Dimensional standards
Lot
- Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built.
- 30,000 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (0.69 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)
- Minimum lot depth
- 200 ft
Height & bulk
Housing
Servicing
- Applies near
- James River
- Geographic extent
- Areas generally near the James River and its tributaries where such development exists or is planned.
Uses
Permitted by right20
- Greenhouse, Private
- Roadside Stand
- Stable, Private
- Accessory Apartment
- Dwelling, Single-Family, Detached
- Family Day Care Home
- Group Home
- Home Occupation, Community
- Kennel, Private
- Temporary Emergency Housing
- Cemetery
- Community Center
- Community Recreation
- Park and Ride Facility
- Public Park and Recreational Area
- Religious Assembly
- Utility Service/Minor
- Real Estate Office, Temporary
- Studio, Fine Arts
- Amateur Radio Tower
Conditional / special use18
- Dwelling, Multifamily Conversion
- Manufactured Home, Class A
- Manufactured Home, Temporary Residence
- Windmill
- Condominium
- Dwelling, Single Family, Attached
- Dwelling, Two-Family
- Multifamily Dwelling
- Townhouse
- Crisis Center
- Day Care Center
- Educational Facility
- Public Facilities
- Utility Service/Major
- Convenience Store
- Marina
- Restaurant, General
- Alternate Discharge Sewage System
Extracted standards
2 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
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 principal building).
- 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 2,000 square feet unless a special use permit is approved by the BZA.
From the ordinance
The purpose of this district is to provide for vacation home development at an appropriate density and in appropriate locations. These areas are generally near the James River and its tributaries where such development exists or is planned.