Albemarle County Unincorporated

A manufactured home park shall consist of five or more contiguous acres. ... Each manufactured home lot shall be provided with an individual connection to an approved sanitary sewage disposal system and an individual connection to an approved central water supply or other potable water supply.

A manufactured home subdivision may be established by the Board of Supervisors by special use permit. A manufactured home subdivision shall have at least ten lots.

Floodplain means any land area susceptible to being inundated by water from any source.

Managed slopes means slopes of 25 percent or greater depicted as a managed slope on the map entitled Steep Slopes Overlay District, adopted by the Board of Supervisors on March 5, 2014.

Primary surface means, for the purposes of the airport impact overlay district, a surface longitudinally centered on a runway. The primary surface for Runway 3-21 extends 200 feet beyond each end and is 1,000 feet wide.

Nearby lot means, for the purposes of calculating shared parking, a lot within one-quarter mile of the lot with which parking will be shared. Within the Downtown Crozet District (DCD), the term nearby lot means a lot within the DCD or a lot within one-quarter mile of the lot with which parking will be shared.

Infill means, as used in section 4.19, when 40 percent or more, in the aggregate, of the residentially zoned lots fronting on a street are developed within 500 feet in both directions of the subject lot having less than 120 feet of frontage on the same street at the time that it is developed...

Gross residential density means the total number of dwelling units within a development divided by the gross residential area and expressed in dwelling units per acre.

Floor area ratio is determined by dividing the gross floor area of all buildings on a lot by the area of that lot.

Gross floor area means the sum of the total horizontal areas of the several floors of all buildings on a lot, measured from the interior faces of exterior walls.

Green space means an area of land covered in grass or other vegetation or a water feature required by this chapter.

Nighttime means, for the purposes of noise regulation, that period of a day beginning at 10:00 p.m. and ending at 7:00 a.m., each day of the week.

Full cutoff luminaire means an outdoor light fixture shielded in such a manner that all light emitted by the fixture, either directly from the lamp or indirectly from the fixture, is projected below the horizontal plane.

Home occupation sign means a sign on the premises of a dwelling unit that has an authorized Class B or major home occupation that does not exceed four square feet in sign area and only states the name of the person occupying the dwelling and identifies the product or service offered by the home occupation.

Family means: 1. An individual; or 2. Two or more persons related by blood, marriage, adoption, or guardianship, and/or not more than two unrelated persons living together as a single housekeeping unit in a dwelling or dwelling unit; or 3. For the purposes of this ordinance the following shall not apply to the R-1, R-2 and R-4 residential districts: a group of not more than six persons not related by blood, marriage, adoption or guardianship living together as a single housekeeping unit in a dwelling or dwelling unit.

Group home means, for the purposes of this chapter, a residential facility in which no more than eight individuals with mental illness, intellectual disability, or developmental disabilities reside with one or more resident or nonresident staff persons and which is licensed by the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services or other licensing authority.

Homestay means an accessory residential use providing transient lodging and rooms for dining and meetings for use by homestay guests provided that the dining and meeting rooms are subordinate to the homestay use. A homestay use may offer no more than five guest rooms for lodging.

Hotel means a use composed of transient lodging provided within one or more buildings having six or more guest rooms that provides transient lodging.

Manufactured home means a structure subject to federal regulation which is transportable in one or more sections; is eight body feet or more in width and 40 body feet or more in length in the traveling mode, or is 320 or more square feet when erected on site; is built on a permanent chassis; is designed to be used as a single-family dwelling, with or without a permanent foundation, when connected to the required utilities; and includes the plumbing, heating, air-conditioning, and electrical systems contained in the structure.

Multiple-family dwelling means a structure arranged or designed to be occupied by more than two families, the structure having more than two dwelling units.