Cultural Service
- Day Care Center
- Post Office
- Public Facilities
- Public Park and Recreational Area
- Religious Assembly
- Rehabilitation Service
- Utility Service/Minor
- Bank
- Business Support Service
- Business or Trade School
- Construction Office, Temporary
- Medical Office
- Personal Improvement Service
- Personal Service
- Real Estate Office, Temporary
- Retail Sales
- Studio, Fine Arts
- Taxidermy
- Veterinary Hospital/Clinic
- Amateur Radio Tower
- Outdoor Gathering
- Parking Facility
- Reconstructed Wetland
Conditional / special use29
- Manufactured Home, Temporary Residence
- Office, General
- Communications Tower
- Boarding House
- Condominium
- Dwelling, Multifamily Conversion
- Dwelling, Single Family, Attached
- Dwelling, Two-Family
- Kennel, Private
- Multifamily Dwelling
- Townhouse
- Educational Facility
- Halfway House
- Nursing Home
- Agricultural Service
- Antique Shop
- Auction Establishment
- Bed and Breakfast
- Convenience Store
- Farmer's Market
- Flea Market
- Funeral Home
- Gasoline Station
- Marina
- Motor Vehicle Repair Service/Minor
- Restaurant, General
- Convenience Center
- Custom Manufacturing
- Alternate Discharge Sewage System
Extracted standards
10 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Frontage
Minimum frontage on a cul-de-sac: No less than 50 percent of minimum lot width of district.
Other
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure location
Accessory structures shall only be allowed in the side or rear yard (behind the front face of the principle building) with a side and rear yard setback of five feet, or if larger than 1,200 square feet, 25 feet.
- Front yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. averaging
Where the street frontage in a block, or within 600 feet of the lot in question, is partially already developed, the minimum front yard for a new building shall be the average of the existing front yards on either side thereof in the same block with a variation of five feet permitted; provided however that except as provided in development standards for specific uses no front yard in a residence district shall be less than 25 feet or need to be more than 50 feet under this provision.
- Landscaping requirement
Any part of the lot or project area not used for buildings or other structures, parking, loading and accessways, shall be landscaped with grass, trees, shrubs, or pedestrian walks.
- Maximum accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure size4 pct
Accessory structures shall not exceed four percent of the lot area not to exceed 5,000 square feet unless a special use permit is approved by the BZA.
- No exterior storage
Permitted stores, shops, offices or businesses shall be conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building and except for temporary display items as limited by these regulations there shall be no exterior storage of merchandise or materials unless these are enclosed within storage yard established and maintained in accordance with these regulations.
- Stormwater drainage
Provision shall be made for proper storm water drainage from parking and loading areas. Water shall not be permitted to drain from such areas onto adjacent property except into a natural watercourse or a drainage easement.
- Type A landscaped buffer for civic uses
Unless otherwise specified in this ordinance or through conditions established by the board of zoning appeals or the board of supervisors, a Type A landscaped buffer shall be established and maintained adjacent to any other property zoned RVC, other than parcels used or zoned for commercial or industrial use.
- Type B landscaped buffer for commercial/industrial uses
Unless otherwise specified in this ordinance or through conditions established by the board of zoning appeals or the board of supervisors, a Type B landscaped buffer shall be established and maintained adjacent to any other property, other than parcels used or zoned for commercial or industrial use.
- Warehousing not permitted
No commercial warehousing, wholesaling, of jobbing or killing of animals or poultry shall be carried on and no merchandise shall be stored other than to be sold at retail on the premises, and provided further, that no more than 50 percent of the floor area of any building shall be used for the storage of merchandise.
From the ordinance
The purpose of this district is to provide for residential, civic and commercial development in those crossroad communities around the county that are unincorporated and have historically served the surrounding rural areas.