Prince William County Unincorporated, Virginia · District
A-1
Agricultural District
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right4
Conditional / special use35
- Adaptive reuse of a historic building
- Adult day center
- Airport, heliport, private airstrip
- Bed and breakfast
- Cemetery
- Child care facility
- Civic club
- Commercial kennels
- Commercial recreation facility, outdoor, excluding laser tag facilities
- Commercial riding facility, equestrian center, polo club, or recurring horse show or equestrian events
- Community operated parks, clubhouses, swimming pools, racquet ball and tennis courts, health and fitness facilities, and other recreational or civic facilities
- Country club
- Extraction of mineral resources
- Farmer's market/flea market
- Garden center
- Horse racetrack
- Home business
- Landscaping service
- Lodging house (on lots smaller than ten acres)
- Mortuary, funeral home, crematory accessory to a cemetery
- Paintball facilities
- Petting farm
- Private camp
- Private school
- Recovery home
- Religious institution or place of religious worship
- Retail sales/breeding of exotic birds and miniature animals
- Rifle, pistol, skeet, trap, archery range, indoor shooting ranges
- Rural home business
- Satellite parking lot for religious institution
- Shelters for the homeless
- Solar energy facility
- Storage or disposal of nonagricultural excavation material
- Travel trailer and camp park
- Veterinary hospital
Extracted standards
3 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- AgriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them. accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.5 ft
An agriculturally-related accessory structure shall be located no closer than five feet from the right-of-way on lots greater than three acres.
- HeightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. exception for agriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them. secondary uses
The height limitations identified in section 32-300.05 shall not apply to structures for secondary uses to bona fide agricultural uses on lots ten acres or greater.
- Site plan required for commercial uses
No commercial use, except for agricultural, fishery or forestry uses, shall be commenced in the A-1 district without approval of a site plan.
From the ordinance
Minimum lot size for new lots shall be ten acres... All buildings shall be set back at least 35 feet from the front lot line, all streets, and all private access easements or rights-of-way.